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My Arabic is reduced by now to wielding a dictionary, so I took four well-known translations and decided to read them side by side, verse by verse, along with a transliteration and the original seventh-century Arabic.
Or take the infamous verse about killing the unbelievers.
In the second verse comes the line, "The wind and waves obey Him." Do they?
He was taking the voice of the people, the language of the people, elevating it into verse, and by doing so, ennobling the language and ennobling the people who spoke the language.
The Biblical verse is, "I cannot wear this for I have not proved it," meaning, "I've never worn armor before.
Around the height of the Nazi period, he started repeating the verse, "First they came for the communists, and I did nothing, did not speak out because I was not a communist.
For the minaret, I thought that the most relevant message to be put on a mosque should come from the Quran, so I picked this verse: "Oh humankind, we have created you from a male and a female, and made you people and tribe, so you may know each other."
He said, "In your exegesis, you must make it clear that every single verse of the Torah is a commentary, a gloss upon the Golden Rule."
"Make a difference between the unclean and the clean," the verse says, and so we did.
Is it better in verse?
I learned that a Décima is a type of verse that only exists in Spanish, and that it has 10 lines.
For example, suppose you're walking along a beach and come across a series of marks in the sand that spell out a verse of poetry.
Or you can whisper in the ear of a supposed terrorist some Biblical verse.
Then I ran across this simple verse that said, "At God's footstool to confess, a poor soul knelt, and bowed his head.
And about the same time I ran across this one verse, I ran across another one.
So, if you will indulge me, I will share quickly with you a bit of verse, which I memorized as a young girl at 16 years of age.
I love to write historical verse.
Many, like the enigmatic Rok runestone, were carved in verse, highlighting the tradition of Old Norse poetry.
Now, let me close my comments by telling you that whenever I feel something very deeply, it usually takes the form of verse.
A few years before he died, after he had resumed writing poetry, but in secret, he confessed to a friend in a letter that I found when I was doing my research: "I've written a verse.
Okay, we're going to start that verse again.
The only jarring note for me is the occasions in the film when the characters slip into verse.
Speaking verse spoils the narration and it was no needed, The verse is awful and spoils an other wise good script.
Legendary entertainer Maurice Chevalier was whisked back from retirement to sing the title song (which includes a verse in French) and Scatman's band indulge in a breezy number "Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat".
When the film finally shows Leonard semi-performing "Tower of Song" it's ruined by Bono taking a verse.
These words have been added by the translators and can be dropped & the mean of the entire verse changes.
A sappy, trite verse and that will be $3.99, thank you very much.
Then when we see portions of the play in rehearsal it is difficult to believe the director is not parodying things with a hopelessly miscast, misdirected travesty of actors who are unable to articulate or even understand the verse and directors who see the play through their own screwball interpretations.
John O'Conor reads the verse well as Friar Laurence though he never takes it anywhere.
The second alternate Gundam universe tale (G-Gundam being the first), Gundam Wing is yet another different view into the Gundam verse.
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