Because you have left your people alone,
Ya’aqob’s household.
Because they are full from the east,
yes, of diviners like the Pelishtites [Philistines],
and they abound in children of foreigners.
Its country’s full of silver and gold;
there’s no end to its treasures.
Its country’s full of horses;
there’s no end to its chariots.
Its country’s full of non-entities;
they bow low to the making of their hands,
to what their fingers made.
…So humanity bows down,
the individual falls down
– may you not carry them.

Come into the crag,
bury yourself in the earth,
Before the fearfulness of Yahweh,
from the dreadfulness of his majesty.
Lofty human eyes have fallen down,
the exaltedness of individuals has bowed down.
Yahweh alone will be on high on that day.

Because Yahweh of Armies
has a day against all majesty and exaltedness,
Against all that is high –
and it will fall down,
Against all the cedars of the Lebanon,
exalted and high,
against all the oaks of the Bashan,
Against all the exalted mountains,
against all the high hills,
Against every lofty tower,
against every fortified wall,
Against every Tarshish ship,
against all the impressive vessels.
Human loftiness will bow down,
people’s exaltedness will fall down.
Yahweh alone will be on high on that day;
non-entities – they will completely vanish.
People will go into caves in the crags,
into holes in the earth,
From before the fearfulness of Yahweh,
from the dreadfulness of his majesty,
when he arises to terrify the country.

On that day humanity will throw away
its silver non-entities
and its gold non-entities,
Which they made for themsleves
to bow down to,
to the moles and to the bats,
To come into the clefts in the crags,
into the crevices in the cliffs,
Before the fearfulness of Yahweh,
from the dreadfulness of his majesty.
when he arises to terrify the earth,
Get yourselves away from humanity,
that has breath in its nostrils,
because what is it to count for?

Goldingay, John; 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