their

And hunger, shall in anguish gnash their teeth

Who hast set in their place the cherubim,

An evil madness raving in their hearts,

With their own houses, when from heaven shall flow

Who put their trust in him. And thereupon

And equal were their portions. But the time

Betook them to their homes. And thereupon

Training their souls unto no useful work;

Nightly pursue their way by a pillar of fire

Shall cut from ten horns, and plant by their side

For warlike deeds. And also by their side

Shall their outrageous insolence lament,

Some for their bridegrooms, some for fallen sons.

With fetters by their foes of foreign tongue,

Of battle and come to their help in life.

And they shall see their goods and all their wealth

And they shall see their goods and all their wealth

Their hands to the broad heaven, shall begin

And faith and noblest thought within their hearts;

But they lift up their pure arms unto heaven,

And then their parents; and above all men

Their genuine fruit to men shall offer--wine,

Their flesh; and when these things are brought to pass,

Against the temple and raised up their spears.

The Immortal shall himself be their defender

Sweet word shall they send from their mouths in hymns:

Of honey and trees shall give their fruit,

Their manner, piety, and character

Their piety and murders consummate

Shall destruction on their great broad land.

No more a city when around their spears

In childish folly, in their violence

Exulting and in blood holding their bands;

Of their own labors and presumptuous thoughts

Shall over their own country, then reduced

Shall overthrow Syene; by their might

Their trophies for an age of evil men.

Who held within their breast a lawless mind;

Shall cease their speaking one against another,

And then, when they shall have bewailed their land

And to hold fast what God put in their charge.

Their herds of lambs and sheep and calves and goats

And in thee kings have their ill-fated mouth

From their foundations, and he set on fire

Forthwith a barbarous race shall make their way

Devour their parents, being by hunger worn,

Imperishable reason in their breast,

Shall into it their sacrifices bring.

Shall cultivate their Egypt, they will then

Begin their baseness, that the later things

Entering their souls and changing human hearts.

Which as the signal ensign of their rule

Is over you while flutes speak out their tones;

Are misers, who shall change their course of life

All-faithfully propitiate their God.

According to their cities. From the time

Nor children to their parents, on account

Of their impiety and their distress

Of their impiety and their distress

And cease from life when they complete their time.

An evil to the Persians for their pride,

And all their insolence shall come to naught.

And unto all men, and by their own works

And mortals shall their idols cast away

With a reed that they may fulfill their law;

Their former wickedness, that, being born

From their blood; for he is not by thy songs

Shall gnash with their teeth, [of the lawless souls

They sing their praises over idols dumb

Bestow their gifts on things which cannot aid,

Filling the feast, as if for their own dead.

And godless they their images call gods,

Shall plunder races for their many spoils,

Shall be mad and declare their liberty,

And during three years leave their servile blood.

Of valiant men shall put their neck again

Having a hundred, and their names shall show

According to their power of thoughts will write.

Nor shall they in that day make their escape

According to their evil deeds perform

Their wickedness thereafter, and one here

Ill-fated all their days; and of these last

Whom carrying in their hands the youth of Rome

Pour out their token for his friendship's sake

Upon their neck and irrigate the fields

Shall have the number seventy by their names,

The memory of their father, great king, rule,

And their names shall be honored; and they shall

The noble for their wealth, and, robber like,

Who gives to kings their power and takes away,

Shall perish while their cities are destroyed

They shall not make a conquest of their laws.

Alas, how many with their goods shall flee

Of Asia they shall treasure up their spoils,

Force their way. And then there shall be a flight

For these things, catching them by their deft plans.

Then they, forgetful of their father's words

And having their hands all prepared for war,

From out their scabbards the two-edged swords,

Felt for their royal and illustrious lord.