Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

7 JEHUDAH HALEVI

Thy prophets? and with whom thy minis-
trants¹ and thy singers?

isa. 2,18. He will change, He will wholly sweep away
all the realms of idols;

Prov. 27,24. Thy splendour is for ever, from age to age
thy crown.

Ps. 132.13. Thy God hath desired thee for a dwelling-
place; and happy is the man

Ps. 65,5. Whom He chooseth and bringeth near that
he may rest within thy courts.

Dan. 12,12. Happy is he that waiteth, that cometh nigh
and seeth the rising
Of thy light, when on him thy dawn shall
break—

ps. 108,5. That he may see the welfare of thy chosen,
and rejoice

Ezek. 16,55. In thy rejoicing, when thou turnest back unto
thine olden youth.

¹  Those of the Levites who served and those who sang
in the Temple.