Set is her sun in the daytime,
Baffled and shaméd;
And their remnant I give to the sword
In face of their foes.[86]
In the following also the poet's heart is with his people even while he despairs of them. The lines, VIII. 14-IX. 1, of which 17 and 19b are possibly later insertions, are addressed to the country-folk of Judah and Benjamin:—
For what sit we still?
Sweep together,
And into the fortified cities,
That there we may perish!
For our God[87] hath doomed us to perish,