Verse 13
O that my people had hearkened unto me, - Israel had walked in my ways - Nothing can be more plaintive than the original; sense and sound are surprisingly united. I scruple not to say to him who understands the Hebrew, however learned, he has never found in any poet, Greek or Latin, a finer example of deep-seated grief, unable to express itself in appropriate words without frequent interruptions of sighs and sobs, terminated with a mournful cry.
yl (m# ym( wl יהלכו בדרכי ישראי Lo ammi shomea li Yishrael bidrachi yehallechu ! He who can give the proper guttural pronunciation to the letter ע ain ; and gives the ו vau , and the י yod , their full Asiatic sound, not pinching them to death by a compressed and worthless European enunciation; will at once be convinced of the propriety of this remark.
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