Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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UNTIL DAY AND NIGHT SHALL CEASE

(For rhymed version see page 167)

The sun and moon, these minister for ever;

The laws of day and night come never to an end.

Given as signs are they to Jacob's seed,

That they shall ever be a nation, that they
shall not be cut off.

If with the left hand He should thrust them
off, with the right hand doth He draw
them nigh.

Let them not say, י ' 'Tis desperate ",at the
time of their ruin;

Let them only believe they are eternal, and
that

They shall not cease until day and night shall
cease.