Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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O GOD, THY NAME

0 God, Thy name! I will exalt Thee, and

Thy righteousness I will not conceal.

1 have given ear, and I have trusted; I will

not question, I will not prove:
For how should a vessel of clay say unto its

moulder, What doest Thou?
I have sought Him, I have met Him—a tower

of strength, a rock of trust—
The radiant one, like shining light, unveiled,
uncovered!

Praised be He and glorified, exalted and extolled!

The beauty of Thy glory and the strength

of Thy hand the heavens declare,
When they dawn and when they wane and

when they bow their faces;
And angels walk amid the stones of fire and
water.

isa. 57,19. They testify to Thee, they thank Thee, Who
createst the fruit of the lips,
For Thou upholdest, and failest not—without

arms, without hands—
The depths and the heights, the Beings and
the Throne.

Praised be He and glorified, exalted and extolledI