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Goya, Black Paintings, Heads in a Landscape
Heads
in a Landscape


Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the LORD your God. It shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it ... and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but ... the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. And ... you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.


Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, 5th Movement, The Witches Sabbath
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Conducted by Pinchas Steinberg