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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By William Broome

Habakkuk’s Prayer

YET though the fig-tree should no burden bear,

Though vines delude the promise of the year;

Yet though the olive should not yield her oil,

Nor the parch’d glebe reward the peasant’s toil;

Though the tired ox beneath his labors fall,

And herds in millions perish from the stall;

Yet shall my grateful strings

Forever praise Thy name;

Forever Thee proclaim

The everlasting God, the mighty King of kings.