From 3aa90a9b8d7623a70e2d3a505bea080ba37c1d67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukasz Kasprzak Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:30:55 +0200 Subject: data(bible): close the deuterocanon gap in vul + drb corpora Added Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch to vul (5) and those + 1-2 Maccabees to drb (7), from get.bible's public-domain Clementine Vulgate / Douay-Rheims (Clementine versification = the EF citation basis). EF and OF deuterocanonical citations (e.g. the Assumption's Judith epistle) now resolve against the corpora. Flipped the gap-documenting test to assert resolution. --- NOTICE | 7 + internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv | 4373 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ internal/bible/corpora/vul.tsv | 2888 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ internal/bible/ref_test.go | 8 +- 4 files changed, 7274 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE index 93491e3..d9dfc96 100644 --- a/NOTICE +++ b/NOTICE @@ -16,3 +16,10 @@ Extraordinary Form (1962) calendar data The 1962 calendar data in internal/caldata/tridentine-calendar.ini was bootstrapped with reference to Divinum Officium (https://divinumofficium.com) and the Missal1962 / tridentine_calendar projects, and is lectio's own. + +Scripture corpora — deuterocanon +-------------------------------- +The deuterocanonical books added to the Vulgate (vul) and Douay-Rheims (drb) +corpora are public-domain texts obtained via get.bible (getbible/v2): +the Clementine Vulgate (Clementine Vulgate Project / M. Tweedale, CBCEW- +authorized, public domain) and the Douay-Rheims (Challoner), public domain. diff --git a/internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv b/internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv index de91436..78d6867 100644 --- a/internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv +++ b/internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv @@ -31090,3 +31090,4376 @@ Revelation Rev 66 22 18 For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the Revelation Rev 66 22 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book. Revelation Rev 66 22 20 He that giveth testimony of these things, saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Revelation Rev 66 22 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. +Tobit Tob 17 1 1 Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which is in the upper parts of Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way that leadeth to the west, having on the right hand the city of Sephet,) +Tobit Tob 17 1 2 When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth, +Tobit Tob 17 1 3 But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred. +Tobit Tob 17 1 4 And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work. +Tobit Tob 17 1 5 Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he alone fled the company of all, +Tobit Tob 17 1 6 And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes, +Tobit Tob 17 1 7 So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers. +Tobit Tob 17 1 8 These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according to the law of God. +Tobit Tob 17 1 9 But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her, whom he called after his own name, +Tobit Tob 17 1 10 And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain from all sin. +Tobit Tob 17 1 11 And when by the captivity he with his wife and his son and all his tribe was come to the city of Ninive, +Tobit Tob 17 1 12 (When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles) he kept his soul and never was defiled with their meats. +Tobit Tob 17 1 13 And because he was mindful of the Lord with all his heart, God gave him favour in the sight of Salmanasar the king. +Tobit Tob 17 1 14 And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty to do whatever he had a mind. +Tobit Tob 17 1 15 He therefore went to all that were in captivity, and gave them wholesome admonitions. +Tobit Tob 17 1 16 And when he was come to Rages a city of the Medes, and had ten talents of silver of that with which he had been honoured by the king: +Tobit Tob 17 1 17 And when amongst a great multitude of his kindred, he saw Gabelus in want, who was one of his tribe, taking a note of his hand he gave him the aforesaid sum of money. +Tobit Tob 17 1 18 But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when Sennacherib his son, who reigned in his place, had a hatred for the children of Israel: +Tobit Tob 17 1 19 Tobias daily went among all his kindred and comforted them, and distributed to every one as he was able, out of his goods: +Tobit Tob 17 1 20 He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the naked, and was careful to bury the dead, and they that were slain. +Tobit Tob 17 1 21 And when king Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by reason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy, and being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried their bodies. +Tobit Tob 17 1 22 But when it was told the king, he commanded him to be slain, and took away all his substance. +Tobit Tob 17 1 23 But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay concealed, for many loved him. +Tobit Tob 17 1 24 But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons. +Tobit Tob 17 1 25 And Tobias returned to his house, and all his substance was restored to him. +Tobit Tob 17 2 1 But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house, +Tobit Tob 17 2 2 He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us. +Tobit Tob 17 2 3 And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body. +Tobit Tob 17 2 4 And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously. +Tobit Tob 17 2 5 And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear, +Tobit Tob 17 2 6 Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning. +Tobit Tob 17 2 7 So when the sun was down, he went and buried him. +Tobit Tob 17 2 8 Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead? +Tobit Tob 17 2 9 But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them. +Tobit Tob 17 2 10 Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept, +Tobit Tob 17 2 11 And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind. +Tobit Tob 17 2 12 Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job. +Tobit Tob 17 2 13 For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him, +Tobit Tob 17 2 14 But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life. +Tobit Tob 17 2 15 For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying: +Tobit Tob 17 2 16 Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the dead? +Tobit Tob 17 2 17 But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so: +Tobit Tob 17 2 18 For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him. +Tobit Tob 17 2 19 Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands. +Tobit Tob 17 2 20 Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and brought it home: +Tobit Tob 17 2 21 And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft. +Tobit Tob 17 2 22 At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident the hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear. +Tobit Tob 17 2 23 And with these and other such like words, she upbraided him. +Tobit Tob 17 3 1 Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears, +Tobit Tob 17 3 2 Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and all thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment: +Tobit Tob 17 3 3 And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins, neither remember my offences, nor those of my parents. +Tobit Tob 17 3 4 For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us. +Tobit Tob 17 3 5 And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee. +Tobit Tob 17 3 6 And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live. +Tobit Tob 17 3 7 Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids, +Tobit Tob 17 3 8 Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. +Tobit Tob 17 3 9 So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands. +Tobit Tob 17 3 10 Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink: +Tobit Tob 17 3 11 But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach. +Tobit Tob 17 3 12 And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end of her prayer, blessing the Lord, +Tobit Tob 17 3 13 She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when thou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee. +Tobit Tob 17 3 14 To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes. +Tobit Tob 17 3 15 I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach, or else take me away from the earth. +Tobit Tob 17 3 16 Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have kept my soul clean from all lust. +Tobit Tob 17 3 17 Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I made myself partaker with them that walk in lightness. +Tobit Tob 17 3 18 But a husband I consented to take, with thy fear, not with my lust. +Tobit Tob 17 3 19 And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man, +Tobit Tob 17 3 20 For thy counsel is not in man's power. +Tobit Tob 17 3 21 But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his life, if it be under trial, shall be crowned and if it be under tribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it shall be allowed to come to thy mercy. +Tobit Tob 17 3 22 For thou art not delighted in our being lost, because after a storm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in joyfulness. +Tobit Tob 17 3 23 Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever, +Tobit Tob 17 3 24 At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God: +Tobit Tob 17 3 25 And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord. +Tobit Tob 17 4 1 Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he might die, he called to him Tobias his son, +Tobit Tob 17 4 2 And said to him: Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them as a foundation in thy heart. +Tobit Tob 17 4 3 When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou shalt honour thy mother all the days of her life: +Tobit Tob 17 4 4 For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for thee in her womb. +Tobit Tob 17 4 5 And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her by me. +Tobit Tob 17 4 6 And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed thou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord our God. +Tobit Tob 17 4 7 Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee. +Tobit Tob 17 4 8 According to thy ability be merciful. +Tobit Tob 17 4 9 If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little. +Tobit Tob 17 4 10 For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity. +Tobit Tob 17 4 11 For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness. +Tobit Tob 17 4 12 Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it. +Tobit Tob 17 4 13 Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime. +Tobit Tob 17 4 14 Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning. +Tobit Tob 17 4 15 If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all. +Tobit Tob 17 4 16 See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done to thee by another. +Tobit Tob 17 4 17 Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments cover the naked, +Tobit Tob 17 4 18 Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked. +Tobit Tob 17 4 19 Seek counsel always of a wise man. +Tobit Tob 17 4 20 Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels may abide in him. +Tobit Tob 17 4 21 I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver, while thou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes, and I have a note of his hand with me: +Tobit Tob 17 4 22 Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go to him, and receive of him the foresaid sum of money, and restore to him the note of his hand. +Tobit Tob 17 4 23 Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have many good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is good. +Tobit Tob 17 5 1 Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, which thou hast commanded me. +Tobit Tob 17 5 2 But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth not me, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the way which leadeth thither. +Tobit Tob 17 5 3 Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it. +Tobit Tob 17 5 4 But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live. +Tobit Tob 17 5 5 Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk. +Tobit Tob 17 5 6 And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man? +Tobit Tob 17 5 7 But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes? +Tobit Tob 17 5 8 And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana. +Tobit Tob 17 5 9 And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell these same things to my father. +Tobit Tob 17 5 10 Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon which his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto him. +Tobit Tob 17 5 11 So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always. +Tobit Tob 17 5 12 And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness and see not the light of heaven? +Tobit Tob 17 5 13 And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from God is at hand. +Tobit Tob 17 5 14 And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee thy hire. +Tobit Tob 17 5 15 And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring him back to thee. +Tobit Tob 17 5 16 And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or what tribe art thou? +Tobit Tob 17 5 17 And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him thou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son? +Tobit Tob 17 5 18 But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias. +Tobit Tob 17 5 19 And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee be not angry that I desired to know thy family. +Tobit Tob 17 5 20 And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him to thee again safe. +Tobit Tob 17 5 21 And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God be with you in your way, and his angel accompany you. +Tobit Tob 17 5 22 Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their journey, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set out both together. +Tobit Tob 17 5 23 And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us. +Tobit Tob 17 5 24 I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been. +Tobit Tob 17 5 25 For our poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as riches, that we saw our son. +Tobit Tob 17 5 26 And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him. +Tobit Tob 17 5 27 For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy. +Tobit Tob 17 5 28 At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace. +Tobit Tob 17 6 1 And Tobias went forward, and the dog followed him, and he lodged the first night by the river of Tigris. +Tobit Tob 17 6 2 And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came up to devour him. +Tobit Tob 17 6 3 And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice, saying: Sir, he cometh upon me. +Tobit Tob 17 6 4 And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to thee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he began to pant before his feet. +Tobit Tob 17 6 5 Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for useful medicines. +Tobit Tob 17 6 6 And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes. +Tobit Tob 17 6 7 Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which thou hast bid me keep of the fish? +Tobit Tob 17 6 8 And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them. +Tobit Tob 17 6 9 And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and they shall be cured. +Tobit Tob 17 6 10 And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge? +Tobit Tob 17 6 11 And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel, a near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he hath no son nor any other daughter beside her. +Tobit Tob 17 6 12 All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife. +Tobit Tob 17 6 13 Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to wife. +Tobit Tob 17 6 14 Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them. +Tobit Tob 17 6 15 Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell. +Tobit Tob 17 6 16 Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. +Tobit Tob 17 6 17 For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power. +Tobit Tob 17 6 18 But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing else but to prayers with her. +Tobit Tob 17 6 19 And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the devil shall be driven away. +Tobit Tob 17 6 20 But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of the holy Patriarchs. +Tobit Tob 17 6 21 And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound children may be born of you. +Tobit Tob 17 6 22 And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust, that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children. +Tobit Tob 17 7 1 And they went in to Raguel, and Raguel received them with joy. +Tobit Tob 17 7 2 And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is this young man to my cousin? +Tobit Tob 17 7 3 And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young men our brethren? +Tobit Tob 17 7 4 But they said: We are of the tribe of Nephtali, of the captivity of Ninive. +Tobit Tob 17 7 5 And Raguel said to them: Do you know Tobias my brother? And they said: We know him. +Tobit Tob 17 7 6 And when he was speaking many good things of him, the angel said to Raguel: Tobias concerning whom thou inquirest is this young man's father. +Tobit Tob 17 7 7 And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon his neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the son of a good and most virtuous man. +Tobit Tob 17 7 8 And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter wept. +Tobit Tob 17 7 9 And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded a sheep to be killed, and a feast to be prepared. And when he desired them to sit down to dinner, +Tobit Tob 17 7 10 Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou first grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter. +Tobit Tob 17 7 11 Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had happened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began to fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was in suspense, and gave no answer to his petition, +Tobit Tob 17 7 12 The angel said to him: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for to him who feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore another could not have her. +Tobit Tob 17 7 13 Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God hath regarded my prayers and tears in his sight. +Tobit Tob 17 7 14 And I believe he hath therefore made you come to me, that this maid might be married to one of her own kindred, according to the law of Moses: and now doubt not but I will give her to thee. +Tobit Tob 17 7 15 And taking the right hand of his daughter, he gave it into the right hand of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob be with you, and may he join you together, and fulfil his blessing in you. +Tobit Tob 17 7 16 And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage. +Tobit Tob 17 7 17 And afterwards they made merry, blessing God. +Tobit Tob 17 7 18 And Raguel called to him Anna his wife, and bade her to prepare another chamber. +Tobit Tob 17 7 19 And she brought Sara her daughter in thither, and she wept. +Tobit Tob 17 7 20 And she said to her: Be of good cheer, my daughter: the Lord of heaven give thee joy for the trouble thou hast undergone. +Tobit Tob 17 8 1 And after they had supped, they brought in the young man to her. +Tobit Tob 17 8 2 And Tobias remembering the angel's word, took out of his bag part of the liver, and laid it upon burning coals. +Tobit Tob 17 8 3 Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt. +Tobit Tob 17 8 4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock. +Tobit Tob 17 8 5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God. +Tobit Tob 17 8 6 So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them. +Tobit Tob 17 8 7 And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee. +Tobit Tob 17 8 8 Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper. +Tobit