The Lament of Moses
"Moses then went up Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, looked over the promised land of Israel spread out before him, and died, at the age of one hundred and twenty. More humble than any other man (Num. 12:3), "there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom YHWH knew face to face" (Deuteronomy 34:10). The New Testament states that after Moses' death, Michael the Archangel and the Devil disputed over his body (Epistle of Jude 1:9)." - Moses in Wikipedia Moses gazed out from Mount Nebo upon the Promised Land and cried. "I will never know its air, perfumed with wild flowers. I will not drink from its springs gushing from beneath the thick roots of its brush. I will not plow its earth, growing figs full of purple flesh to be swallowed in one bite. I will never taste its milk or the oil of its crushed olives. O God, is it for suckling at the teat of a pagan woman? Or growing up in a sumptuous realm far from the quarters of my brothers and s...