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Sirach 33
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1Have mercy upon us, O Lord God of all, and behold us:
1There shall no evil happen to him that fears the Lord; but in temptation even again he will deliver him.
2and send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after thee.
2A wise man hates not the law; but he that is an hypocrite therein is as a ship in a storm.
3Lift up thy hand against the strange nations, and let them see thy power.
3A man of understanding trusts in the law; and the law is faithful to him, as an oracle.
4As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou magnified among them before us.
4Prepare what to say, and so you shall be heard: and bind up instruction, and then make answer.
5And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is no God but only thou, O God.
5The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his thoughts are like a rolling axle tree.
6Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous works.
6A stallion horse is as a mocking friend, he neighs under every one that sits upon him.
7Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.
7Why does one day excel another, when as all the light of every day in the year is of the sun?
8Make the time short, remember the covenant, and let them declare thy wonderful works.
8By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: and he altered seasons and feasts.
9Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire; and let them perish that oppress the people.
9Some of them has he made high days, and hallowed them, and some of them has he made ordinary days.
10Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that say, There is none other but we.
10And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth:
11Gather all the tribes of Jacob together.
11In much knowledge the Lord has divided them, and made their ways diverse.
12A cheerful and good heart will have a care of his meat and diet.
12Some of them has he blessed and exalted and some of them he sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them has he cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places.