Tob 17 8 9 And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever. +Tobit Tob 17 8 10 Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health. +Tobit Tob 17 8 11 And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave. +Tobit Tob 17 8 12 For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like manner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her. +Tobit Tob 17 8 13 And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife, and said to her: +Tobit Tob 17 8 14 Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may bury him before it be day. +Tobit Tob 17 8 15 So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together. +Tobit Tob 17 8 16 And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord, +Tobit Tob 17 8 17 And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not happened as we suspected. +Tobit Tob 17 8 18 For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us. +Tobit Tob 17 8 19 And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone art God in all the earth. +Tobit Tob 17 8 20 And immediately Raguel commanded his servants, to fill up the pit they had made, before it was day. +Tobit Tob 17 8 21 And he spoke to his wife to make ready a feast, and prepare all kind of provisions that are necessary for such as go a journey. +Tobit Tob 17 8 22 He caused also two fat kine, and four wethers to be killed, and a banquet to be prepared for all his neighbours, and all his friends. +Tobit Tob 17 8 23 And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide with him two weeks. +Tobit Tob 17 8 24 And of all things which Raguel possessed, he gave one half to Tobias, and made a writing, that the half that remained should after their decease come also to Tobias. +Tobit Tob 17 9 1 Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and said to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words: +Tobit Tob 17 9 2 If I should give myself to be thy servant I should not make a worthy return for thy care. +Tobit Tob 17 9 3 However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants, and to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to him his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to come to my wedding. +Tobit Tob 17 9 4 For thou knowest that my father numbereth the days: and if I stay one day more, his soul will be afflicted. +Tobit Tob 17 9 5 And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I cannot despise. +Tobit Tob 17 9 6 Then Raphael took four of Raguel's servants, and two camels, and went to Rages the city of the Medes: and finding Gabelus, gave him his note of hand, and received of him all the money. +Tobit Tob 17 9 7 And he told him concerning Tobias the son of Tobias, all that had been done: and made him come with him to the wedding. +Tobit Tob 17 9 8 And when he was come into Raguel's house he found Tobias sitting at the table: and he leaped up, and they kissed each other: and Gabelus wept, and blessed God, +Tobit Tob 17 9 9 And said: The God of Israel bless thee, because thou art the son of a very good and just man, and that feareth God, and doth almsdeeds: +Tobit Tob 17 9 10 And may a blessing come upon thy wife and upon your parents. +Tobit Tob 17 9 11 And may you see your children, and your children's children, unto the third and fourth generation: and may your seed be blessed by the God of Israel, who reigneth for ever and ever. +Tobit Tob 17 9 12 And when all had said, Amen, they went to the feast: but the marriage feast they celebrated also with the fear of the Lord. +Tobit Tob 17 10 1 But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage, Tobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son tarry, or why is he detained there? +Tobit Tob 17 10 2 Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man will pay him the money? +Tobit Tob 17 10 3 And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with him: and they began both to weep together, because their son did not return to them on the day appointed. +Tobit Tob 17 10 4 But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe, woe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity? +Tobit Tob 17 10 5 We having all things together in thee alone, ought not to have let thee go from us. +Tobit Tob 17 10 6 And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and be not troubled, our son is safe: that man with whom we sent him is very trusty. +Tobit Tob 17 10 7 But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out looked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed any hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming afar off. +Tobit Tob 17 10 8 But Raguel said to his son in law: Stay here, and I will send a messenger to Tobias thy father, that thou art in health. +Tobit Tob 17 10 9 And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now count the days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them. +Tobit Tob 17 10 10 And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with many words, and he by no means would hearken to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of all his substance in menservants, and womenservants, in cattle, in camels, and in kine, and in much money, and sent him away safe and joyful from him, +Tobit Tob 17 10 11 Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your journey, and bring you through safe, and that you may find all things well about your parents, and my eyes may see your children before I die. +Tobit Tob 17 10 12 And the parents taking their daughter kissed her, and let her go: +Tobit Tob 17 10 13 Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love her husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to behave herself irreprehensibly. +Tobit Tob 17 11 1 And as they were returning they came to Charan, which is in the midway to Ninive, the eleventh day. +Tobit Tob 17 11 2 And the angel said: Brother Tobias, thou knowest how thou didst leave thy father. +Tobit Tob 17 11 3 If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family follow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts. +Tobit Tob 17 11 4 And as this their going pleased him, Raphael said to Tobias: Take with thee of the gall of the fish, for it will be necessary. So Tobias took some of that gall and departed. +Tobit Tob 17 11 5 But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from whence she might see afar off. +Tobit Tob 17 11 6 And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him afar off, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning she told her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh. +Tobit Tob 17 11 7 And Raphael said to Tobias: As soon as thou shalt come into thy house, forthwith adore the Lord thy God: and giving thanks to him, go to thy father, and kiss him. +Tobit Tob 17 11 8 And immediately anoint his eyes with this gall of the fish, which thou carriest with thee. For be assured that his eyes shall be presently opened, and thy father shall see the light of heaven, and shall rejoice in the sight of thee. +Tobit Tob 17 11 9 Then the dog, which had been with them in the way, ran before, and coming as if he had brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning and wagging his tail. +Tobit Tob 17 11 10 And his father that was blind, rising up, began to run stumbling with his feet: and giving a servant his hand, went to meet his son. +Tobit Tob 17 11 11 And receiving him kissed him, as did also his wife, and they began to weep for joy. +Tobit Tob 17 11 12 And when they had adored God, and given him thanks, they sat down together. +Tobit Tob 17 11 13 Then Tobias taking of the gall of the fish, anointed his father's eyes. +Tobit Tob 17 11 14 And he stayed about half an hour: and a white skin began to come out of his eyes, like the skin of an egg. +Tobit Tob 17 11 15 And Tobias took hold of it, and drew it from his eyes, and recovered his sight. +Tobit Tob 17 11 16 And they glorified God, both he and his wife and all that knew him. +Tobit Tob 17 11 17 And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because thou hast chastised me, and thou hast saved me and behold I see Tobias my son. +Tobit Tob 17 11 18 And after seven days Sara his son's wife and all the family arrived safe, and the cattle, and the camels, and an abundance of money of his wife's: and that money also which he had received of Gabelus, +Tobit Tob 17 11 19 And he told his parents all the benefits of God, which he had done to him by the man that conducted him. +Tobit Tob 17 11 20 And Achior and Nabath the kinsmen of Tobias came, rejoicing for Tobias, and congratulating with him for all the good things that God had done for him. +Tobit Tob 17 11 21 And for seven days they feasted and rejoiced all with great joy. +Tobit Tob 17 12 1 Then Tobias called to him his son and said to him: What can we give to this holy man, that is come with thee? +Tobit Tob 17 12 2 Tobias answering, said to his father: Father, what wages shall we give him? or what can be worthy of his benefits? +Tobit Tob 17 12 3 He conducted me and brought me safe again, he received the money of Gabelus, he caused me to have my wife, and he chased from her the evil spirit, he gave joy to her parents, myself he delivered from being devoured by the fish, thee also he hath made to see the light of heaven, and we are filled with all good things through him. What can we give him sufficient for these things? +Tobit Tob 17 12 4 But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him, that he would vouchsafe to accept of one half of all things that have been brought. +Tobit Tob 17 12 5 So the father and the son calling him, took him aside: and began to desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things that they had brought, +Tobit Tob 17 12 6 Then he said to them secretly, Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you. +Tobit Tob 17 12 7 For it is good to hide the secret of a king: to reveal and confess the works of God. +Tobit Tob 17 12 8 Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold. +Tobit Tob 17 12 9 For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting. +Tobit Tob 17 12 10 But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul. +Tobit Tob 17 12 11 I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you. +Tobit Tob 17 12 12 When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord. +Tobit Tob 17 12 13 And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. +Tobit Tob 17 12 14 And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil. +Tobit Tob 17 12 15 For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord. +Tobit Tob 17 12 16 And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and being seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face. +Tobit Tob 17 12 17 And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not. +Tobit Tob 17 12 18 For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless ye him, and sing praises to him. +Tobit Tob 17 12 19 I seemed indeed to eat and to drink with you but I use an invisible meat and drink, which cannot be seen by men. +Tobit Tob 17 12 20 It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but bless ye God, and publish all his wonderful works. +Tobit Tob 17 12 21 And when he had said these things, he was taken from their sight, and they could see him no more. +Tobit Tob 17 12 22 Then they lying prostrate for three hours upon their face, blessed God, and rising up, they told all his wonderful works. +Tobit Tob 17 13 1 And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed the Lord, and said: Thou art great O Lord, for ever, and thy kingdom is unto all ages. +Tobit Tob 17 13 2 For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell, and bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand. +Tobit Tob 17 13 3 Give glory to the Lord, ye children of Israel, and praise him in the sight of the Gentiles: +Tobit Tob 17 13 4 Because he hath therefore scattered you among the Gentiles, who know not him, that you may declare his wonderful works, and make them know that there is no other almighty God besides him. +Tobit Tob 17 13 5 He hath chastised us for our iniquities: and he will save us for his own mercy. +Tobit Tob 17 13 6 See then what he hath done with us, and with fear and trembling give ye glory to him: and extol the eternal King of worlds in your works. +Tobit Tob 17 13 7 As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because he hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation, +Tobit Tob 17 13 8 Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do justice before God, believing that he will shew his mercy to you. +Tobit Tob 17 13 9 And I and my soul will rejoice in him. +Tobit Tob 17 13 10 Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days of joy, and give glory to him. +Tobit Tob 17 13 11 Jerusalem, city of God, the Lord hath chastised thee for the works of thy hands. +Tobit Tob 17 13 12 Give glory to the Lord for thy good things, and bless the God eternal that he may rebuild his tabernacle in thee, and may call back all the captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever and ever. +Tobit Tob 17 13 13 Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and all the ends of the earth shall worship thee, +Tobit Tob 17 13 14 Nations from afar shall come to thee: and shall bring gifts, and shall adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem thy land as holy. +Tobit Tob 17 13 15 For they shall call upon the great name in thee, +Tobit Tob 17 13 16 They shall be cursed that shall despise thee: and they shall be condemned that shall blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that shall build thee up, +Tobit Tob 17 13 17 But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, because they shall all be blessed, and shall be gathered together to the Lord. +Tobit Tob 17 13 18 Blessed are all they that love thee, and that rejoice in thy peace, +Tobit Tob 17 13 19 My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the Lord our God hath delivered Jerusalem his city from all her troubles. +Tobit Tob 17 13 20 Happy shall I be if there shall remain of my seed, to see the glory of Jerusalem. +Tobit Tob 17 13 21 The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire, and of emerald, and all the walls thereof round about of precious stones. +Tobit Tob 17 13 22 All its streets shall be paved with white and clean stones: and Alleluia shall be sung in its streets, +Tobit Tob 17 13 23 Blessed be the Lord, who hath exalted it, and may he reign over it for ever and ever, Amen. +Tobit Tob 17 14 1 And the words of Tobias were ended. And after Tobias was restored to his sight, he lived two and forty years, and saw the children of his grandchildren. +Tobit Tob 17 14 2 And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried honorably in Ninive. +Tobit Tob 17 14 3 For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again. +Tobit Tob 17 14 4 And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace. +Tobit Tob 17 14 5 And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them: +Tobit Tob 17 14 6 The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord must be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the land of Israel, shall return to it. +Tobit Tob 17 14 7 And all the land thereof that is desert shall be filled with people, and the house of God which is burnt in it, shall again be rebuilt: and all that fear God shall return thither. +Tobit Tob 17 14 8 And the Gentiles shall leave their idols, and shall come into Jerusalem, and shall dwell in it. +Tobit Tob 17 14 9 And all the kings of the earth shall rejoice in it, adoring the King of Israel. +Tobit Tob 17 14 10 Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord in truth, and seek to do the things that please him: +Tobit Tob 17 14 11 And command your children that they do justice and almsdeeds, and that they be mindful of God, and bless him at all times in truth, and with all their power. +Tobit Tob 17 14 12 And now, children, hear me, and do not stay here: but as soon as you shall bury your mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay direct your steps to depart hence: +Tobit Tob 17 14 13 For I see that its iniquity will bring it to destruction. +Tobit Tob 17 14 14 And it came to pass that after the death of his mother, Tobias departed out of Ninive with his wife, and children, and children's children, and returned to his father and mother in law. +Tobit Tob 17 14 15 And he found them in health in a good old age: and he took care of them, and he closed their eyes: and all the inheritance of Raguel's house came to him: and he saw his children's children to the fifth generation. +Tobit Tob 17 14 16 And after he had lived ninety-nine years in the fear of the Lord, with joy they buried him. +Tobit Tob 17 14 17 And all his kindred, and all his generation continued in good life, and in holy conversation, so that they were acceptable both to God, and to men, and to all that dwelt in the land. +Judith Jdt 18 1 1 Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his dominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana, +Judith Jdt 18 1 2 Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet. +Judith Jdt 18 1 3 And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers: +Judith Jdt 18 1 4 And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots. +Judith Jdt 18 1 5 Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him, +Judith Jdt 18 1 6 In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the Elicians. +Judith Jdt 18 1 7 Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was elevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and Libanus, +Judith Jdt 18 1 8 And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the inhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon, +Judith Jdt 18 1 9 And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even to Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of Ethiopia. +Judith Jdt 18 1 10 To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent messengers: +Judith Jdt 18 1 11 But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and rejected them without honour. +Judith Jdt 18 1 12 Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries. +Judith Jdt 18 2 1 In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and twentieth day of the first month, the word was given out in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself. +Judith Jdt 18 2 2 And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel: +Judith Jdt 18 2 3 And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the earth under his empire. +Judith Jdt 18 2 4 And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the general of his armies, +Judith Jdt 18 2 5 And said to him: Go out against all the kingdoms of the west, and against them especially that despised my commandment. +Judith Jdt 18 2 6 Thy eye shall not spare any kingdom, and all the strong cities thou shalt bring under my yoke. +Judith Jdt 18 2 7 Then Holofernes called the captains, and officers of the power of the Assyrians: and he mustered men for the expedition, and the king commanded him, a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men on foot, and twelve thousand archers, horsemen. +Judith Jdt 18 2 8 And he made all his warlike preparations to go before with a multitude of innumerable camels, with all provisions sufficient for the armies in abundance, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, without number. +Judith Jdt 18 2 9 He appointed corn to be prepared out of all Syria in his passage. +Judith Jdt 18 2 10 But gold and silver he took out of the king's house in great abundance. +Judith Jdt 18 2 11 And he went forth he and all the army, with the chariots, and horsemen, and archers, who covered the face of the earth, like locusts. +Judith Jdt 18 2 12 And when he had passed through the borders of the Assyrians, he came to the great mountains of Ange, which are on the left of Cilicia: and he went up to all their castles, and took all the strong places. +Judith Jdt 18 2 13 And he took by assault the renowned city of Melothus, and pillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who were over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land of Cellon. +Judith Jdt 18 2 14 And he passed over the Euphrates and came into Mesopotamia: and he forced all the stately cities that were there, from the torrent of Mambre, till one comes to the sea: +Judith Jdt 18 2 15 And he took the borders thereof, from Cilicia to the coasts of Japheth, which