Sirach 36
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1HAue mercie vpon vs, ô Lord God of all things, and beholde vs, & [shewe vs the light of thy mercies,] 2And send thy feare among the nacions, which seke not after thee, [that they may know that there is no God but thou, and that they may shewe thy wonderous workes.] 3Lift vp thine hand vpon the strange nacions, that they may se thy power. 4As thou art sanctified in vs before them, so be thou magnified among them before vs, 5That they may knowe thee, as we knowe thee: for there is none other God but onely thou, ô Lord. 6Renue the signes, & change the wonders: shewe the glorie of thine hand, and thy right arme, that they may shewe forthe thy wonderous actes. 7Raise vp thine indignacion, & powre out wrath: take away the aduersarie, and smite the enemie. 8Make the time shorte: remember thine othe, that thy wonderous workes may be praised. 9Let the wrath of the fyre consume them that escape, and let them perish that oppresse the people. 10Smite in sonder the heades of the princes that be our enemies, and say, There is none other but we. 11Gather all the tribes of Iacob together, [that they may knowe that there is none other God but onely thou, and that thei may shew thy wonderous workes,] and inherit thou them as from the beginning. 12O Lord, haue mercie vpon the people, that is called by thy Name, & vpon Israel, whome thou hast likened to a first borne sonne. 13Oh, be merciful vnto Ierusalem the citie of thy Sanctuarie, the citie of thy rest. 14Fill Sion, that it may magnifie thine oracles, and fill thy people with thy glorie. 15Giue witnes vnto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise vp the prophecies that haue bene shewed in thy Name. 16Rewarde them that waite for thee, that thy Prophetes may be founde faithful. 17O Lord, heare the prayer of thy seruants according to the blessing of Aaron ouer thy people, [& guide thou vs in the way of righteousnes] that all they which dwell vpon the earth, may knowe that thou art the Lord the eternal God. 18¶The belie deuoureth all meates, yet is one meat better then another. 19As the throte tasteth venisone, so doeth a wise minde discerne false wordes. 20A frowarde heart bringeth grief, but a man of experience wil resist it. 21A woman is apt to receiue euerie man: yet is one daughter better then another. 22The beautie of a woman chereth the face, and a man loueth nothing better. 23If there be in her tongue gentlenes, mekenes, and wholesome talke, then is not her housband like other men. 24He that hathe gotten a [vertuous] woman, hathe begone to get a possession: she is an helpe like vnto him self, and a piller to rest vpon. 25Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hathe no wife, wandereth to and fro, mourning. 26Who wil trust a thief that is alway readie and wandereth from towne to towne? and likewise him, that hathe no rest, and lodgeth, wheresoeuer the night taketh him?
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