MY SONGS IN THE HOUSE OF MY
PILGRIMAGE”
Poetry of the Bible
The earliest as well as the most sublime of poetic utterances known to man are found in the Scriptures. Before the oldest of the world’s poets had sung, the shepherd of Midian recorded those words of God to Job,—in their majesty unequaled, unapproached, by the loftiest productions of human genius:—
“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Or who shut up the sea with doors,
When it brake forth; ...
When I made the cloud the garment thereof,
And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
And prescribed for it My decree,