are towards the south. +Judith Jdt 18 2 16 And he carried away all the children of Madian, and stripped them of all their riches, and all that resisted him he slew with the edge of the sword. +Judith Jdt 18 2 17 And after these things he went down into the plains of Damascus in the days of the harvest, and he set all the corn on fire, and he caused all the trees and vineyards to be cut down. +Judith Jdt 18 2 18 And the fear of them fell upon all the inhabitants of the land. +Judith Jdt 18 3 1 Then the kings and the princes of all the cities and provinces, of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their ambassadors, who coming to Holofernes, said: +Judith Jdt 18 3 2 Let thy indignation towards us cease, for it is better for us to live and serve Nabuchodonosor the great king, and be subject to thee, than to die and to perish, or suffer the miseries of slavery. +Judith Jdt 18 3 3 All our cities and our possessions, all mountains and hills, and fields, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and goats, and horses, and camels, and all our goods, and families are in thy sight: +Judith Jdt 18 3 4 Let all we have be subject to thy law, +Judith Jdt 18 3 5 Both we and our children are thy servants. +Judith Jdt 18 3 6 Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee, +Judith Jdt 18 3 7 Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants of the land. +Judith Jdt 18 3 8 And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and chosen for war, +Judith Jdt 18 3 9 And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the inhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the people, went out to meet him at his coming. +Judith Jdt 18 3 10 And received him with garlands, and lights, and dances, and timbrels, and flutes. +Judith Jdt 18 3 11 And though they did these things, they could not for all that mitigate the fierceness of his heart: +Judith Jdt 18 3 12 For he both destroyed their cities, and cut down their groves. +Judith Jdt 18 3 13 For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the gods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations which could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes. +Judith Jdt 18 3 14 And when he had passed through all Syria Sobal, and all Apamea, and all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa, +Judith Jdt 18 3 15 And he took possession of their cities, and stayed there for thirty days, in which days he commanded all the troops of his army to be united. +Judith Jdt 18 4 1 Then the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of Juda, hearing these things, were exceedingly afraid of him. +Judith Jdt 18 4 2 Dread and horror seized upon their minds, lest he should do the same to Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord, that he had done to other cities and their temples. +Judith Jdt 18 4 3 And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and seized upon all the tops of the mountains: +Judith Jdt 18 4 4 And they compassed their towns with walls and gathered together corn for provision for war. +Judith Jdt 18 4 5 And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against Esdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom there might be a passage of way, +Judith Jdt 18 4 6 that they should take possession of the ascents of the mountains, by which there might be any way to Jerusalem, and should keep watch where the way was narrow between the mountains. +Judith Jdt 18 4 7 And the children of Israel did as the priests of the Lord Eliachim had appointed them. +Judith Jdt 18 4 8 And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives. +Judith Jdt 18 4 9 And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth. +Judith Jdt 18 4 10 And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that they might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles. +Judith Jdt 18 4 11 Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel and spoke to them, +Judith Jdt 18 4 12 Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you continue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord. +Judith Jdt 18 4 13 Remember Moses the servant of the Lord overcame Amalec that trusted in his own strength, and in his power, and in his army, and in his shields, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen, not by fighting with the sword, but by holy prayers: +Judith Jdt 18 4 14 So all the enemies of Israel be, if you persevere in this work which you have begun. +Judith Jdt 18 4 15 So they being moved by this exhortation of his, prayed to the Lord, and continued in the sight of the Lord. +Judith Jdt 18 4 16 So that even they who offered the holocausts to the Lord, offered the sacrifices to the Lord girded with haircloths, and with ashes upon their head. +Judith Jdt 18 4 17 And they all begged of God with all their heart, that he would visit his people Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 5 1 And it was told Holofernes the general of the army of the Assyrians, that the children of Israel prepared themselves to resist, and had shut up the ways of the mountains. +Judith Jdt 18 5 2 And he was transported with exceeding great fury and indignation, and he called all the princes of Moab and the leaders of Ammon. +Judith Jdt 18 5 3 And he said to them: Tell me what is this people that besetteth the mountains: or what are their cities, and of what sort, and how great: also what is their power, or what is their multitude: or who is the king over their warfare: +Judith Jdt 18 5 4 And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace? +Judith Jdt 18 5 5 Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said; If thou vouchsafe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight concerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall not a false word come out of my mouth. +Judith Jdt 18 5 6 This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans. +Judith Jdt 18 5 7 They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans. +Judith Jdt 18 5 8 Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which consisted in the worship of many gods, +Judith Jdt 18 5 9 They worshipped one God of heaven, who also commanded them to depart from thence, and to dwell in Charan. And when there was a famine over all the land, they went down into Egypt, and there for four hundred years were so multiplied, that the army of them could not be numbered. +Judith Jdt 18 5 10 And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of them to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, they cried to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of Egypt with divers plagues. +Judith Jdt 18 5 11 And when the Egyptians had cast them out from them, and the plague had ceased from them, and they had a mind to take them again, and bring them back to their service, +Judith Jdt 18 5 12 The God of heaven opened the sea to them in their flight, so that the waters were made to stand firm as a wall on either side, and they walked through the bottom of the sea and passed it dry foot. +Judith Jdt 18 5 13 And when an innumerable army of the Egyptians pursued after them in that place, they were so overwhelmed with the waters, that there was not one left, to tell what had happened to posterity. +Judith Jdt 18 5 14 After they came out of the Red Sea, they abode in the deserts of mount Sina, in which never man could dwell, or son of man rested. +Judith Jdt 18 5 15 There bitter fountains were made sweet for them to drink, and for forty years they received food from heaven. +Judith Jdt 18 5 16 Wheresoever they went in without bow and arrow, and without shield and sword, their God fought for them and overcame. +Judith Jdt 18 5 17 And there was no one that triumphed over this people, but when they departed from the worship of the Lord their God. +Judith Jdt 18 5 18 But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other, they were given to spoil and to the sword, and to reproach. +Judith Jdt 18 5 19 And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist. +Judith Jdt 18 5 20 So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their lands, and their cities: +Judith Jdt 18 5 21 And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity. +Judith Jdt 18 5 22 And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which God had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land. +Judith Jdt 18 5 23 But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different places wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone up into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their holies are. +Judith Jdt 18 5 24 Now therefore, my lord, search if there be any iniquity of theirs in the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will surely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke of thy power: +Judith Jdt 18 5 25 But if there be no offence of this people in the sight of their God, we cannot resist them because their God will defend them: and we shall be a reproach to the whole earth. +Judith Jdt 18 5 26 And it came to pass, when Achior had ceased to speak these words, all the great men of Holofernes were angry, and they had a mind to kill him, saying to each other: +Judith Jdt 18 5 27 Who is this, that saith the children of Israel can resist king Nabuchodonosor, and his armies, men unarmed, and without force, and without skill in the art of war? +Judith Jdt 18 5 28 That Achior therefore may know that he deceiveth us, let us go up into the mountains: and when the bravest of them shall be taken, then shall he with them be stabbed with the sword, +Judith Jdt 18 5 29 That every nation may know that Nabuchodonosor is god of the earth, and besides him there is no other. +Judith Jdt 18 6 1 And it came to pass when they had left off speaking, that Holofernes being in a violent passion, said to Achior: +Judith Jdt 18 6 2 Because thou hast prophesied unto us, saying: That the nation of Israel is defended by their God, to shew thee that there is no God, but Nabuchodonosor: +Judith Jdt 18 6 3 When we shall slay them all as one man, then thou also shalt die with them by the sword of the Assyrians, and all Israel shall perish with thee: +Judith Jdt 18 6 4 And thou shalt find that Nabuchodonosor is lord of the whole earth: and then the sword of my soldiers shall pass through thy sides, and thou shalt be stabbed and fall among the wounded of Israel, and thou shalt breathe no more till thou be destroyed with them. +Judith Jdt 18 6 5 But if thou think thy prophecy true, let not thy countenance sink, and let the paleness that is in thy face, depart from thee, if thou imaginest these my words cannot be accomplished. +Judith Jdt 18 6 6 And that thou mayst know that thou shalt experience these things together with them, behold from this hour thou shalt be associated to their people, that when they shall receive the punishment they deserve from my sword, thou mayst fall under the same vengeance. +Judith Jdt 18 6 7 Then Holofernes commanded his servants to take Achior, and to lead him to Bethulia, and to deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 6 8 And the servants of Holofernes taking him, went through the plains: but when they came near the mountains, the slingers came out against them. +Judith Jdt 18 6 9 Then turning out of the way by the side of the mountain, they tied Achior to a tree hand and foot, and so left him bound with ropes, and returned to their master. +Judith Jdt 18 6 10 And the children of Israel coming down from Bethulia, came to him, and loosing him they brought him to Bethulia, and setting him in the midst of the people, asked him what was the matter that the Assyrians had left him bound. +Judith Jdt 18 6 11 In those days the rulers there, were Ozias the son of Micha of the tribe of Simeon, and Charmi, called also Gothoniel. +Judith Jdt 18 6 12 And Achior related in the midst of the ancients, and in the presence of all the people, all that he had said being asked by Holofernes: and how the people of Holofernes would have killed him for this word, +Judith Jdt 18 6 13 And how Holofernes himself being angry had commanded him to be delivered for this cause to the Israelites: that when he should overcome the children of Israel, then he might command Achior also himself to be put to death by diverse torments, for having said: The God of heaven is their defender. +Judith Jdt 18 6 14 And when Achior had declared all these things, all the people fell upon their faces, adoring the Lord, and all of them together mourning and weeping poured out their prayers with one accord to the Lord, +Judith Jdt 18 6 15 Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints, and shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own strength. +Judith Jdt 18 6 16 So when their weeping was ended, and the people's prayer, in which they continued all the day, was concluded, they comforted Achior, +Judith Jdt 18 6 17 Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction. +Judith Jdt 18 6 18 And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us. +Judith Jdt 18 6 19 Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken up, received him into his house, and made him a great supper. +Judith Jdt 18 6 20 And all the ancients were invited, and they refreshed themselves together after their fast was over. +Judith Jdt 18 6 21 And afterwards all the people were called together, and they prayed all the night long within the church, desiring help of the God of Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 7 1 But Holofernes on the next day gave orders to his army, to go up against Bethulia. +Judith Jdt 18 7 2 Now there were in his troops a hundred and twenty thousand footmen, and two and twenty thousand horsemen, besides the preparations of those men who had been taken, and who had been brought away out of the provinces and cities of all the youth. +Judith Jdt 18 7 3 All these prepared themselves together to fight against the children of Israel, and they came by the hillside to the top, which looketh toward Dothain, from the place which is called Belma, unto Chelmon, which is over against Esdrelon. +Judith Jdt 18 7 4 But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, prostrated themselves upon the ground, putting ashes upon their heads, praying with one accord, that the God of Israel would shew his mercy upon his people. +Judith Jdt 18 7 5 And taking their arms of war, they posted themselves at the places, which by a narrow pathway lead directly between the mountains, and they guarded them all day and night. +Judith Jdt 18 7 6 Now Holofernes, in going round about, found that the fountain which supplied them with water, ran through an aqueduct without the city on the south side: and he commanded their aqueduct to be cut off. +Judith Jdt 18 7 7 Nevertheless there were springs not far from the walls, out of which they were seen secretly to draw water, to refresh themselves a little rather than to drink their fill. +Judith Jdt 18 7 8 But the children of Ammon and Moab came to Holofernes, saying: The children of Israel trust not in their spears, nor in their arrows, but the mountains are their defence, and the steep hills and precipices guard them. +Judith Jdt 18 7 9 Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them without joining battle, set guards at the springs that they may not draw water out of them, and thou shalt destroy them without sword, or at least being wearied out they will yield up their city, which they suppose, because it is situate in the mountains, to be impregnable. +Judith Jdt 18 7 10 And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he placed all round about a hundred men at every spring. +Judith Jdt 18 7 11 And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people by measure. +Judith Jdt 18 7 12 Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering themselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice, +Judith Jdt 18 7 13 Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands. +Judith Jdt 18 7 14 And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction. +Judith Jdt 18 7 15 And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our own accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes. +Judith Jdt 18 7 16 For it is better, that being captives we should live and bless the Lord, than that we should die, and be a reproach to all flesh, after we have seen our wives and our infants die before our eyes. +Judith Jdt 18 7 17 We call to witness this day heaven and earth, and the God of our fathers, who taketh vengeance upon us according to our sins, conjuring you to deliver now the city into the hand of the army of Holofernes, that our end may be short by the edge of the sword, which is made longer by the drought of thirst. +Judith Jdt 18 7 18 And when they had said these things, there was great weeping and lamentation of all in the assembly, and for many hours with one voice they cried to God, saying: +Judith Jdt 18 7 19 We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have committed iniquity: +Judith Jdt 18 7 20 Have thou mercy on us, because thou art good, or punish our iniquities by chastising us thyself, and deliver not them that trust in thee to a people that knoweth not thee, +Judith Jdt 18 7 21 That they may not say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? +Judith Jdt 18 7 22 And when being wearied with these cries, and tired with these weepings, they held their peace, +Judith Jdt 18 7 23 Ozias rising up all in tears, said: Be of good courage, my brethren, and let us wait these five days for mercy from the Lord. +Judith Jdt 18 7 24 For perhaps he will put a stop to his indignation, and will give glory to his own name. +Judith Jdt 18 7 25 But if after five days be past there come no aid, we will do the things which you have spoken. +Judith Jdt 18 8 1 Now it came to pass, when Judith a widow had heard these words, who was the daughter of Merari, the son of Idox, the son of Joseph, the son of Ozias, the son of Elai, the son of Jamnor, the son of Gedeon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Achitob, the son of Melchias, the son of Enan, the son of Nathanias, the son of Salathiel, the son of Simeon, the son of Ruben: +Judith Jdt 18 8 2 And her husband was Manasses, who died in the time of the barley harvest: +Judith Jdt 18 8 3 For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and the heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and was buried there with his fathers. +Judith Jdt 18 8 4 And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months. +Judith Jdt 18 8 5 And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her house, in which she abode shut up with her maids. +Judith Jdt 18 8 6 And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 8 7 And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great riches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep. +Judith Jdt 18 8 8 And she was greatly renowned among all, because she feared the Lord very much, neither was there any one that spoke an ill word of her. +Judith Jdt 18 8 9 When therefore she had heard that Ozias had promised that he would deliver up the city after the fifth day, she sent to the ancients Chabri and Charmi. +Judith Jdt 18 8 10 And they came to her, and she said to them: What is this word, by which Ozias hath consented to give up the city to the Assyrians, if within five days there come no aid to us? +Judith Jdt 18 8 11 And who are you that tempt the Lord? +Judith Jdt 18 8 12 This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and enkindle indignation. +Judith Jdt 18 8 13 You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have appointed him a day, according to your pleasure. +Judith Jdt 18 8 14 But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us be penitent for this same thing, and with many tears let us beg his pardon: +Judith Jdt 18 8 15 For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man. +Judith Jdt 18 8 16 And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service: +Judith Jdt 18 8 17 Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us: that as our heart is troubled by their pride, so also we may glorify in our humility. +Judith Jdt 18 8 18 For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook their God, and worshipped strange gods. +Judith Jdt 18 8 19 For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the sword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but him. +Judith Jdt 18 8 20 Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and the Lord our God