The vision of Yesha’yahu ben Amots which he beheld concerning Yehudah and Yerushalaim in the days of Uzziyyahu, Yotam, Ahaz and Yehizqiyyahu [Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah], kings of Yehudah.

Listen, heavens, give ear, earth,
because Yahweh has spoken.

I reared children, I raised them,
but they – they rebelled against me.
An ox acknowledges its owner,
a donkey its master’s manger.
Yisra’el doesn’t acknowledge,
my people doesn’t show any discernment.

Hey, wrongdoing nation,
a people heavy with waywardness!
Offspring of people who deal badly,
devastating children,
they’ve abandoned Yahweh.
They’ve disdained Yisra’el’s sacred one,
they’ve become estranged, backwards.

Why will you be struck down more,
continue being defiant?
The whole head has come to sickness,
the whole mind is faint.
From the sole of the foot to the
head, there’s no integrity in it.
Bruise, blotch, fresh wound –
they haven’t been pressed out.
They haven’t been bandaged,
it hasn’t been softened with oil.
Your country’s a desolation,
your towns burned with fire.
Your land – in front of you,
foreigners are consuming it,
A desolation, quite overthrown by foreigners,
and Miss Tsiyyon [Zion] is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
Like a place to stay the night in a melon field,
like a town besieged.

Had Yahweh of Armies
not left us survivors, a few,
We’d have been like Sedom [Sodom],
we’d have resembled Amorah [Gomorrah].

Goldingay, John; 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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