Page 30 - Your Extravagant Kindness

Then Godde's blazing presence pierced the clouds
with lightning, with hailstones.

The Holy One thundered from heaven;
the voice of the Most High,
whose lightning – a hurtling javelin –

broke the ranks.

Valleys in the sea were exposed,

earth's foundations were laid bare
by your rebuke, Holy One,
blasted by your exhalation.

Godde reached for me;
Godde drew me out of the tumult,
rescued me from destructive powers,

from oppression too strong for me alone.

Confronted, in the day of my disaster,
the Holy One was my support.

Godde has brought me out into the open.
Godde rescues me.

Godde delights in me.

The Holy One grants me integrity;
Godde sees my spiritual poverty and takes notice.
I have kept the ways of the Eternal

I am not guilty of turning away from Godde.
Let me never turn away from Godde's instruction
whose teachings are always before me.

Godde sees my poverty of spirit.
The Holy One alone is my righteousness,
therefore, blameless before Godde, I am protected from sin.