will require our blood of the afflictions of our enemies, and he will humble all the nations that shall rise up against us, and bring them to disgrace. +Judith Jdt 18 8 21 And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly. +Judith Jdt 18 8 22 They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God. +Judith Jdt 18 8 23 So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful. +Judith Jdt 18 8 24 But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord, +Judith Jdt 18 8 25 Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents. +Judith Jdt 18 8 26 As for us therefore let us not revenge ourselves for these things which we suffer. +Judith Jdt 18 8 27 But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins deserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which like servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and not for our destruction. +Judith Jdt 18 8 28 And Ozias and the ancients said to her: All things which thou hast spoken are true, and there is nothing to be reprehended in thy words. +Judith Jdt 18 8 29 Now therefore pray for us, for thou art a holy woman, and one fearing God. +Judith Jdt 18 8 30 And Judith said to them: As you know that what I have been able to say is of God: +Judith Jdt 18 8 31 So that which I intend to do prove ye if it be of God, and pray that God may strengthen my design. +Judith Jdt 18 8 32 You shall stand at the gate this night, and I will go out with my maidservant: and pray ye, that as you have said, in five days the Lord may look down upon his people Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 8 33 But I desire that you search not into what I am doing, and till I bring you word let nothing else be done but to pray for me to the Lord our God. +Judith Jdt 18 8 34 And Ozias the prince of Juda said to her: Go in peace, and the Lord be with thee to take revenge of our enemies. So returning they departed. +Judith Jdt 18 9 1 And when they were gone, Judith went into her oratory: and putting on haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before the Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying: +Judith Jdt 18 9 2 Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute vengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and uncovered the virgin unto confusion: +Judith Jdt 18 9 3 And who gavest their wives to be made a prey, and their daughters into captivity: and all their spoils to be divided to the servants, who were zealous with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee, O Lord God, me a widow. +Judith Jdt 18 9 4 For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing after another: and what thou hast designed hath been done. +Judith Jdt 18 9 5 For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast placed thy judgments. +Judith Jdt 18 9 6 Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now, as thou wast pleased to look upon the camp of the Egyptians, when they pursued armed after thy servants, trusting in their chariots, and in their horsemen, and in a multitude of warriors. +Judith Jdt 18 9 7 But thou lookedst over their camp, and darkness wearied them. +Judith Jdt 18 9 8 The deep held their feet, and the waters overwhelmed them. +Judith Jdt 18 9 9 So may it be with these also, O Lord, who trust in their multitude, and in their chariots, and in their pikes, and in their shields, and in their arrows, and glory in their spears, +Judith Jdt 18 9 10 And know not that thou art our God, who destroyest wars from the beginning, and the Lord is thy name. +Judith Jdt 18 9 11 Lift up thy arm as from the beginning, and crush their power with thy power: let their power fall in their wrath, who promise themselves to violate thy sanctuary, and defile the dwelling place of thy name, and to beat down with their sword the horn of thy altar. +Judith Jdt 18 9 12 Bring to pass, O Lord, that his pride may be cut off with his own sword. +Judith Jdt 18 9 13 Let him be caught in the net of his own eyes in my regard, and do thou strike him by the graces of the words of my lips. +Judith Jdt 18 9 14 Give me constancy in my mind, that I may despise him: and fortitude that I may overthrow him. +Judith Jdt 18 9 15 For this will be a glorious monument for thy name, when he shall fall by the hand of a woman. +Judith Jdt 18 9 16 For thy power, O Lord, is not in a multitude, nor is thy pleasure in the strength of horses, nor from the beginning have the proud been acceptable to thee: but the prayer of the humble and the meek hath always pleased thee. +Judith Jdt 18 9 17 O God of the heavens, creator of the waters, and Lord of the whole creation, hear me a poor wretch, making supplication to thee, and presuming of thy mercy. +Judith Jdt 18 9 18 Remember, O Lord, thy covenant, and put thou words in my mouth, and strengthen the resolution in my heart, that thy house may continue in thy holiness: +Judith Jdt 18 9 19 And all nations may acknowledge that thou art God, and there is no other besides thee. +Judith Jdt 18 10 1 And it came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the Lord, that she rose from the place wherein she lay prostrate before the Lord. +Judith Jdt 18 10 2 And she called her maid, and going down into her house she took off her haircloth, and put away the garments of her widowhood, +Judith Jdt 18 10 3 And she washed her body, and anointed herself with the best ointment, and plaited the hair of her head, and put a bonnet upon her head, and clothed herself with the garments of her gladness, and put sandals on her feet, and took her bracelets, and lilies, and earlets, and rings, and adorned herself with all her ornaments. +Judith Jdt 18 10 4 And the Lord also gave her more beauty: because all this dressing up did not proceed from sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the Lord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men's eyes incomparably lovely. +Judith Jdt 18 10 5 And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to carry, and a vessel of oil, and parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and cheese, and went out. +Judith Jdt 18 10 6 And when they came to the gate of the city, they found Ozias, and the ancients of the city waiting. +Judith Jdt 18 10 7 And when they saw her they were astonished, and admired her beauty exceedingly. +Judith Jdt 18 10 8 But they asked her no question, only they let her pass, saying: The God of our fathers give thee grace, and may he strengthen all the counsel of thy heart with his power, that Jerusalem may glory in thee, and thy name may be in the number of the holy and just. +Judith Jdt 18 10 9 And they that were there said, all with one voice: So be it, so be it. +Judith Jdt 18 10 10 But Judith praying to the Lord, passed through the gates, she and her maid. +Judith Jdt 18 10 11 And it came to pass, when she went down the hill, about break of day, that the watchmen of the Assyrians met her, and stopped her, saying: Whence comest thou or whither goest thou? +Judith Jdt 18 10 12 And she answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews, and I am fled from them, because I knew they would be made a prey to you, because they despised you, and would not of their own accord yield themselves, that they might find mercy in your sight. +Judith Jdt 18 10 13 For this reason I thought with myself, saying: I will go to the presence of the prince Holofernes, that I may tell him their secrets, and shew him by what way he may take them, without the loss of one man of his army. +Judith Jdt 18 10 14 And when the men had heard her words, they beheld her face, and their eyes were amazed, for they wondered exceedingly at her beauty. +Judith Jdt 18 10 15 And they said to her: Thou hast saved thy life by taking this resolution, to come down to our lord. +Judith Jdt 18 10 16 And be assured of this, that when thou shalt stand before him, he will treat thee well, and thou wilt be most acceptable to his heart. And they brought her to the tent of Holofernes, telling him of her. +Judith Jdt 18 10 17 And when she was come into his presence, forthwith Holofernes was caught by his eyes. +Judith Jdt 18 10 18 And his officers said to him: Who can despise the people of the Hebrews, who have such beautiful women, that we should not think it worth our while for their sakes to fight against them? +Judith Jdt 18 10 19 And Judith seeing Holofernes sitting under a canopy, which was woven of purple and gold, with emeralds and precious stones: +Judith Jdt 18 10 20 After she had looked on his face, bowed down to him, prostrating herself to the ground. And the servants of Holofernes lifted her up, by the command of their master. +Judith Jdt 18 11 1 Then Holofernes said to her: Be of good comfort, and fear not in thy heart: for I have never hurt a man that was willing to serve Nabuchodonosor the king. +Judith Jdt 18 11 2 And if thy people had not despised me, I would never have lifted up my spear against them. +Judith Jdt 18 11 3 But now tell me, for what cause hast thou left them, and why it hath pleased thee to come to us? +Judith Jdt 18 11 4 And Judith said to him: Receive the words of thy handmaid, for if thou wilt follow the words of thy handmaid, the Lord will do with thee a perfect thing. +Judith Jdt 18 11 5 For as Nabuchodonosor the king of the earth liveth, and his power liveth which is in thee for chastising of all straying souls: not only men serve him through thee, but also the beasts of the field obey him. +Judith Jdt 18 11 6 For the industry of thy mind is spoken of among all nations, and it is told through the whole world, that thou only art excellent, and mighty in all his kingdom, and thy discipline is cried up in all provinces. +Judith Jdt 18 11 7 It is known also what Achior said, nor are we ignorant of what thou hast commanded to be done to him. +Judith Jdt 18 11 8 For it is certain that our God is so offended with sins, that he hath sent word by his prophets to the people, that he will deliver them up for their sins. +Judith Jdt 18 11 9 And because the children of Israel know they have offended their God, thy dread is upon them. +Judith Jdt 18 11 10 Moreover also a famine hath come upon them, and for drought of water they are already to be counted among the dead. +Judith Jdt 18 11 11 And they have a design even to kill their cattle, and to drink the blood of them. +Judith Jdt 18 11 12 And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God forbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed to make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought not to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things, it is certain they will be given up to destruction. +Judith Jdt 18 11 13 And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord hath sent me to tell thee these very things. +Judith Jdt 18 11 14 For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and thy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God, +Judith Jdt 18 11 15 And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark against thee: +Judith Jdt 18 11 16 Because these things are told me by the providence of God. +Judith Jdt 18 11 17 And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very things to thee. +Judith Jdt 18 11 18 And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and they admired her wisdom, and they said one to another: +Judith Jdt 18 11 19 There is not such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty, and in sense of words. +Judith Jdt 18 11 20 And Holofernes said to her: God hath done well who sent thee before the people, that thou mightest give them into our hands: +Judith Jdt 18 11 21 And because thy promise is good, if thy God shall do this for me, he shall also be my God, and thou shalt be great in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned through all the earth. +Judith Jdt 18 12 1 Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be given her from his own table. +Judith Jdt 18 12 2 And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these things which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but I will eat of the things which I have brought. +Judith Jdt 18 12 3 And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast brought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee? +Judith Jdt 18 12 4 And Judith said: As thy soul liveth, my lord, thy handmaid shall not spend all these things till God do by my hand that which I have purposed. And his servants brought her into the tent which he had commanded. +Judith Jdt 18 12 5 And when she was going in, she desired that she might have liberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord. +Judith Jdt 18 12 6 And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in, to adore her God as she pleased, for three days. +Judith Jdt 18 12 7 And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water. +Judith Jdt 18 12 8 And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, that he would direct her way to the deliverance of his people. +Judith Jdt 18 12 9 And going in, she remained pure in the tent, until she took her own meat in the evening. +Judith Jdt 18 12 10 And it came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a supper for his servants, and said to Vagao his eunuch: Go, and persuade that Hebrew woman, to consent of her own accord to dwell with me. +Judith Jdt 18 12 11 For it is looked upon as shameful among the Assyrians, if a woman mock a man, by doing so as to pass free from him. +Judith Jdt 18 12 12 Then Vagao went in to Judith, and said: Let not my good maid be afraid to go in to my lord, that she may be honoured before his face, that she may eat with him and drink wine and be merry. +Judith Jdt 18 12 13 And Judith answered him: Who am I, that I should gainsay my lord? +Judith Jdt 18 12 14 All that shall be good and best before his eyes, I will do. And whatsoever shall please him, that shall be best to me all the days of my life. +Judith Jdt 18 12 15 And she arose and dressed herself out with her garments, and going in she stood before his face. +Judith Jdt 18 12 16 And the heart of Holofernes was smitten, for he was burning with the desire of her. +Judith Jdt 18 12 17 And Holofernes said to her: Drink now, and sit down and be merry; for thou hast found favour before me. +Judith Jdt 18 12 18 And Judith said: I will drink my lord, because my life is magnified this day above all my days. +Judith Jdt 18 12 19 And she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared for her. +Judith Jdt 18 12 20 And Holofernes was made merry on her occasion, and drank exceeding much wine, so much as he had never drunk in his life. +Judith Jdt 18 13 1 And when it was grown late, his servants made haste to their lodgings, and Vagao shut the chamber doors, and went his way. +Judith Jdt 18 13 2 And they were all overcharged with wine. +Judith Jdt 18 13 3 And Judith was alone in the chamber. +Judith Jdt 18 13 4 But Holofernes lay on his bed, fast asleep, being exceedingly drunk. +Judith Jdt 18 13 5 And Judith spoke to her maid to stand without before the chamber, and to watch: +Judith Jdt 18 13 6 And Judith stood before the bed praying with tears, and the motion of her lips in silence, +Judith Jdt 18 13 7 Saying: Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, and in this hour look on the works of my hands, that as thou hast promised, thou mayst raise up Jerusalem thy city: and that I may bring to pass that which I have purposed, having a belief that it might be done by thee. +Judith Jdt 18 13 8 And when she had said this, she went to the pillar that was at his bed's head, and loosed his sword that hung tied upon it. +Judith Jdt 18 13 9 And when she had drawn it out, she took him by the hair of his head, and said: Strengthen me, O Lord God, at this hour. +Judith Jdt 18 13 10 And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and took off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless body. +Judith Jdt 18 13 11 And after a while she went out, and delivered the head of Holofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet. +Judith Jdt 18 13 12 And they two went out according to their custom, as it were to prayer, and they passed the camp, and having compassed the valley, they came to the gate of the city. +Judith Jdt 18 13 13 And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls: Open the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 13 14 And it came to pass, when the men had heard her voice, that they called the ancients of the city. +Judith Jdt 18 13 15 And all ran to meet her from the least to the greatest: for they now had no hopes that she would come. +Judith Jdt 18 13 16 And lighting up lights they all gathered round about her: and she went up to a higher place, and commanded silence to be made. And when all had held their peace, +Judith Jdt 18 13 17 Judith said: Praise ye the Lord our God, who hath not forsaken them that hope in him. +Judith Jdt 18 13 18 And by me his handmaid he hath fulfilled his mercy, which he promised to the house of Israel: and he hath killed the enemy of his people by my hand this night. +Judith Jdt 18 13 19 Then she brought forth the head of Holofernes out of the wallet, and shewed it them, saying: Behold the head of Holofernes the general of the army of the Assyrians, and behold his canopy, wherein he lay in his drunkenness, where the Lord our God slew him by the hand of a woman. +Judith Jdt 18 13 20 But as the same Lord liveth, his angel hath been my keeper both going hence, and abiding there, and returning from thence hither: and the Lord hath not suffered me his handmaid to be defiled, but hath brought me back to you without pollution of sin, rejoicing for his victory, for my escape, and for your deliverance. +Judith Jdt 18 13 21 Give all of you glory to him, because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever. +Judith Jdt 18 13 22 And they all adored the Lord, and said to her: The Lord hath blessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies to nought. +Judith Jdt 18 13 23 And Ozias the prince of the people of Israel, said to her: Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth. +Judith Jdt 18 13 24 Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies. +Judith Jdt 18 13 25 Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God. +Judith Jdt 18 13 26 And all the people said: So be it, so be it. +Judith Jdt 18 13 27 And Achior being called for came, and Judith said to him: The God of Israel, to whom thou gavest testimony, that he revengeth himself of his enemies, he hath cut off the head of all the unbelievers this night by my hand. +Judith Jdt 18 13 28 And that thou mayst find that it is so, behold the head of Holofernes, who in the contempt of his pride despised the God of Israel: and threatened them with death, saying: When the people of Israel shall be taken, I will command thy sides to be pierced with a sword. +Judith Jdt 18 13 29 Then Achior seeing the head of Holofernes, being seized with a great fear he fell on his face upon the earth, and his soul swooned away. +Judith Jdt 18 13 30 But after he had recovered his spirits he fell down at her feet, and reverenced her, and said: +Judith Jdt 18 13 31 Blessed art thou by thy God in every tabernacle of Jacob, for in every nation which shall hear thy name, the God of Israel shall be magnified on occasion of thee. +Judith Jdt 18 14 1 And Judith said to all the people: Hear me, my brethren, hang ye up this head upon our walls. +Judith Jdt 18 14 2 And as soon as the sun shall rise, let every man take his arms, and rush ye out, not as going down beneath, but as making an assault. +Judith Jdt 18 14 3 Then the watchmen must needs run to awake their prince for the battle. +Judith Jdt 18 14 4 And when the captains of them shall run to the tent of Holofernes, and shall find him without his head wallowing in his blood, fear shall fall upon them. +Judith Jdt 18 14 5 And when you shall know that they are fleeing, go after them securely, for the Lord will destroy them under your feet. +Judith Jdt 18 14 6 Then Achior seeing the power that the God of Israel had wrought, leaving the religion of the Gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel, with all the succession of his kindred until this present day. +Judith Jdt 18 14 7 And immediately at break of day, they hung up the head of Holofernes upon the walls, and every man took his arms, and they went out with a great noise and shouting. +Judith Jdt 18 14 8 And the watchmen seeing this, ran to the tent of Holofernes. +Judith Jdt 18 14 9 And they that were in the tent