Joseph ben Samuel Tob Elem, Songs of Exile — Hymn of Weeping
“ Hide Thee not at my sighing, at my cry. O moon Tebeth! exceeding is my sum Of pain therein, when His face changed for me. Yet, though I sinned, His goodness I shall see, Who saith: "Ye waves, but so far shall ye come." ”
Joseph ben Samuel Tob Elem, Songs of Exile — Hymn of Weeping
“ For these things I have scattered o'er me dust: O that a shaft had pierced mine heart that day! For such woe I would dig my grave;—but nay, I wrought rebelliously: the Lord is just. I call Thee, Thou Who hast repentance nigh For mine affliction; lo! my praying heed ”
