Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

91 JEHUDAH HALEVI

If I am even in youth
Too weak to do Thy will,
How then in old age
Can I yet hope and watch?

0 God, heal, I beseech Thee!
With Thee, O God, is the healing.

The day old age shall root me up, and my

strength forget me,
Do Thou not leave me, my God; do not
forsake me.

Crushed and weak,

1 sit and tremble every moment;
Naked and despoiled,

jer. 51,18. I go on my vain wanderings;

And I am polluted

Through my manifold sins and trans-
gressions.

Between Thee and me—iniquity which di-
videth us,

Holding me back from seeing Thy light with
mine eyes.

Incline Thou mine heart

To do the service of Thy kingdom,

And my thought

Make pure for knowledge of Thy God-
ship;

And in my time of pain
O stay Thou not Thine healing.