came, and made a noise, before the door of the chamber to awake him, endeavouring by art to break his rest, that Holofernes might awake, not by their calling him, but by their noise. +Judith Jdt 18 14 10 For no man durst knock, or open and go into the chamber of the general of the Assyrians. +Judith Jdt 18 14 11 But when his captains and tribunes were come, and all the chiefs of the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains: +Judith Jdt 18 14 12 Go in, and awake him, for the mice, coming out of their holes, have presumed to challenge us to fight. +Judith Jdt 18 14 13 Then Vagao going into his chamber, stood before the curtain, and made a clapping with his hands: for he thought that he was sleeping with Judith. +Judith Jdt 18 14 14 But when with hearkening, he perceived no motion of one lying, he came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of Holofernes, lying upon the ground, without the head, weltering in his blood, he cried out with a loud voice, with weeping, and rent his garments. +Judith Jdt 18 14 15 And he went into the tent of Judith, and not finding her, he ran out to the people, +Judith Jdt 18 14 16 And said: One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and his head is not upon him. +Judith Jdt 18 14 17 Now when the chiefs of the army of the Assyrians had heard this, they all rent their garments, and an intolerable fear and dread fell upon them, and their minds were troubled exceedingly. +Judith Jdt 18 14 18 And there was a very great cry in the midst of their camp. +Judith Jdt 18 15 1 And when all the army heard that Holofernes was beheaded, courage and counsel fled from them, and being seized with trembling and fear they thought only to save themselves by flight. +Judith Jdt 18 15 2 So that no one spoke to his neighbour, but hanging down the head, leaving all things behind, they made haste to escape from the Hebrews, who, as they heard, were coming armed upon them, and fled by the ways of the fields, and the paths of the hills. +Judith Jdt 18 15 3 So the children of Israel seeing them fleeing, followed after them. And they went down sounding with trumpets and shouting after them. +Judith Jdt 18 15 4 And because the Assyrians were not united together, they went without order in their flight; but the children of Israel pursuing in one body, defeated all that they could find. +Judith Jdt 18 15 5 And Ozias sent messengers through all the cities and countries of Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 15 6 And every country, and every city, sent their chosen young men armed after them, and they pursued them with the edge of the sword until they came to the extremities of their confines. +Judith Jdt 18 15 7 And the rest that were in Bethulia went into the camp of the Assyrians, and took away the spoils which the Assyrians in their flight had left behind them, and they were laden exceedingly, +Judith Jdt 18 15 8 But they that returned conquerors to Bethulia, brought with them all things that were theirs, so that there was no numbering of their cattle, and beasts, and all their moveables, insomuch that from the least to the greatest all were made rich by their spoils. +Judith Jdt 18 15 9 And Joachim the high priest came from Jerusalem to Bethulia with all his ancients to see Judith. +Judith Jdt 18 15 10 And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one voice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honour of our people: +Judith Jdt 18 15 11 For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart has been strengthened, because thou hast loved chastity, and after thy husband hast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath strengthened thee, and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever. +Judith Jdt 18 15 12 And all the people said: So be it, so be it. +Judith Jdt 18 15 13 And thirty days were scarce sufficient for the people of Israel to gather up the spoils of the Assyrians. +Judith Jdt 18 15 14 But all those things that were proved to be the peculiar goods of Holofernes, they gave to Judith in gold, and silver, and garments and precious stones, and all household stuff, and they all were delivered to her by the people. +Judith Jdt 18 15 15 And all the people rejoiced, with the women, and virgins, and young men, playing on instruments and harps. +Judith Jdt 18 16 1 Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, saying: +Judith Jdt 18 16 2 Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, tune unto him a new psalm, extol and call upon his name. +Judith Jdt 18 16 3 The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name. +Judith Jdt 18 16 4 He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies. +Judith Jdt 18 16 5 The Assyrian came out of the mountains from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys. +Judith Jdt 18 16 6 He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my young men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins captives. +Judith Jdt 18 16 7 But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman, and hath slain him. +Judith Jdt 18 16 8 For their mighty one did not fall by young men, neither did the sons of Titan strike him, nor tall giants oppose themselves to him, but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her face. +Judith Jdt 18 16 9 For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 16 10 She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new robe to deceive him. +Judith Jdt 18 16 11 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut off his head. +Judith Jdt 18 16 12 The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her boldness. +Judith Jdt 18 16 13 Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones appeared, parched with thirst. +Judith Jdt 18 16 14 The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and they have killed them like children fleeing away: they perished in battle before the face of the Lord my God. +Judith Jdt 18 16 15 Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing a new hymn to our God. +Judith Jdt 18 16 16 O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and no one can overcome thee. +Judith Jdt 18 16 17 Let all thy creatures serve thee: because thou hast spoken, and they were made: thou didst send forth thy spirit, and they were created, and there is no one that can resist thy voice. +Judith Jdt 18 16 18 The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the waters: the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face. +Judith Jdt 18 16 19 But they that fear thee, shall be great with thee in all things. +Judith Jdt 18 16 20 Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people: for the Lord almighty will take revenge on them, in the day of judgment he will visit them. +Judith Jdt 18 16 21 For he will give fire, and worms into their flesh, that they may burn, and may feel for ever. +Judith Jdt 18 16 22 And it came to pass after these things, that all the people, after the victory, came to Jerusalem to adore the Lord: and as soon as they were purified, they all offered holocausts, and vows, and their promises. +Judith Jdt 18 16 23 And Judith offered for an anathema of oblivion all the arms of Holofernes, which the people gave her, and the canopy that she had taken away out of his chamber. +Judith Jdt 18 16 24 And the people were joyful in the sight of the sanctuary, and for three months the joy of this victory was celebrated with Judith. +Judith Jdt 18 16 25 And after those days every man returned to his house, and Judith was made great in Bethulia, and she was most renowned in all the land of Israel. +Judith Jdt 18 16 26 And chastity was joined to her virtue, so that she knew no man all the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband. +Judith Jdt 18 16 27 And on festival days she came forth with great glory. +Judith Jdt 18 16 28 And she abode in her husband's house a hundred and five years, and made her handmaid free, and she died, and was buried with her husband in Bethulia. +Judith Jdt 18 16 29 And all the people mourned for seven days. +Judith Jdt 18 16 30 And all the time of her life there was none that troubled Israel, nor many years after her death. +Judith Jdt 18 16 31 But the day of the festivity of this victory is received by the Hebrews in the number of holy days, and is religiously observed by the Jews from that time until this day. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 1 Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart: +Wisdom Wis 25 1 2 For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself to them that have faith in him. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 3 For perverse thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise: +Wisdom Wis 25 1 4 For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 5 For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 6 For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 7 For the Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 8 Therefore he that speaketh unjust things, cannot be hid, neither shall the chastising judgment pass him by. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 9 For inquisition shall be made into the thoughts of the ungodly, and the hearing of his words shall come to God, to the chastising of his iniquities. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 10 For the ear of jealousy heareth all things, and the tumult of murmuring shall not be hid. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 11 Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 12 Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 13 For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 14 For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 15 For justice is perpetual and immortal. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 16 But the wicked with works and words have called it to them: and esteeming it a friend, have fallen away and have made a covenant with it: because they are worthy to be of the part thereof. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 1 For they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The time of our life is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there is no remedy, and no man hath been known to have returned from hell: +Wisdom Wis 25 2 2 For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark to move our heart, +Wisdom Wis 25 2 3 Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof: +Wisdom Wis 25 2 4 And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 5 For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth: +Wisdom Wis 25 2 6 Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 8 Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 9 Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 10 Let us oppress the poor just man, and not spare the widow, nor honour the ancient grey hairs of the aged. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 11 But let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 12 Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 13 He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth himself the son of God. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 14 He is become a censurer of our thoughts. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 15 He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, and his ways are very different. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 16 We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 17 Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 18 For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 19 Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 20 Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 21 These things they thought, and were deceived: for their own malice blinded them. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 22 And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for the wages of justice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 23 For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own likeness he made him. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 24 But by the envy of the devil, death came into the world: +Wisdom Wis 25 2 25 And they follow him that are of his side. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 1 But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 2 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery: +Wisdom Wis 25 3 3 And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 4 And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 5 Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 6 As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 7 The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 8 They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 9 They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 10 But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 11 For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 12 Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 13 Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 14 And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 15 For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 16 But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 17 And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 18 And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 19 For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 1 How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 2 When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 3 But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 4 And if they flourish in branches for a time, yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 5 For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their fruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 6 For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 7 But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 8 For venerable old age is not that of long time, nor counted by the number of years: but the understanding of a man is grey hairs. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 9 And a spotless life is old age. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 10 He pleased God, and was beloved, and living among sinners, he was translated. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 11 He was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 12 For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the wandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 13 Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 14 For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts: +Wisdom Wis 25 4 15 That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 16 But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 17 For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 18 They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 19 And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 20 They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 1 Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 2 These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation, +Wisdom Wis 25 5 3 Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a parable of reproach. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 4 We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 5 Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 6 Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 7 We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us? +Wisdom Wis 25 5 9 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on, +Wisdom Wis 25 5 10 And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the waters: +Wisdom Wis 25 5 11 Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way: +Wisdom Wis 25 5 12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known: +Wisdom Wis 25 5 13 So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 14 Such things as these the sinners said in hell: +Wisdom Wis 25 5 15 For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 16 But the just shall live for evermore: and their reward is with the Lord, and the care of them with the most High. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 17 Therefore shall they receive a kingdom of glory, and a crown of beauty at the hand of the Lord: for with his right hand he will cover them, and with his holy arm he will defend them. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 18 And his zeal will take armour, and he will arm the creature for the revenge of his enemies. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 19 He will put on justice as a breastplate, and will take true judgment instead of a helmet: +Wisdom Wis 25 5 20 He will take equity for an invincible shield: +Wisdom Wis 25 5 21 And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 22 Then shafts of lightning shall go directly from the clouds, as from a bow well bent, they shall be shot out, and shall fly to the mark. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 23 And thick hail shall be cast upon them from the stone casting wrath: the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall run together in a terrible manner. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 24 A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 1 Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man is better than a strong man. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 2 Hear, therefore, ye kings, and understand, learn ye that are judges of the ends of the earth. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 3 Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations: +Wisdom Wis 25 6 4 For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works: and search out your thoughts: +Wisdom Wis 25 6 5 Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 6 Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 7 For to him that is little, mercy is granted: but the mighty shall be mightily tormented. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 8 For God will not except any man's person, neither will he stand in awe of any man's greatness: for he made the little and the great, and he hath equally care of all. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 9 But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 10 To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall from it. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 11 For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 12 Covet ye, therefore, my words, and love them, and you shall have instruction. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 13 Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away, and is easily seen by them that love her, and is found by them that seek her. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 14 She preventeth them that covet her, so that she first sheweth herself unto them. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 15 He that awaketh early to seek her, shall not labour: for he shall find her sitting at his door. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 16 To think, therefore, upon her, is perfect understanding: and he that watcheth for her, shall quickly be secure. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 17 For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, and she sheweth herself to them cheerfully in the ways, and meeteth them with all providence. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 18 For the beginning of her is the most true desire of discipline. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 19 And the care of discipline is love: and love is the keeping of her laws: and the keeping of her laws is the firm foundation of incorruption: +Wisdom Wis 25 6 20 And incorruption bringeth near to God. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 21 Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to the everlasting kingdom. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 22 If then your delight be in thrones, and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, love wisdom, that you may reign for ever. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 23 Love the light of wisdom, all ye that bear rule over peoples. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 24 Now what wisdom is, and what was her origin, I will declare: and I will not hide from you the mysteries of God, but will seek her out from the beginning of her birth, and bring the knowledge of her to light, and will not pass over the truth: +Wisdom Wis 25 6 25 Neither will I go with consuming envy: for such a man shall not be partaker of wisdom. