Kebra Nagast

And then he made a circuit and said, " Behold Zion, behold salvation, behold the one who rejoiceth, behold the splendour like the sun, behold the one adorned with praise, behold the one who is decorated like a bride, not with the apparel of fleeting glory, but the one who is decorated with the glory and praise which are from God, whom it is meet that [men] shall look upon with whom [men] shall desire desire and shall not forsake above all things and shall not reject whom [men] shall whom [men] shall love willingly and shall not hate and shall not keep afar off. We will approach willingly draw nigh unto thee, and do not thou withdraw far ; ; ; from us we will support ourselves upon thee, and do not thou let us slip away we will supplicate thee, and do not thou be deaf to us we will cry out to thee hear thou our cry in all that we ask of thee, and desire not to withdraw thyself from us, until thy Lord cometh and reigneth over thee for thou art the habitation of ; ; ; ; ; the God of heaven." Thus spake David the King, the son of Solomon, King of Israel. For the spirit of prophecy descended upon him because of his joy, and he knew not what he said and he was like Peter and John on the top of And they all marvelled and said, son of a prophet, is he to be numbered the This, " the among prophets ? Mount Tabor. 1 " 55. How THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIA REJOICED And [the people of Ethiopia] took flutes, and blew horns, and [beat] drums, and [played on] pipes, and the Brook of Egypt was moved and astonished at the noise and with them were and shouts of gladness. And their idols, which they had made with their hands and which were in the forms of men, and dogs, and cats, fell down, and the high towers (pylons or obelisks ?), and also the of their songs and their rejoicings ; mingled outcries 1 82 Matthew xvii, 4 ; Luke ix, 33.