{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig20.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig20.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nThe despoiled and dispersed Thou shalt gather to Zion,\n \u00a0\u00a0Restoring the slaves who were sold without fee,\n And the priests to their ritual robes, while the scion\n \u00a0\u00a0Of families ruling shall once more be free\n \u00a0\u00a0To carol, high God, his thanksgiving to Thee.\nTo the heathen a banner to raise Thou wilt hasten,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou shalt strengthen and gird up the loins that we trust,\n And the suppliants whom Thy dispersal did chasten\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou wilt raise as of yore from captivity\u2019s dust,\n \u00a0\u00a0The breastplate of righteousness clothing the just.\nMy impudent foe seeks my life-faith to sever,\n \u00a0\u00a0To my face he enquires how long yet wilt thou wait,\n But I am afflicted, not cast off for ever,\n \u00a0\u00a0For my God is the help of the low in estate,\n \u00a0\u00a0Protecting the poor as He humbles the great.\nHis heritage shall to the exile be given,\n \u00a0\u00a0And a strong hand the sick and the punished replace,\n The abased and abandoned, by every fang riven,\n \u00a0\u00a0Shall their freshness renew by the patriarchs\u2019 grace\n \u00a0\u00a0And the strangers be scorched like a tropical place.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 17. The ...","type":"page"}