Listen to me, Ya’aqob,
Yisra’el whom I called.
I’m the one, I’m the first,
yes, I’m the last.
Yes, it was my hand formed earth;
my right hand spanned the heavens.
I’m going to call them
so they stand together.
Collect together, all of you, and listen –
who among them told of these things?

One to whom Yahweh is loyal will do what he wants to Babel,
and his arm to the Kasdites.
I, I’m the one who spoke,
yes, I called him,
I brought him and he will succeed in his journey.
Draw near to me,
listen to this.
Not from the first did I speak in hiddenness;
from the time it came to be, I was there.

Now the Lord Yahweh
has sent me, with his spirit.
Yahweh has said this – your restorer,
Yisra’el’s sacred one.
‘I am Yahweh your God,
the one who teaches you to succeed,
Who directs you in the way you should go –
if only you had heeded my orders.
Your well-being would have been like a river,
your faithfulness like the waves of the sea.
Your offspring would have been like the sand,
the people who went out from you like its grains.
Your name would not be cut off,
not be annihilated, from before me.’

Go out from Babel,
flee from the Kasdites!
Tell it with resounding voice,
make it heard.
Send it out to the end of the earth,
say, ‘Yahweh is restoring his servant Yisra’el.’
They were not thirsty
as he made them go through wastes.
He made water flow from the crag for them,
he split the crag and water gushed out.
There’s no well-being
(Yahweh has said) for faithless people.

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

Take from us,
O God, all pride and vanity,
all boasting and self-assertion,
and give us the true courage that shows itself in gentleness,
the true wisdom that shows itself in simplicity,
and the true power that shows itself in modesty.

Charles Kingsley