{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig41.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig41.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nThe seven heavens cannot Thee enfold,\n \u00a0\u00a0Sustained by Thee, they do not Thee sustain.\n They hymn Thee since Thou madest them of old,\n \u00a0\u00a0And when they perish, Thou shalt still remain,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O mighty God!\nThe messengers of heaven Thee revere.\n \u00a0\u00a0They stand to praise Thee in Thine inmost shrine,\n Yet from beholding Thee they shrink in fear,\n \u00a0\u00a0For how behold the dazzling dread Divine?\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Lord, my God!\nWhat voice is this that singeth without cease\n \u00a0\u00a0And spends in song to Thee its nights and days?\n But Thou, omnipotence beyond increase,\n \u00a0\u00a0Art high\u2014I know\u2014uplifted over praise,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Lord, my God!\nSo great Thy majesty and manifold,\n \u00a0\u00a0How canst Thou lodge in tabernacle\u2019s span? p. 66\n Such glory no circumference can hold,\n \u00a0\u00a0For Thou art vastly mightier than man,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O Lord, my God!\nHe at whose feet celestial creatures creep\n \u00a0\u00a0A day of liberation will proclaim,\n And from all corners call his scattered sheep,\n \u00a0\u00a0However sorry-looking they or lame,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Lord, my God!","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 38. The ...","type":"page"}