| 6 συντάσσων χιόνι γίνου ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ χειμὼν ὑετός καὶ χειμὼν ὑετῶν δυναστείας αὐτοῦ 7 ἐν χειρὶ παντὸς ἀνθρώπου κατασφραγίζει ἵνα γνῷ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀσθένειαν 8 εἰσῆλθεν δὲ θηρία ὑπὸ σκέπην ἡσύχασαν δὲ ἐπὶ κοίτης 9 ἐκ ταμιείων ἐπέρχονται δῖναι ἀπὸ δὲ ἀκρωτηρίων ψῦχος 10 καὶ ἀπὸ πνοῆς ἰσχυροῦ δώσει πάγος οἰακίζει δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ ὡς ἐὰν βούληται 11 καὶ ἐκλεκτὸν καταπλάσσει νεφέλη διασκορπιεῖ νέφος φῶς αὐτοῦ 12 καὶ αὐτὸς κυκλώματα διαστρέψει ἐν θεεβουλαθω εἰς ἔργα αὐτῶν πάντα ὅσα ἂν ἐντείληται αὐτοῖς ταῦτα συντέτακται πα{R'} αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς 13 ἐὰν εἰς παιδείαν ἐὰν εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ ἐὰν εἰς ἔλεος εὑρήσει αὐτόν |
6 He it is that bids the snows fall over earth, and winter shower, and his fierce storms of rain. 7 No hand of man but is shut up close now under his seal, that owns him Master-workman of all; 8 cowers the beast in its lair, or lurks in its cave; 9 from his treasure-house in the north, tempest comes and cold. 10 At God’s breath the frost binds fast, till he bids the waters flow again in plenty. 11 And now the crops must have rain; far and wide the clouds scatter their rays of hope;[1] 12 this way and that they turn at the guidance of his will, to do their appointed task on earth, 13 among distant tribes, or here in his own land, let his mercy bid them appear where it may. |
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qui præcipit nivi ut descendat in terram,
et hiemis pluviis, et imbri fortitudinis suæ; 7
qui in manu omnium hominum signat,
ut noverint singuli opera sua. 8
Ingredietur bestia latibulum,
et in antro suo morabitur. 9
Ab interioribus egredietur tempestas,
et ab Arcturo frigus. 10
Flante Deo, concrescit gelu,
et rursum latissimæ funduntur aquæ. 11
Frumentum desiderat nubes,
et nubes spargunt lumen suum. 12
Quæ lustrant per circuitum,
quocumque eas voluntas gubernantis duxerit,
ad omne quod præceperit illis super faciem orbis terrarum: 13
sive in una tribu, sive in terra sua,
sive in quocumque loco misericordiæ suæ
eas jusserit inveniri. |