Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

I Kings 17.4-6. The ravens assembled as though called together

To give him his food.

And when he went up on high in a whirlwind,
And in a burning chariot of fire,

II Kings 2,12 Then turned Elisha, bitterly crying:

"My father, my father!" but he answered
him not.

job 38,30. The floods of Jordan were congealed,
11 Sam. 22,37. So that their feet slipped not;
Ps. 18,37. Also for Elisha stood they up—

They that looked on him saw and were amazed.

Those watching for the signs foretold—
How long, until they see the wondrous
happenings

When these marvels are wrought before them,
The work of the Lord which is terrible.¹

¹  The alphabet in acrostic reaches only to the letter ח.