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 26 Now the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the whole world: and a wise king is the upholding of the people. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 27 Receive, therefore, instruction by my words, and it shall be profitable to you. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 1 I myself am a mortal man, like all others, and of the race of him, that was first made of the earth, and in the womb of my mother I was fashioned to be flesh. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 2 In the time of ten months I was compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure of sleep concurring. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 3 And being born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, that is made alike, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 4 I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and with great cares. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 5 For none of the kings had any other beginning of birth. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 6 For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 7 Wherefore I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me: +Wisdom Wis 25 7 8 And I preferred her before kingdoms and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 9 Neither did I compare unto her any precious stone: for all gold, in comparison of her, is as a little sand; and silver, in respect to her, shall be counted as clay. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 10 I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for her light cannot be put out. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 11 Now all good things came to me together with her, and innumerable riches through her hands, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 12 And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I knew not that she was the mother of them all. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 13 Which I have learned without guile, and communicate without envy, and her riches I hide not. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 14 For she is an infinite treasure to men: which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts of discipline. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 15 And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise: +Wisdom Wis 25 7 16 For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and the knowledge and skill of works. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 17 For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are: to know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the elements, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 18 The beginning, and ending, and midst of the times, the alterations of their courses, and the changes of seasons, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 19 The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 20 The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the force of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and the virtues of roots, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 21 And all such things as are hid, and not foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 22 For in her is the spirit of understanding; holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 23 Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power, overseeing all things, and containing all spirits: intelligible, pure, subtile: +Wisdom Wis 25 7 24 For wisdom is more active than all active things; and reacheth everywhere, by reason of her purity. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 25 For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 26 For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 27 And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 28 For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 29 For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 30 For after this cometh night, but no evil can overcome wisdom. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 1 She reacheth, therefore, from end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 2 Her have I loved, and have sought her out from my youth, and have desired to take for my spouse, and I became a lover of her beauty. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 3 She glorifieth her nobility by being conversant with God: yea, and the Lord of all things hath loved her. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 4 For it is she that teacheth the knowledge of God and is the chooser of his works. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 5 And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than wisdom, which maketh all things? +Wisdom Wis 25 8 6 And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are? +Wisdom Wis 25 8 7 And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 8 And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 9 I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 10 For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young: +Wisdom Wis 25 8 11 And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be admired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall wonder at me. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 12 They shall wait for me when I hold my peace, and they shall look upon me when I speak; and if I talk much, they shall lay their hands on their mouth. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 13 Moreover, by the means of her I shall have immortality: and shall leave behind me an everlasting memory to them that come after me. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 14 I shall set the people in order: and nations shall be subject to me. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 15 Terrible kings hearing, shall be afraid of me: among the multitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 16 When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 17 Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality, +Wisdom Wis 25 8 18 And that there is great delight in her friendship, and inexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of conference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her words: I went about seeking, that I might take her to myself. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 19 And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 20 And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 21 And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it was, I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole heart: +Wisdom Wis 25 9 1 God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word, +Wisdom Wis 25 9 2 And by thy wisdom hast appointed man, that he should have dominion over the creature that was made by thee, +Wisdom Wis 25 9 3 That he should order the world according to equity and justice, and execute justice with an upright heart: +Wisdom Wis 25 9 4 Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne, and cast me not off from among thy children: +Wisdom Wis 25 9 5 For I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid, a weak man, and of short time, and falling short of the understanding of judgment and laws. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 6 For if one be perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 7 Thou hast chosen me to be king of thy people, and a judge of thy sons and daughters: +Wisdom Wis 25 9 8 And hast commanded me to build a temple on thy holy mount, and an altar in the city of thy dwelling place, a resemblance of thy holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning: +Wisdom Wis 25 9 9 And thy wisdom with thee, which knoweth thy works, which then also was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was agreeable to thy eyes, and what was right in thy commandments. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 10 Send her out of thy holy heaven, and from the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may know what is acceptable with thee: +Wisdom Wis 25 9 11 For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and shall lead me soberly in my works, and shall preserve me by her power. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 12 So shall my works be acceptable, and I shall govern thy people justly, and shall be worthy of the throne of my father. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 13 For who among men is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of God is? +Wisdom Wis 25 9 14 For the thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 15 For the corruptible body is a load upon the soul, and the earthly habitation presseth down the mind that museth upon many things. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 16 And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth: and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But the things that are in heaven, who shall search out? +Wisdom Wis 25 9 17 And who shall know thy thought, except thou give wisdom, and send thy holy Spirit from above: +Wisdom Wis 25 9 18 And so the ways of them that are upon earth may be corrected, and men may learn the things that please thee? +Wisdom Wis 25 9 19 For by wisdom they were healed, whosoever have pleased thee, O Lord, from the beginning. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 1 She preserved him, that was first formed by God, the father of the world, when he was created alone, +Wisdom Wis 25 10 2 And she brought him out of his sin, and gave him power to govern all things. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 3 But when the unjust went away from her in his anger, he perished by the fury wherewith he murdered his brother. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 4 For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 5 Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 6 She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis: +Wisdom Wis 25 10 7 Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 8 For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 9 But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow them that attend upon her. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 10 She conducted the just, when he fled from his brother's wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 11 In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 12 She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 13 She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 14 And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 15 She delivered the just people, and blameless seed, from the nations that oppressed them. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 16 She entered into the soul of the servant of God and stood against dreadful kings in wonders and signs. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 17 And she rendered to the just the wages of their labours, and conducted them in a wonderful way: and she was to them for a covert by day, and for the light of stars by night: +Wisdom Wis 25 10 18 And she brought them through the Red Sea, and carried them over through a great water. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 19 But their enemies she drowned in the sea, and from the depth of hell she brought them out. Therefore the just took the spoils of the wicked. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 20 And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord, and they praised with one accord thy victorious hand. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 21 For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of infants eloquent. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 1 She prospered their works in the hands of the holy prophet. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 2 They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in desert places they pitched their tents. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 3 They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of their adversaries. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 4 They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 5 For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced: +Wisdom Wis 25 11 6 By the same things they in their need were benefited. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 7 For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 8 And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for: +Wisdom Wis 25 11 9 Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 10 For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 11 For thou didst admonish and try them as a father: but the others, as a severe king, thou didst examine and condemn. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 12 For whether absent or present, they were tormented alike. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 13 For a double affliction came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 14 For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 15 For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end, when they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the just. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 16 But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance: +Wisdom Wis 25 11 17 That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 18 For thy almighty hand, which made the world of matter without form, was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions, +Wisdom Wis 25 11 19 Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage; either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes: +Wisdom Wis 25 11 20 Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 21 Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 22 For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm? +Wisdom Wis 25 11 23 For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 24 But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 25 For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 26 And how could any thing endure, if thou wouldst not? or be preserved, if not called by thee? +Wisdom Wis 25 11 27 But thou sparest all: because they are thine, O Lord, who lovest souls. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 1 O how good and sweet is thy Spirit, O Lord, in all things! +Wisdom Wis 25 12 2 And therefore thou chastisest them that err, by little and little: and admonishest them, and speakest to them, concerning the things wherein they offend: that leaving their wickedness, they may believe in thee, O Lord. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 3 For those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor, +Wisdom Wis 25 12 4 Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices, +Wisdom Wis 25 12 5 And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration, +Wisdom Wis 25 12 6 And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents, +Wisdom Wis 25 12 7 That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 8 Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 9 Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once: +Wisdom Wis 25 12 10 But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 11 For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 12 For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made ? +Wisdom Wis 25 12 13 For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 14 Neither shall king, nor tyrant, in thy sight inquire about them whom thou hast destroyed. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 15 For so much then, as thou art just, thou orderest all things justly: thinking it not agreeable to the power, to condemn him who deserveth not to be punished. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 16 For thy power is the beginning of justice: and because thou art Lord of all, thou makest thyself gracious to all. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 17 For thou shewest thy power, when men will not believe thee to be absolute in power, and thou convincest the boldness of them that know thee not. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 18 But thou being master of power, judgest with tranquillity, and with great favour disposest of us: for thy power is at hand when thou wilt. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 19 But thou hast taught thy people by such works, that they must be just and humane, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: because in judging, thou givest place for repentance for sins. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 20 For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy servants, and that deserved to die, with so great deliberation, giving them time and place whereby they might be changed from their wickedness: +Wisdom Wis 25 12 21 With what circumspection hast thou judged thy own children, to whose parents thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises? +Wisdom Wis 25 12 22 Therefore whereas thou chastisest us, thou scourgest our enemies very many ways, to the end that when we judge we may think on thy goodness: and when we are judged, we may hope for thy mercy. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 23 Wherefore thou hast also greatly tormented them, who, in their life, have lived foolishly and unjustly, by the same things which they worshipped. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 24 For they went astray for a long time in the ways of error, holding those things for gods which are the most worthless among beasts, living after the manner of children without understanding. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 25 Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 26 But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 27 For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 1 But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman: +Wisdom Wis 25 13 2 But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 3 With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 4 Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they: +Wisdom Wis 25 13 5 For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 6 But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 7 For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 8 But then again they are not to be pardoned. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 9 For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof? +Wisdom Wis 25 13 10 But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 11 Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life, +Wisdom Wis 25 13 12 And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat: +Wisdom Wis 25 13 13 And taking what was left thereof, which is good for nothing, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, carveth it diligently when he hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his art fashioneth it, and maketh it like the image of a man: +Wisdom Wis 25 13 14 Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it: +Wisdom Wis 25 13 15 And maketh a convenient dwelling place for it, and setting it in a wall, and fastening it with iron, +Wisdom Wis 25 13 16 Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 17 And then maketh prayer to it, enquiring concerning his substance, and his children, or his marriage. And he is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life: +Wisdom Wis 25 13 18 And for health he maketh supplication to the weak, and for life prayeth to that which is dead, and for help calleth upon that which is unprofitable: +Wisdom Wis 25 13 19 And for a good journey he petitioneth him that cannot walk: and for getting, and for working, and for the event of all things he asketh him that is unable to do any thing. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 1 Again, another designing to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more frail than the wood that carrieth him. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 2 For this the desire of gain devised, and the workman built it by his skill. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 3 But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves, +Wisdom Wis 25 14 4 Shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea, though a man went to sea without art. