Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

89 JEHUDAH HALEVI

What can I say? Temptation doth pursue me
As doth an enemy, from youth to age;

And what hath fate for me if not Thy favour?
If Thou art not my lot, what is my lot?

I am despoiled and naked of good works,
Thy righteousness alone my covering—

But why make longer speech, why question
more?

O Lord, before Thee is my whole desire.