These people are waterless springs,
and mists propelled by a storm,
for whom the gloom, that is the darkness,
has been kept.
For speaking boastful words of folly,
they ensnare
by fleshly desires
by sensuality
those who are barely escaping
from those who live in error,
promising freedom to them
they are slaves of corruption.
Because
whatever/ whoever defeats one,
to this, one is enslaved.

O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

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