Dan Lukiv

A Pronouncement That Habakkuk the Prophet Received, poetry Dan Lukiv

An excerpt // Chapter 2. // Filled with themselves, / The seas rejoice, / Like fountains overflowing // With clean water, / Like lips that speak / Out of a pure heart, // Like a child who states truth / When others lie- / O the knowledge of Jehovah // Fills the earth, / As green grass spreads out / Its hands to fill the meadow, // See, cedars fill the forests / Of Lebanon; how they / Rejoice about their glorious // Size, about the God who / Crafted the little frog / That leaps, // The crab that scurries / Across wet sand, / The swallow that chirps // About kindness, / The lion that roars, / The child who kisses his // Mother's cheek, / The mountain that covers itself / With new snow- // See, / The knowledge of Jehovah / Fills the land with song.