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SONGS OF EXILE
DIRGE
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The Author is doubtful.
Stanza 1, line 1, Isaiah li, 21; line 3, "make thee bald," Micah i, 16.
Stanza 3, line 13, 1 Kings vi, 21; line 14, 1 Kings vi, 4. The Targum Jonathan ben Uzziel paraphrases this verse in accordance with tradition: "And they made for the house windows wide outwardly and narrow inwardly." The tradition was that while ordinary windows were constructed by cavities in the walls cut at an angle widening inwardly to admit the rays of light into the building, the windows of the Temple were cut in the opposite way to suggest that the Temple was the true source of light.
Stanza 5, line 3, Jeremiah xlviii, 34; line 4, Jeremiah xlviii, 21; line 7, Psalm cxxxvii, 8.
Stanza 7, lines 1, 3, Micah vii, 8.
