Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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LET THY FAVOUR PASS TO ME

Let Thy favour pass to me,
Even as Thy wrath hath passed;
Shall mine iniquity for ever
Stand between me and Thee?
How long shall I search
For Thee beside me, and find Thee not?
O Dweller amid the wings of the Cherubim
That are outspread over Thine Ark,
Thou hast enslaved me unto strangers
Ps. 80,16. While I am the man of Thy right hand.

My Redeemer! to redeem my multitudes
Rise and look forth from Thine abiding place.