Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

By me the foot of them that seek me is held
up from slipping;

By me the hand of them that love me mounteth
up above the wealthy.

Mine is strength and mine is glory and mine
a robe of honour;

Mine is light like a sun that waneth not
towards evening.

Mine are the searchings out of counsel which
cannot be likened to fine gold;

Mine dignity and royalty, befitting them that
take hold on me;

Mine are the precious things, laid up for the
upright;

Mine is the step to the fortress, built for a
stronghold.

jer. 18,15. Unto me they that walk upon the highway
bow them down;

Ps. 84,3. For me the soul longeth, yea even fainteth.

Ps. 127,2. Come ye, and eat not the bread of sorrows,

Turn into the garden that hath drunk its
fill of the glory of God.

Let not your heart incline after the helpers

job 9,13. Of Rahab, when these run whither they be
not bidden.

Cant. 1,8. By the shepherds י tents and their footprints,
feed your flocks;

Then will ye know that your foot hath never
strayed."

This is she whom they that know her have not
concealed;

From age to age hath she been an heritage in
their hand.