Sirach 48
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1THen stode vp Elias the Prophete as a fyre, and his worde burnt like a lampe. 2He broght a famine vpon them, and by his zeale he diminished them: [for they might not away with the commandements of the Lord.] 3By the worde of the Lord he shut the heauen, and thre times broght he the fyre from heauen. 4O Elias, how honorable art thou by thy wonderous dedes! who may make his boast to be like thee! 5Which hast raised vp the dead from death, & by the worde of the moste High out of the graue: 6Which hast broght Kings vnto destruction, and the honorable from their seate: 7Which heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sina, and in Horeb the iudgement of the vengeance: 8Which didest anoint Kings that they might recompense, and Prophetes to be thy successours: 9Which wast taken vp in a whirle winde of fyre, and in a charet of fyrie horses: 10Which wast appointed to reproue in due season, & to pacifie the wrath of the Lords iudgement before it kindled, & to turne the hearts of the fathers vnto the children, and to set vp the tribes of Iacob. 11Blessed were they that sawe thee, & slept in loue: for we shal liue. 12When Elias was couered with the storme, Eliseus was filled with his spirit: while he liued, he was not moued for any prince, nether colde any bring him into subiection. 13Nothing colde ouercome him, and after his death his bodie prophecied. 14He did wonders in his life, and in death were his workes marueilous. 15For all this the people repented not, nether departed they from their sinnes: til they were caryed away prisoners out of their land, and were scatered through all the earth, so that there remained but a very few people with the prince vnto the house of Dauid. 16Howbeit some of them did right, and some heaped vp sinnes. 17Ezekias made his citie strong, & conueied water into the middes thereof: he digged thorow the rocke with yron, and made fountaines for waters. 18In his time came Sennacherib vp, and sent Rabsaces, and lift vp his hand against Sion, and boasted proudely. 19Then trembled their hearts and hands, so that they sorowed like a woman in trauel. 20But they called vpon the Lord, which is merciful, and lift vp their hands vnto him, and immediatly the holy one heard them out of heauen. 21[He thoght no more vpon their sinnes, nor gaue them ouer to their enemies,] but deliuered them by the hand of Esai. 22He smote the hoste of the Assyrians, and his Angel destroyed them. 23For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and remained stedfastly in the wayes of Dauid his father, as Esai the great Prophet, and faithful in his vision had commanded him. 24In his time the sonne went backwarde, and he lengthened the Kings life. 25He sawe by an excellent Spirit what shulde come to passe at the last, and he comforted them that were sorowful in Sion. 26He shewed what shulde come to passe for euer, and secret things, or euer thei came to passe.
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