'Let thine own heart be strong, for know this, O man, that in the day of adversity thy servants' help will fail thee. As for me, I have given to the lowly and I have strengthened the weak. I have breathed courage into hearts where there was none.
'Thee have I exalted from being a subject, and I have upheld thee, that men may fear before thee. I have adorned myself with fine linen, so that I was like the pure water flowers; I anointed myself with fragrant oil, as though it had been water.
'My remembrance lives in men's hearts because I caused the sorrow of the afflicted to cease; their cry was no longer heard. The conflicts are over, though they had been renewed again and again, for the land had become like a mighty one who is forgetful of the past. Neither the ignorant nor the learned man was able to endure.[1]
'Once after supper, when the shades of night had fallen, I went to seek repose. I lay down and stretched myself upon the carpets of my
- ↑ Words very suggestive as to the distractions and warfare of the preceding centuries, when the land had indeed seemed to have 'forgotten the past.'
