Retribution and Divine Justice
5Thus said the Lord:
Cursed is he who trusts in man,
Who makes mere flesh his strength,
And turns his thoughts from the Lord.
6He shall be like a bush in the desert,
Which does not sense the coming of good:
It is set in the scorched places of the wilderness,
In a barren land without inhabitant.
7Blessed is he who trusts in the Lord,
Whose trust is the Lord alone.
8He shall be like a tree planted by waters,
Sending forth its roots by a stream:
It does not sense the coming of heat,
Its leaves are ever fresh;
It has no care in a year of drought,
It does not cease to yield fruit. [ . . . ]
14Heal me, O Lord, and let me be healed;
Save me, and let me be saved;
For You are my glory.
15See, they say to me:
“Where is the prediction of the Lord?
Let it come to pass!”
16But I have not evaded
Being a shepherd in your service,
Nor have I longed for the fatal day.
You know the utterances of my lips,
They were ever before You.
17Do not be a cause of dismay to me;
You are my refuge in a day of calamity.
18Let my persecutors be shamed,
And let not me be shamed;
Let them be dismayed,
And let not me be dismayed.
Bring on them the day of disaster,
And shatter them with double destruction.
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Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
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