But with permanent commitment
I’m having compassion for you (your restorer, Yahweh, has said),
because this is Noah’s water to me.
In that I swore that Noah’s water
would not pass over the earth again,
So I’m swearing
not to be angry with you or to reprimand you.
Because mountains may move away, hills slip,
but my commitment will not move away from you.
My pact of well-being will not slip,
the one who has compassion for you, Yahweh, has said.

Humble, tossing, not comforted –
here I am, resting your stones in antimony.
I’ll found you with sapphires,
make chalcedony your pinnacles,
Your gateways into sparkling stones,
your entire border into delightful stones.
All your children will be Yahweh’s disciples;
great will be your children’s well-being.
In faithfulness you’ll establish yourself;
you can be far from oppression,
Because you will not be afraid,
and from shattering, because it will not come near you.
There, someone need be in dread
of nothing from me.
Who quarrels with you? –
he’ll fall to you.
There, I’m the one who created the smith
who blows into the fire of coals,
And who brings out a tool for his work,
and I’m the one who created the destroyer to ravage.
Any tool formed against you will not succeed;
you will show to be in the wrong every tongue
that arises with you for a judgement.

This is the domain of Yahweh’s servants,
their faithfulness from me (Yahweh’s declaration).

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

O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee,
the life of the souls that love thee,
and the strength of the wills that serve thee;
help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee;
so to love thee that we may fully serve thee,
whom to serve is perfect freedom.
Amen