Yahweh said to me,
‘Get yourself a big panel
and write on it with an ordinary stylus,
“For Plunder Hurries, Loot Rushes”.’
I invoked as trustworthy witnesses for me
Uriyyahu the priest
and Zekaryahu ben Yeberekyahu.
I had sex with the prophetess
and she got pregnant
and gave birth to a son.
Yahweh said to me, ‘Call him “Plunder Hurries, Loot Rushes”’,
because before the boy knows how to call “father” and “mother”,
someone will carry off Dammeseq’s wealth
and Shomron’s plunder before the king of Ashshur.’
Yahweh spoke to me yet further:
Since this people has rejected the water of Shiloah,
which goes gently
(and been glad about Retsin and ben Remalyahu),
Therefore:
there, the Lord is bringing up against them the water of the River,
substantial,
vast (the king of Ashshur and all his splendour).
It will rise up over all its canyons and go up over its banks.
It will sweep through Yehudah,
flood as it passes over,
reach as far as its neck.
Its wings spread out
will be the filling of the breadth of your country.
God is with us:
Goldingay, John;The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
Steer the ship of my life, good Lord, to your quiet harbour,
where I can be safe from the storms of sin and conflict.
Show me the course I should take.
Renew in me the gift of discernment,
so that I can always see the right direction in which I should go.
And give me the strength and the courage to choose the right course,
even when the sea is rough and the waves are high,
knowing that through enduring hardship and danger in your name
we shall find comfort and peace.
Amen
Basil of Caesarea (c.329-379)