{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig50.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig50.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig50.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nWho is like unto Thee to uncover the deeps,\n \u00a0\u00a0And who hath Thy power to raise and cast down?\n Show Thy marvellous love to the captive who weeps,\n \u00a0\u00a0O Worker of wonders, of awesome renown!\nThy children belov\u00e8d intoned a new song\n \u00a0\u00a0When Egypt\u2019s proud host found a watery grave,\n There was praise from the saints in their jubilant throng\n \u00a0\u00a0When the wheels of the chariots clogged in the wave.\nThy fondlings storm-tossed were all weeping and tired\n \u00a0\u00a0When the great roaring flood-tides before them arose,\n But Thy hand led them safe to the haven desired\n \u00a0\u00a0And the waters returned, overwhelming their foes.\nThe chariots of Pharaoh and all that great host\n \u00a0\u00a0God cast in the billows and covered them o\u2019er,\n But His people trod sea-bottom, coast unto coast,\n \u00a0\u00a0He admonished the sea and it dried like the shore.\nThus, Lord, do Thou Zion support and uphold,\n \u00a0\u00a0Arise, for the hour of her grace is at hand,\n The day long appointed to sing as of old,\n \u00a0\u00a0God reigneth, His Kingdom forever shall stand.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 47. Pass...","type":"page"}