Standing Before the Lord

Contritum est cor meum in medio mei, contremuerunt omnia ossa mea, factus sum quasi vir ebrius et quasi homo madidus vino a facie Domini, et a facie verborum Sanctorum ejus. Considerato vultu omnipotentis Dei, hoc est, Patris, et considerato vultu Filii, qui juxta Apostolum splendor illius gloriae appellatur, et forma substantiae Dei. Propheta et animo et corpore perhorrescit, et intelligit esse se nihili, secundum quod et in alio loco dicitur: Ut jumentum factus sum apud te. Sive victimam conscientiae et humilitatis suae offert Deo juxta illud quod in Psalmis legitur: Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus, cor contritum et humiliatum Deus non spernit. Ossa autem quae contremuerunt, sive commota sunt, illa intelligamus, de quibus idem David canit: Omnia ossa mea dicent, Domine, quis similis tui ? Factus est quasi ebrius, et quasi homo madidus, sive soporatus vino, nullam habens intelligentiam, nullamque sapientiam. Dominus enim novit cogitationes hominum, quoniam vanae sunt. Si autem hoc ita est, ubi sunt qui perfectam in homine justitiam praedicant? Quod si responderint de sanctis hoc se dicere, non de seipsis, certe nullum puto sanctiorem esse Jeremia, qui virgo, Propheta, sanctificatusque in utero, ipso nomine praefigurat Dominum Salvatorem. Jeremias enim interpretatur, Domini excelsus.  Sanctus Hieronymus, Commentariorum In Jeremiam Propheta, XXIII, IX

'My heart is crushed within me, all my bones tremble, I am made like a man drunk and like a man drenched with wine before the face of the Lord and before the face of his Holy Words.' 1 Having considered himself before the face of the omnipotent God, that is the Father, and having considered himself before the face of the Son, which the Apostle names the splendour of His glory and the form of God's substance,2 the Prophet shudders in mind and body and understands himself as nothing, according to which it is said in another place, ' I was made like a beast before you,' 3 or he offers to God the sacrifice of his conscience and humility, according to which it is read in the Psalms: ' The sacrifice to God is a troubled spirit, a heart crushed and humbled God does not spurn. 4 The bones which tremble or are shaken, we may understand them by that which David sings: 'All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like you' 5 He is made like a drunkard, and like one drenched with wine, that is, stupefied by wine, not having intelligence nor wisdom. 'The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.' 6 If indeed this is so, where are they who preach that righteousness can be perfect in a human? 7 But if they answer that they speak of the saints and not of themselves, certainly I would think none more saintly than Jeremiah, who as a virgin, a prophet, one sanctified in the womb,  prefigures by his very name the Lord Saviour. For Jeremiah interpreted is 'exalted of the Lord.' Saint Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah, 23.9  1 Jer 23.9 2 Heb 1.3 3 Ps 72.23 4 Ps 50.19 5 Ps 34.10 6 Ps 43.11 7 Pelagians