The Historical Poetry of the Ancient Hebrews volume 2
The Historical Poetry of the Ancient Hebrews volume 2
Michael Heilprin
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it is not to be mentioned — by Jehovah's name!" ' 40 38 'S'ru'hlm . . . Points back to verse 4, "they who are stretched on their couches " — that is, the revellers ; and it forms a play upon words with mirza'h ' (Keil, after others). 39 the pride of Jacob'] Samaria, which Isaiah, in a similar harangue (Is. Xxviii. 1), calls 'the proud crown, ' or ' the crown and pride, ' ' of Ephraim's drunkards. ' Zion is designated ' the pride of Jacob ' in Ps. Xlvii. 5 (4), and Babylon, in Is. Xiii. 19, ' th...e proud glory, ' or ' the glory and pride, ' 'of the Chaldees. ' ' The city and all in it, ' which follows, is thus in perfect parallelism with ' the pride of Jacob ' and ' his palaces. ' 40 This rendering, for which the translator is indebted to Dr. Samuel OF THE ANCIENT HEBREWS. 85 For, behold, Jehovah commands, and the large house is smitten into fragments, and the small house into shivers. Do horses run upon a rock, or does one plow it with oxen, 41 that ye turn right into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood ?
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