Israel Without The Mount Is --- Not Israel

Israel Without The Mount Is --- Not Israel

You will not be in Eilat and your flag’s pole at the Reed Sea

there – as a reed.

You betrayed your Mount, the supreme mountain in all the world,

Sacred of all the mountains in the world.

And you will not sit amongst the nations without this mount

being a backrest for you in the world.

Amongst the nations will be seated he for whom the mount supports his back.

In the secret of glory coincides this mount and in the secret of strength that is hidden in it

You lived in foreign land.

Those who generate hate will know that you are the sons of the supreme mount.

The psalms of your king are routine in their mouths

On a day of mourning for a death or a day when a king is crowned.

Without this glory, what is your worth in the universe?

Remove the North from the world and it will be a triangle.

Remove the East from the world and it will no longer exist.

Israel without the Mount is --- not Israel.

                                                           

                                                                                  Uri Tzvi Greenberg

                                                                                  Spring 1949

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