{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig25.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig25.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nMy breast I am smiting,\n My own sins indicting.\n \u00a0\u00a0How then canst Thou draw me\n \u00a0\u00a0To strife and thus awe me,\n And bring Me to judgment?\nMy branch hangeth ailing,\n My eyelid is failing,\n \u00a0\u00a0My aims to derision\n \u00a0\u00a0Are turned by the vision\n Of Thee bringing judgment.\nThe creditor calleth,\n The dread decree falleth,\n \u00a0\u00a0The awful day breaking\n \u00a0\u00a0God\u2019s creatures sets quaking\n In fear of His judgment.\nThrough Thy attributes preaching,\n Almighty, and teaching,\n \u00a0\u00a0O weigh aberration\n \u00a0\u00a0In the scale of salvation,\n Nor bring us to judgment.\nIn Thy merciful fashion\n Award us compassion,\n \u00a0\u00a0That man who but dust is\n \u00a0\u00a0May handle with justice\n The haters of judgment.\nLike a vapour evanished,\n Man is melted and banished,\n \u00a0\u00a0His birth is co\u00ebval\n \u00a0\u00a0With a harvest of evil,\n \u2019Tis Thou must bring judgment.\nWe await\u2014O behold us\u2014\n Thy love to enfold us.\n \u00a0\u00a0Did Thy warning not hasten\n \u00a0\u00a0Our impulse to chasten?\n For the Lord loveth judgment.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 22. Judg...","type":"page"}