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 5 But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship, are saved. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 6 And from the beginning also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand, left to the world seed of generation. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 7 For blessed is the wood, by which justice cometh +Wisdom Wis 25 14 8 But the idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he because he made it; and it because being frail it is called a god. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 9 But to God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 10 For that which is made, together with him that made it, shall suffer torments. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 11 Therefore there shall be no respect had even to the idols of the Gentiles: because the creatures of God are turned to an abomination, and a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 12 For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the invention of them is the corruption of life. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 13 For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 14 For by the vanity of men they came into the world: and therefore they shall be found to come shortly to an end. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 15 For a father being afflicted with bitter grief, made to himself the image of his son, who was quickly taken away: and him who then had died as a man, he began now to worship as a god, and appointed him rites and sacrifices among his servants. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 16 Then, in process of time, wicked custom prevailing, this error was kept as a law, and statues were worshipped by the commandment of tyrants. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 17 And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an express image of the king, whom they had a mind to honour: that by this their diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 18 And to the worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 19 For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 20 And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god, that little before was but honoured as a man. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 21 And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 22 And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 23 For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness, +Wisdom Wis 25 14 24 So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery: +Wisdom Wis 25 14 25 And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft, and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good, +Wisdom Wis 25 14 26 Forgetfulness of God, defiling of souls, changing of nature, disorder in marriage, and the irregularity of adultery and uncleanness. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 27 For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 28 For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 29 For whilst they trust in idols, which are without life, though they swear amiss, they look not to be hurt. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 30 But for both these things they shall be justly punished, because they have thought not well of God, giving heed to idols, and have sworn unjustly, in guile despising justice. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 31 For it is not the power of them, by whom they swear, but the just vengeance of sinners always punisheth the transgression of the unjust. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 1 But thou, our God, art gracious and true, patient, and ordering all things in mercy. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 2 For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we are counted with thee. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 3 For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 4 For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours, +Wisdom Wis 25 15 5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 6 The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 7 The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 8 And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 9 But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 10 For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay: +Wisdom Wis 25 15 11 Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and him that inspired into him the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 12 Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 13 For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 14 But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure: +Wisdom Wis 25 15 15 For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 16 For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 17 For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 18 Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 19 Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 1 For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 2 Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat: +Wisdom Wis 25 16 3 To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 4 For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 5 For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were destroyed by the bitings of crooked serpents. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 6 But thy wrath endured not for ever, but they were troubled for a short time for their correction, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 7 For he that turned to it, was not healed by that which he saw, but by thee, the Saviour of all. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 8 And in this thou didst shew to our enemies, that thou art he who deliverest from all evil. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 9 For the bitings of locusts, and of flies, killed them, and there was found no remedy for their life: because they were worthy to be destroyed by such things. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 10 But not even the teeth of venomous serpents overcame thy children: for thy mercy came and healed them. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 11 For they were examined for the remembrance of thy words, and were quickly healed, lest falling into deep forgetfulness, they might not be able to use thy help. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 12 For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster, that healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 13 For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again: +Wisdom Wis 25 16 14 A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is received: +Wisdom Wis 25 16 15 But it is impossible to escape thy hand: +Wisdom Wis 25 16 16 For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 17 And which was wonderful, in water, which extinguisheth all things, the fire had more force: for the world fighteth for the just. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 18 For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might see, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 19 And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 20 Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 21 For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 22 But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that they might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the rain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 23 But this same again, that the just might be nourished, did even forget its own strength. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 24 For the creature serving thee, the Creator, is made fierce against the unjust for their punishment: and abateth its strength for the benefit of them that trust in thee. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 25 Therefore even then it was transformed into all things, and was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all, according to the will of them that desired it of thee: +Wisdom Wis 25 16 26 That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word preserveth them that believe in thee. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 27 For that which could not be destroyed by fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, presently melted away: +Wisdom Wis 25 16 28 That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 29 For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 1 For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 2 For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 3 And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 4 For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 5 And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 6 But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they thought the things which they saw to be worse: +Wisdom Wis 25 17 7 And the delusions of their magic art were put down, and their boasting of wisdom was reproachfully rebuked. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 8 For they who promised to drive away fears and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of a fear worthy to be laughed at. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 9 For though no terrible thing disturbed them: yet being scared with the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they died for fear and denying that they saw the air, which could by no means be avoided. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 10 For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 11 For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 12 And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 13 But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep, +Wisdom Wis 25 17 14 Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 15 Moreover, if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 16 For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 17 For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence, +Wisdom Wis 25 17 18 Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that could not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these things made them to swoon for fear. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 19 For the whole world was enlightened, with a clear light, and none were hindered in their labours. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 20 But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 1 But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee: +Wisdom Wis 25 18 2 And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 3 Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 4 The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 5 And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 6 For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 7 So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 8 For as thou didst punish the adversaries so thou didst also encourage and glorify us. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 9 For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 10 But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 11 And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 12 So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 13 For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 14 For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, +Wisdom Wis 25 18 15 Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction, +Wisdom Wis 25 18 16 With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth, reached even to heaven. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 17 Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 18 And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 19 For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 20 But the just also were afterwards touched by an assault of death, and there was a disturbance of the multitude in the wilderness: but thy wrath did not long continue; +Wisdom Wis 25 18 21 For a blameless man made haste to pry for the people, bringing forth the shield of his ministry, prayer, and by incense making supplication, withstood the wrath, and put an end to the calamity, shewing that he was thy servant. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 22 And he overcame the disturbance, not by strength of body nor with force of arms, but with a word he subdued him that punished them, alleging the oath and covenant made with the fathers. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 23 For when they were now fallen down dead by heaps one upon another, he stood between and stayed the assault, and cut off the way to the living. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 24 For in the priestly robe which he wore, was the whole world: and in the four rows of the stones, the glory of the fathers was graven, and thy majesty was written upon the diadem of his head. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 25 And to these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for the proof only of wrath was enough. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 1 But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do: +Wisdom Wis 25 19 2 For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 3 For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone: +Wisdom Wis 25 19 4 For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments: +Wisdom Wis 25 19 5 And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 6 For every creature, according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 7 For a cloud overshadowed their camps and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hindrance, and out of the great deep a springing field: +Wisdom Wis 25 19 8 Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 9 For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 10 For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 11 And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 12 For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 13 For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 14 And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 15 But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 16 But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 17 For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 18 For the things of the land were turned into things of the water: and the things that before swam in the water passed upon the land. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 19 The fire had power in water above its own virtue, and the water forgot its quenching nature. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 20 On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of corruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good food, which was apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them, and didst not despise them, but didst assist them at all times, and in every place. +Sirach Sir 26 1 1 All wisdom is from the Lord God, and hath been always with him, and is before all time. +Sirach Sir 26 1 2 Who hath numbered the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of the world? Who hath measured the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss? +Sirach Sir 26 1 3 Who hath searched out the wisdom of God that goeth before all things? +Sirach Sir 26 1 4 Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting. +Sirach Sir 26 1 5 The word of God on high is the fountain of wisdom, and her ways are everlasting commandments. +Sirach Sir 26 1 6 To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed, and who hath known her wise counsels? +Sirach Sir 26 1 7 To whom hath the discipline of wisdom been revealed and made manifest? and who hath understood the multiplicity of her steps? +Sirach Sir 26 1 8 There is one most high Creator Almighty, and a powerful king, and greatly to be feared, who sitteth upon his throne, and is the God of dominion. +Sirach Sir 26 1 9 He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw her, and numbered her, and measured her. +Sirach Sir 26 1 10 And he poured her out upon all his works, and upon all flesh according to his gift, and hath given her to them that love him. +Sirach Sir 26 1 11 The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a crown of joy. +Sirach Sir 26 1 12 The fear of the Lord shall delight the heart, and shall give joy, and gladness, and length of days. +Sirach Sir 26 1 13 With him that feareth the Lord, it shall go well in the latter end, and in the day of his death he shall be blessed. +Sirach Sir 26 1 14 The love of God is honourable wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 1 15 And they to whom she shall shew herself love her by the sight, and by the knowledge of her great works. +Sirach Sir 26 1 16 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and was created with the faithful in the womb, it walketh with chosen women, and is known with the just and faithful. +Sirach Sir 26 1 17 The fear of the Lord is the religiousness of knowledge. +Sirach Sir 26 1 18 Religiousness shall keep and justify the heart, it shall give joy and gladness. +Sirach Sir 26 1 19 It shall go well with him that feareth the Lord, and in the days of his end he shall be blessed. +Sirach Sir 26 1 20 To fear God is the fulness of wisdom, and fulness is from the fruits thereof. +Sirach Sir 26 1 21 She shall fill all her house with her increase, and the storehouses with her treasures. +Sirach Sir 26 1 22 The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, filling up peace and the fruit of salvation: +Sirach Sir 26 1 23 And it hath seen, and numbered her: but both are the gifts of God. +Sirach Sir 26 1 24 Wisdom shall distribute knowledge, and understanding of prudence: and exalteth the glory of them that hold her. +Sirach Sir 26 1 25 The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord: and the branches thereof are long-lived. +Sirach Sir 26 1 26 In the treasures of wisdom is understanding, and religiousness of knowledge: but to sinners wisdom is an abomination. +Sirach Sir 26 1 27 The fear of the Lord driveth out sin: +Sirach Sir 26 1 28 For he that is without fear, cannot be justified: for the wrath of his high spirits is his ruin. +Sirach Sir 26 1 29 A patient man shall bear for a time, and afterwards joy shall be restored to him. +Sirach Sir 26 1 30 A good understanding will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 1 31 In the treasures of wisdom is the signification of discipline: +Sirach Sir 26 1 32 But the worship of God is an abomination to a sinner. +Sirach Sir 26 1 33 Son, if thou desire wisdom, keep justice, and God will give her to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 1 34 For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and discipline: and that which is agreeable to him, +Sirach Sir 26 1 35 Is faith, and meekness: and he will fill up his treasures. +Sirach Sir 26 1 36 Be not incredulous to the fear of the Lord: and come not to him with a double heart. +Sirach Sir 26 1 37 Be not a hypocrite in the sight of men, and let not thy lips be a stumblingblock to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 1 38 Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, +Sirach Sir 26 1 39 And God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation. +Sirach Sir 26 1 40 Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly, and thy heart is full of guile and deceit. +Sirach Sir 26 2 1 Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation. +Sirach Sir 26 2 2 Humble thy heart, and endure: incline thy ear, and receive the words of understanding: and make not haste in the time of clouds. +Sirach Sir 26 2 3 Wait on God with patience: join thyself to God, and endure, that thy life may be increased in the latter end. +Sirach Sir 26 2 4 Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow endure, and in thy humiliation keep patience. +Sirach Sir 26 2 5 For gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation. +Sirach Sir 26 2 6 Believe God, and he will recover thee: and direct thy way, and trust in him. Keep his fear, and grow old therein. +Sirach Sir 26 2 7 Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy: and go not aside from him lest ye fall. +Sirach Sir 26 2 8 Ye that fear the Lord, believe him: and