You will say on that day,
I will confess you Yahweh,
because whereas you were angry with me,
your anger turned back and you comforted me.
There is God, my deliverance,
I will be confident and not be fearful,
Because Yah, Yahweh, is my vigour and might,
and he has been my deliverance.

You all will draw water with joy from the deliverance fountains.
And you all will say on that day,
confess Yahweh, call out in his name.
Make his deeds known among the peoples,
make mention that his name is on high.
Make music for Yahweh,
because he has acted in majesty;
this is to be acknowledged in the entire earth.

Bellow and resound, (inhabitant of) Tsiyyon,
because great among you is Yisra’el’s sacred one.

Goldingay, John; The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

Be thou a bright flame before me,
Be thou a guiding star above me
Be thou a smooth path below me
Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me
Today – tonight -forever
Amen.

St Columba

But a shoot will go out from Yishay’s [Jesse’s] stump,
a branch will fruit from his roots.
Yahweh’s breath will alight on him,
a breath with smartness and understanding,
A breath with counsel and strength,
a breath with acknowledgement and awe for Yahweh;
his scent (delight) will be awe for Yahweh.

He will not exercise authority by the seeing of his eyes,
he will not reprove by the hearing of his ears.
He will exercise authority with faithfulness for the poor,
and reprove with uprightness for the humble people in the country.
He will strike the country down with the club in his mouth,
with the breath from his lips he will put the faithless person to death. Faithfulness will be the belt round his hips,
truthfulness the belt round his thighs.

Wolf will reside with lamb,
leopard will lie down with goat,
Calf, lion and fatling together,
with a little boy driving them.
Cow and bear will pasture,
their young will lie down together.
Cougar, like cattle,
will eat straw.
A baby will play over the cobra’s burrow;
an infant will hold its hand over the viper’s hole.
People will not deal badly,
they will not devastate,
in all my sacred mountain.
Because the country will be full of the acknowledgement of Yahweh
like the water covering the sea.

On that day,
Yishay’s root which will be standing as a signal for peoples.
Nations will enquire of him,
and where he settles down will be [a place of] splendour.

On that day,
the Lord will again act, a second time,
with his hand to acquire the remainder of his people,
That remain from Ashshur,
from Misrayim,
from Patros,
from Kush [Sudan],
from Elam,
from Shin’ar,
from Hamat
and from the shores across the Sea.
He will lift up a signal to the nations,
and gather the men of Yisra’el who were driven out,
And the women of Yehudah who were scattered
he will collect from the four corners of the earth.
Ephrayim’s jealousy will go away,
and the people putting pressure on Yehudah will be cut off.
Ephrayim won’t be jealous of Yehudah,
and Yehudah won’t put pressure on Ephrayim.
They will fly against the back of the Pelishtites to the west;
together they will plunder the easterners,
The putting out of their hand: Edom and Mo’ab;
the people obeying them: the Ammonites.
Yahweh will dry up the tongue of the Misrayimite sea,
and wave his hand over the River with the heat of his breath.
He will strike it down into seven wadis,
and let people make their way in boots.
There will be a causeway for the remainder of his people
that remain from Ashshur,
As there was for Yisra’el
on the day it went up from the country of Misrayim.

Goldingay, John; The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great

Therefore the Lord Yahweh of Armies has said this:
Don’t be afraid, my people,
who dwell on Tsiyyon,
of Ashshur,
Which strikes you down with a club
and raises its mace against you in the manner of the Misrayimites (Egyptians).
Because in a very little while more,
my condemnation will finish,
and my anger will be towards their destruction.
Yahweh of Armies is lifting up a whip
against it like the striking down of Midyan at the Oreb Crag,
Like his mace over the sea,
and he will raise it in the manner of Misrayim.
And on that day its burden will depart from your shoulder,
Its yoke from upon your neck;
the yoke will be destroyed in the face of your beefiness.

He has gone against Ayat,
he has passed by Migron,
at Mikmas he put his equipment in place.
They crossed at the pass;
‘Geba will be lodging for us.’
The Height trembles,
Gib’ah of Sha’ul [Saul] has fled.
Bellow loudly, Bat-gallim,
heed, Layshah, answer, Anatot!
Madmenah has run away,
the inhabitants of Gebim have taken refuge.
More, today at Nob,
standing, he will wave his hand
At the mount of Miss Tsiyyon,
the hill of Yerushalaim.

There is the Lord Yahweh of Armies,
lopping off boughs with a crash.
The loftiest in height are being felled,
the tall ones fall down.
The forest thickets will be cut down with iron,
the Lebanon will fall by the august one.

Goldingay, John; Goldingay, John; Wright, Tom; Wright, Tom. The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

St Ignatius

Hey, Ashshur, my angry club –
and the mace in their hand is my condemnation.
Against an impious nation I send it;
I order it against a people towards which I am wrathful,
To seize spoil and to take plunder,
and to make it into something trampled, like mud in the streets.
But it doesn’t picture it this way;
its mind doesn’t think this way.
Because in its mind is to annihilate,
to cut off nations not a few.
Because it says, ‘My officers are kings, altogether, aren’t they?
Kalno’s like Karkemish, isn’t it, or Hamat like Arpad,
or Shomron like Dammeseq.
As my hand found the non-entity kingdoms
(and their images were more than Shomron and Yerushalaim) –
As I did to Shomron and to its non-entities,
so I will do to Yerushalaim and to its idols, won’t I?’
But when the Lord finishes all his action
against Mount Tsiyyon and against Yerushalaim:
‘I will attend to the fruit of the king of Ashshur’s big-headedness
and to the lofty splendour of his eyes.
Because he said, “By the energy of my hand I’ve acted,
by my smartness, because I have understanding.
I’ve removed peoples’ borders, I’ve plundered their treasures,
as a champion I’ve subdued inhabitants.
My hand found, as in a nest, the resources of peoples.
Like one gathering abandoned eggs,
I myself gathered the entire earth.
There was not one flapping a wing,
or opening its mouth and chirping.”’

Does the axe glorify itself over the one who chops with it,
or the saw magnify itself over the one who wields it,
As if the club wields the one who lifts it up,
as if the mace lifted up the one who is not made of wood?
Therefore the Lord Yahweh of Armies
will send off a wasting disease against his beefy ones.
Beneath its splendour it will burn,
with a burning like the burning of fire.
Yisra’el’s light will become fire,
its sacred one a flame.
It will burn up and consume its thorn and its thistle,
in one day.
The splendour of its forest and its farmland
it will finish off, soul and body.
It will be like the fading away of a sick person;
the remainder of the trees in its forest will be so few,
a boy could write them down.

But on that day,
no more will the remainder of Yisra’el,
The escape group from Ya’aqob’s household,
lean on the one that struck them down.
They will lean on Yahweh,
Yisra’el’s sacred one, in truth.
The remainder will turn back, the remainder of Ya’aqob, to God,
the God who is a strong man.
Though your people, Yisra’el, were like the sand of the sea,
It will be a remainder of it that will turn back;
a finishing is determined, overwhelming faithfulness.
Because a finish, a thing determined –
the Lord Yahweh of Armies is going to do it,
within the entire country.

Goldingay, John; Goldingay, The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

Grant, Lord,
that we may hold to you without parting,
worship you without wearying,
serve you without failing;
faithfully seek you,
happily find you,
and forever possess you,
the only God,blessed now and for ever.
Amen

St Anselm