Comes round to thee the cup of Jehovah’s right hand,

And foul shame[413] on thy glory.

For the violence to Lebānon shall cover thee,

The destruction of the beasts shall affray thee.[414]

For men’s blood, and earth’s waste,

Cities and all their inhabitants.[415]

FIFTH TAUNT-SONG (ii. 18–20).

What boots an image, when its artist has graven it,

A cast-image and lie-oracle, that its moulder has

trusted upon it,