JOAD.
And
what time was ever as fertile in miracles?
When
has God shown his power with more effect?
Will
you always have such eyes that see nothing,
Ingrate
people? What? The grandest miracles
Come
to your ears without shaking your hearts?
Must
I, Abner, remind you the course of
Famous
prodigies accomplished in our days?
Of
the celebrated disgrace of the tyrants of Israel,
Where
God delivered upon his every threat?
The
impious Achab destroyed, and the field that
He
had usurped by murder drenched in his blood ;
Near
to that fatal field, Jezebel immolated,
This
queen trampled under horses' hooves, the dogs
Quenching
their thirst with her inhuman blood,
And
the members of her hideous corpse torn off ;
The
crowd of lying prophets confounded as the
Flame
of the heavens came down upon the altar ;
Eli,
sovereign, in conference with the elements,
The
heavens shut up and made brazen by him,
And
the earth for three years without rain or dew ;
The
dead reanimating at the voice of Elisha—
Recognise
in these brilliant signs, Abner,
A
God who today is such as he has always been.
He
will, when it pleases him, let his glory break.
His
people are always present in his memory.
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