On that day,
Yahweh’s shoot will be
for beauty and for splendour,
And the country’s fruit
for majesty and for glory for Yisra’el’s escape group.
What remains in Tsiyyon,
what is left in Yerushalaim –
‘Sacred’ will be said of it,
everyone who’s been written down for life in Yerushalaim.

If the Lord has washed away
the filth of Tsiyyon’s daughters,
And cleanses from within it
the shed blood of Yerushalaim,
By a spirit of the exercise of authority
and by a spirit of burning away,
Yahweh will create over the entire establishment of Mount Tsiyyon,
and over its meeting place,
A cloud by day, and smoke,
and a brightness of flaming fire by night.
Because over all the splendour will be a canopy,
and it will be a bivouac,
For shade by day from the heat,
and for shelter and for a hiding place from storm
and from rain.

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

Be thou a bright flame before me,
Be thou a guiding star above me
Be thou a smooth path below me
Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me
Today – tonight -forever
Amen.

St Columba