XI Nahum: Doom of Nineveh 182

RHAPSODY

I Jeremiah: Rhapsody of the Drought 193
II Habakkuk: Rhapsody of the Chaldeans 200
III Joel: Rhapsody of the Locust Plague 209
IV Jeremiah: The Hurt of the Daughter of my People
(A Rhapsodic Discourse) 222
V Micah: The LORD'S Controversy before the Mountains
(A Dramatic Morceau) 226
VI Prelude to the Rhapsody of Zion Redeemed 228
VII Zion Awakened (Vision III of the Rhapsody of
Zion Redeemed) 231

MASTERPIECES

OF

BIBLICAL LITERATURE

STORIES

I

JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN

And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of
Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen
years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad
with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's
wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father. Now
Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son
of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And his brethren
saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they
hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. And Joseph dreamed a
dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have
dreamed: for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my
sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came
round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. And his brethren said to
him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion
over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his
words. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren,
and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream; and, behold, the sun and
the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his
father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto
him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother
and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.

And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. And
Israel