Search -
The historical poetry of the ancient Hebrews (1880)
The historical poetry of the ancient Hebrews - 1880 Author:Michael Heilprin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (I. 2.) Hear, ye peoples all ; listen, O earth, and all that is therein ; and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy tem... more »ple." Persecuted, imprisoned, in darkness and solitude, the preacher of righteousness mourns over the perverseness of his time and his own fate, but waits with resignation for the day which is to justify and avenge him: (vn.) (1) Woe is me ! for I am as in the gathering of summer-fruit, as in the gleaning of the vintage : there is not a cluster to eat; not an early fig, which I long for. The last good man is gone from the earth, no upright mortal exists; all lie in wait for blood, brother hunts brother with a net. The evil-doer has but hands to soften;" This verse is, in meaning, unconnected with the rest of the chapter. The preceding quotation is an equally unconnected fragment. 6 to soften] Literally, to make good or pleasant. He disarms the hands of justice by bribes. Of. Is. xxxiii. 15: 'who shakes his hands from grasping bribes,' and Ps. xxvi. 10: 'their right hand is full of bribes;' and compare BTl . . . JTIH by with fir6 "by (H. Sam. xvin. 11), and CTl C'DD with c (Prov. xv. 13). the governor asks, the judge judges for reward, and the great man speaks out his soul's lust— and they twist the thing together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright sharper than a thorn-hedge. The day of thy watchmen," of thy visitation, is coming; men's confusion approaches. (5) Trust ye not in a friend, confide not in the most intimate; from her who rests on thy bosom keep the doors of thy mouth. For the son is vile toward his father, the daughter rises against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are ...« less