Resound, heavens, celebrate, earth,
break into sound, mountains.
Because Yahweh is comforting his people;
he will have compassion on his humble ones.

But Tsiyyon says, ‘Yahweh has abandoned me,
the Lord has put me out of mind.’
Can a woman put her baby out of mind,
so as not to have compassion on the child of her womb?
Yes, these may put out of mind,
but I – I cannot put you out of mind.
There, on my palms I engraved you;
your walls are in front of me continually.
Your children are hurrying the people who tore you down,
your devastators will go out from you.
Lift your eyes round and look,
they’re all collecting, they’re coming to you.
As I am alive (Yahweh’s declaration),
you will indeed put on all of them like jewellery,
bind them on like a bride.
Because your wastes, your devastations,
your country that was torn down –
Because now you’ll be too confined for your population,
while the people who swallowed you up go away.
The children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears,
‘The place is too narrow for me,
move over for me so I can settle down.’
You’ll say to yourself,
‘Who fathered these for me,
When I was bereaved and barren,
gone into exile and passing away?
These, who reared them,
there, when I remained alone,
these – where were they?’

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

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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