Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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RADIANCE

Day and night (praise the Lord!)

He maketh His face to shine over against my
face.

He kindled lamps of light, and the darkness
moved

On the day He rent open my windows in the
sky.

And He deigned to set of His radiance upon me,
Ps. 89,38. His spirit speaking within me by the hand of
Num. 12,7. my faithful.¹

i Sam. 3,20. By the way the light streamed He led me,
Deut. 33,2. The day He came from Seir and shone forth
from Sinai;

And when I tasted the honey of His law, I
spake:

Come ye now and see, for mine eyes are
full of light!