Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

104 JEHUDAH HALEVI

Isa. 31.5. Shielding, He will deliver: passing over, He will
rescue.

isa. 42.24. Who hath given Jacob for a spoil at the ends
of the world,

Forsaken like a ship in the heart of the sea—
lost without a pilot?

Est. 6,12. We lament in our exile with covered head and
mourning,

Ps. 137,1. By the rivers of Babylon.

Lam. 2,11. By the rivers of Babylon our eyes are consumed
with tears.

Ezek. 23.4. We have taken account of thee, Oholibah;
we have remembered Oholah.

Ps. 137,2. We have silenced the loud sounding cymbals,
we have hung up our harps:

Ps. 137,1. There we sat down, yea, we wept.

We have called to the wailing until even owls
have no semblance to us;

So many are our sighs for the burning of the
Shrine of the Most High.

Wide grew our breach, we were all but a
ruin—

Ps. 137.1. When we remembered Zion.

Let our right hand forget, if we forget thee,
Ps. 137,5 O Jerusalem!

The days of thy majesty and the goal of thy

release we have hoped from heaven.
We cast ourselves down before God, and our
eyelids run down with water—
Hos. 6.2. After two days He will revive us.