Song of Israel to God

MY Love! hast Thou forgotten

Thy rest

Upon my breast?

And wherefore hast Thou sold me

To be enslaved for aye?

Have I not followed Thee upon the way

Of olden time within a land not sown?

Lo! Seir and Mount Paran—nor these alone

Sinai and Sin—yea, these

Be all my witnesses.

For Thee my love was ever,

And mine

Thy grace divine;

And how hast Thou apportioned

My glory away from me?

Thrust unto Seir, pursued, sent forth to flee

Unto Kedar, nor suffered to abide;

Within the Grecian fiery furnace tried;

Afflicted, weighed with care,

With Media’s yoke to bear;—

And is there any to redeem but Thee?

Or other captive with such hope above?

Thy strength, O Lord; grant of Thy strength to me!

For I give Thee my love.