your reward shall not be made void. +Sirach Sir 26 2 9 Ye that fear the Lord hope in him, and mercy shall come to you for your delight. +Sirach Sir 26 2 10 Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be enlightened. +Sirach Sir 26 2 11 My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded. +Sirach Sir 26 2 12 For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him? +Sirach Sir 26 2 13 For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth. +Sirach Sir 26 2 14 Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways. +Sirach Sir 26 2 15 Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected by him. +Sirach Sir 26 2 16 Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways. +Sirach Sir 26 2 17 And what will they do, when the Lord shall begin to examine? +Sirach Sir 26 2 18 They that fear the Lord, will not be incredulous to his word: and they that love him, will keep his way. +Sirach Sir 26 2 19 They that fear the Lord, will seek after the things that are well pleasing to him: and they that love him, shall be filled with his law. +Sirach Sir 26 2 20 They that fear the Lord, will prepare their hearts, and in his sight will sanctify their souls, +Sirach Sir 26 2 21 They that fear the Lord, keep his commandments, and will have patience even until his visitation, +Sirach Sir 26 2 22 Saying: If we do not penance, we shall fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men. +Sirach Sir 26 2 23 For according to his greatness, so also is his mercy with him. +Sirach Sir 26 3 1 The sons of wisdom are the church of the just: and their generation, obedience and love. +Sirach Sir 26 3 2 Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may be saved. +Sirach Sir 26 3 3 For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and seeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the children. +Sirach Sir 26 3 4 He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days. +Sirach Sir 26 3 5 And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a treasure. +Sirach Sir 26 3 6 He that honoureth his father shall have joy in his own children, and in the day of his prayer he shall be heard. +Sirach Sir 26 3 7 He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that obeyeth the father, shall be a comfort to his mother. +Sirach Sir 26 3 8 He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve them as his masters that brought him into the world. +Sirach Sir 26 3 9 Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience, +Sirach Sir 26 3 10 That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end. +Sirach Sir 26 3 11 The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation. +Sirach Sir 26 3 12 Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no glory to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 3 13 For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a father without honour is the disgrace of the son. +Sirach Sir 26 3 14 Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his life; +Sirach Sir 26 3 15 And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and despise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall not be forgotten. +Sirach Sir 26 3 16 For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother. +Sirach Sir 26 3 17 And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of affliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather. +Sirach Sir 26 3 18 Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth his mother. +Sirach Sir 26 3 19 My son, do thy works in meekness, and thou shalt be beloved above the glory of men. +Sirach Sir 26 3 20 The greater thou art, the more humble thyself in all things, and thou shalt find grace before God: +Sirach Sir 26 3 21 For great is the power of God alone, and he is honoured by the humble. +Sirach Sir 26 3 22 Seek not the things that are too high for thee, and search not into things above thy ability: but the things that God hath commanded thee, think on them always, and in many of his works be not curious. +Sirach Sir 26 3 23 For it is not necessary for thee to see with thy eyes those things that are hid. +Sirach Sir 26 3 24 In unnecessary matters be not over curious, and in many of his works thou shalt not be inquisitive. +Sirach Sir 26 3 25 For many things are shewn to thee above the understanding of men. +Sirach Sir 26 3 26 And the suspicion of them hath deceived many, and hath detained their minds in vanity. +Sirach Sir 26 3 27 A hard heart shall fear evil at the last: and he that loveth danger shall perish in it. +Sirach Sir 26 3 28 A heart that goeth two ways shall not have success, and the perverse of heart shall be scandalized therein. +Sirach Sir 26 3 29 A wicked heart shall be laden with sorrows, and the sinner will add sin to sin. +Sirach Sir 26 3 30 The congregation of the proud shall not be healed: for the plant of wickedness shall take root in them, and it shall not be perceived. +Sirach Sir 26 3 31 The heart of the wise is understood in wisdom, and a good ear will hear wisdom with all desire. +Sirach Sir 26 3 32 A wise heart, and which hath understanding, will abstain from sins, and in the works of justice shall have success. +Sirach Sir 26 3 33 Water quencheth a flaming fire, and alms resisteth sins: +Sirach Sir 26 3 34 And God provideth for him that sheweth favour: he remembereth him afterwards, and in the time of his fall he shall find a sure stay. +Sirach Sir 26 4 1 Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from the poor. +Sirach Sir 26 4 2 Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke not the poor in his want. +Sirach Sir 26 4 3 Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to gibe to him that is in distress. +Sirach Sir 26 4 4 Reject not the petition of the afflicted: and turn not away thy face from the needy. +Sirach Sir 26 4 5 Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy back. +Sirach Sir 26 4 6 For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of his soul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear him. +Sirach Sir 26 4 7 Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble thy soul to the ancient, and bow thy head to a great man. +Sirach Sir 26 4 8 Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness. +Sirach Sir 26 4 9 Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy soul. +Sirach Sir 26 4 10 In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother. +Sirach Sir 26 4 11 And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more than a mother. +Sirach Sir 26 4 12 Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that seek after her, and will go before them in the way of justice. +Sirach Sir 26 4 13 And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her, shall embrace her sweetness. +Sirach Sir 26 4 14 They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing. +Sirach Sir 26 4 15 They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her. +Sirach Sir 26 4 16 He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure. +Sirach Sir 26 4 17 If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance. +Sirach Sir 26 4 18 For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him. +Sirach Sir 26 4 19 She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul. +Sirach Sir 26 4 20 Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy, +Sirach Sir 26 4 21 And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice. +Sirach Sir 26 4 22 But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy. +Sirach Sir 26 4 23 Son, observe the time, and fly from evil. +Sirach Sir 26 4 24 For thy soul be not ashamed to say the truth. +Sirach Sir 26 4 25 For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and there is a shame that bringeth glory and grace. +Sirach Sir 26 4 26 Accept no person against thy own person, nor against thy soul a lie. +Sirach Sir 26 4 27 Reverence not thy neighbour in his fall: +Sirach Sir 26 4 28 And refrain not to speak in the time of salvation. Hide not thy wisdom in her beauty. +Sirach Sir 26 4 29 For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and knowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in the works of justice. +Sirach Sir 26 4 30 In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance. +Sirach Sir 26 4 31 Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to every man for sin. +Sirach Sir 26 4 32 Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive against the stream of the river. +Sirach Sir 26 4 33 Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto death fight for justice, and God will overthrow thy enemies for thee. +Sirach Sir 26 4 34 Be not hasty in thy tongue: and slack and remiss in thy works. +Sirach Sir 26 4 35 Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household, and oppressing them that are under thee. +Sirach Sir 26 4 36 Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldst give. +Sirach Sir 26 5 1 Set not thy heart upon unjust possessions, and say not: I have enough to live on: for it shall be of no service in the time of vengeance and darkness. +Sirach Sir 26 5 2 Follow not in thy strength the desires of thy heart: +Sirach Sir 26 5 3 And say not: How mighty am I? and who shall bring me under for my deeds? for God will surely take revenge. +Sirach Sir 26 5 4 Say not: I have sinned, and what harm hath befallen me? for the most High is a patient rewarder. +Sirach Sir 26 5 5 Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and add not sin upon sin: +Sirach Sir 26 5 6 And say not: The mercy of the Lord is great, he will have mercy on the multitude of my sins. +Sirach Sir 26 5 7 For mercy and wrath quickly come from him, and his wrath looketh upon sinners. +Sirach Sir 26 5 8 Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day to day. +Sirach Sir 26 5 9 For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee. +Sirach Sir 26 5 10 Be not anxious for goods unjustly gotten: for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity and revenge. +Sirach Sir 26 5 11 Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so is every sinner proved by a double tongue. +Sirach Sir 26 5 12 Be steadfast in the way of the Lord, and in the truth of thy judgment, and in knowledge, and let the word of peace and justice keep with thee. +Sirach Sir 26 5 13 Be meek to hear the word, that thou mayst understand: and return a true answer with wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 5 14 If thou have understanding, answer thy neighbour: but if not, let thy hand be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful word, and be confounded. +Sirach Sir 26 5 15 Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin. +Sirach Sir 26 5 16 Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded. +Sirach Sir 26 5 17 For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach. +Sirach Sir 26 5 18 Justify alike the small and the great. +Sirach Sir 26 6 1 Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious and double tongued. +Sirach Sir 26 6 2 Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly, +Sirach Sir 26 6 3 And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilderness. +Sirach Sir 26 6 4 For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked. +Sirach Sir 26 6 5 A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth. +Sirach Sir 26 6 6 Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor. +Sirach Sir 26 6 7 If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily. +Sirach Sir 26 6 8 For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble. +Sirach Sir 26 6 9 And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches. +Sirach Sir 26 6 10 And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress. +Sirach Sir 26 6 11 A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be to thee as thyself, and shall act with confidence among them of thy household. +Sirach Sir 26 6 12 If he humble himself before thee, and hide himself from thy face, thou shalt have unanimous friendship for good. +Sirach Sir 26 6 13 Separate thyself from thy enemies, and take heed of thy friends. +Sirach Sir 26 6 14 A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found him, hath found a treasure. +Sirach Sir 26 6 15 Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity. +Sirach Sir 26 6 16 A faithful friend is the medicine of life and immortality: and they that fear the Lord, shall find him. +Sirach Sir 26 6 17 He that feareth God, shall likewise have good friendship: because according to him shall his friend be. +Sirach Sir 26 6 18 My son, from thy youth up receive instruction, and even to thy grey hairs thou shalt find wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 6 19 Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits: +Sirach Sir 26 6 20 For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits. +Sirach Sir 26 6 21 How very unpleasant is wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise will not continue with her. +Sirach Sir 26 6 22 She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will cast her from them before it be long. +Sirach Sir 26 6 23 For the wisdom of doctrine is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many, but with them to whom she is known, she continueth even to the sight of God. +Sirach Sir 26 6 24 Give ear, my son, and take wise counsel, and cast not away my advice. +Sirach Sir 26 6 25 Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chains: +Sirach Sir 26 6 26 Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her bands. +Sirach Sir 26 6 27 Come to her with all thy mind, and keep her ways with all thy power. +Sirach Sir 26 6 28 Search for her, and she shall be made known to thee, and when thou hast gotten her, let her not go: +Sirach Sir 26 6 29 For in the latter end thou shalt find rest in her, and she shall be turned to thy joy. +Sirach Sir 26 6 30 Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm foundation, and her chain a robe of glory: +Sirach Sir 26 6 31 For in her is the beauty of life, and her bands are a healthful binding. +Sirach Sir 26 6 32 Thou shalt put her on as a robe of glory, and thou shalt set her upon thee as a crown of joy. +Sirach Sir 26 6 33 My son, if thou wilt attend to me, thou shalt learn: and if thou wilt apply thy mind, thou shalt be wise. +Sirach Sir 26 6 34 If thou wilt incline thy ear, thou shalt receive instruction: and if thou love to hear, thou shalt be wise. +Sirach Sir 26 6 35 Stand in the multitude of ancients that are wise, and join thyself from thy heart to their wisdom, that thou mayst hear every discourse of God, and the sayings of praise may not escape thee. +Sirach Sir 26 6 36 And if thou see a man of understanding, go to him early in the morning, and let thy foot wear the steps of his doors. +Sirach Sir 26 6 37 Let thy thoughts be upon the precepts of God, and meditate continually on his commandments: and he will give thee a heart, and the desire of wisdom shall be given to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 7 1 Do no evils, and no evils shall lay hold of thee. +Sirach Sir 26 7 2 Depart from the unjust, and evils shall depart from thee. +Sirach Sir 26 7 3 My son, sow not evils in the furrows of injustice, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold. +Sirach Sir 26 7 4 Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of honour. +Sirach Sir 26 7 5 Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king. +Sirach Sir 26 7 6 Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity. +Sirach Sir 26 7 7 Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people, +Sirach Sir 26 7 8 Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished. +Sirach Sir 26 7 9 Be not fainthearted in thy mind: +Sirach Sir 26 7 10 Neglect not to pray, and to give alms. +Sirach Sir 26 7 11 Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings. +Sirach Sir 26 7 12 Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all. +Sirach Sir 26 7 13 Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend. +Sirach Sir 26 7 14 Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good. +Sirach Sir 26 7 15 Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer. +Sirach Sir 26 7 16 Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High. +Sirach Sir 26 7 17 Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly. +Sirach Sir 26 7 18 Remember wrath, for it will not tarry long. +Sirach Sir 26 7 19 Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of the ungodly is fire and worms. +Sirach Sir 26 7 20 Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the sake of gold. +Sirach Sir 26 7 21 Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold. +Sirach Sir 26 7 22 Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life. +Sirach Sir 26 7 23 Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him not of liberty, nor leave him needy. +Sirach Sir 26 7 24 Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee. +Sirach Sir 26 7 25 Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their childhood. +Sirach Sir 26 7 26 Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thy countenance gay towards them. +Sirach Sir 26 7 27 Marry thy daughter well, and thou shalt do a great work, and give her to a wise man. +Sirach Sir 26 7 28 If thou hast a wife according to thy soul, cast her not off: and to her that is hateful, trust not thyself. With thy whole heart, +Sirach Sir 26 7 29 Honour thy father, and forget not the groanings of thy mother: +Sirach Sir 26 7 30 Remember that thou hadst not been born but through them: and make a return to them as they have done for thee. +Sirach Sir 26 7 31 With all thy soul fear the Lord, and reverence his priests. +Sirach Sir 26 7 32 With all thy strength love him that made thee: and forsake not his ministers. +Sirach Sir 26 7 33 Honour God with all thy soul and give honour to the priests, and purify thyself with thy arms. +Sirach Sir 26 7 34 Give them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the firstfruits and of purifications: and for thy negligences purify thyself with a few. +Sirach Sir 26 7 35 Offer to the Lord the gift of thy shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things: +Sirach Sir 26 7 36 And stretch out thy hand to the poor, that thy expiation and thy blessing may be perfected. +Sirach Sir 26 7 37 A gift hath grace in the sight of all the living, and restrain not grace from the dead. +Sirach Sir 26 7 38 Be not wanting in comforting them that weep, and walk with them that mourn. +Sirach Sir 26 7 39 Be not slow to visit the sick: for by these things thou shalt be confirmed in love. +Sirach Sir 26 7 40 In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin. +Sirach Sir 26 8 1 Strive not with a powerful man, lest thou fall into his hands. +Sirach Sir 26 8 2 Contend not with a rich man, lest he bring an action against thee. +Sirach Sir 26 8 3 For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to the heart of kings, and perverted them. +Sirach Sir 26 8 4 Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire. +Sirach Sir 26 8 5 Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest he speak ill of thy family. +Sirach Sir 26 8 6 Despise not a man that turneth away from sin, nor reproach him therewith: remember that we are all worthy of reproof. +Sirach Sir 26 8 7 Despise not a man in his old age; for we also shall become old. +Sirach Sir 26 8 8 Rejoice not at the death of thy enemy; knowing that we all die, and are not willing that others should rejoice at our death. +Sirach Sir 26 8 9 Despise not the discourse of them that are ancient and wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs. +Sirach Sir 26 8 10 For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and instruction of understanding, and to serve great men without blame. +Sirach Sir 26 8 11 Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: +Sirach Sir 26 8 12 For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need. +Sirach Sir 26 8 13 Kindle not the coals of sinners by rebuking them, lest thou be burnt with the flame of the fire of their sins. +Sirach Sir 26 8 14 Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy words. +Sirach Sir 26 8 15 Lend not to a man that is mightier than thyself: and if thou lendest, count it as lost. +Sirach Sir 26 8 16 Be not surety above thy power: and if thou be surety, think as if thou wert to pay it. +Sirach Sir 26 8 17 Judge not against a judge: for he judgeth according to that which is just. +Sirach Sir 26 8 18 Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his evils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish together with his folly. +Sirach Sir 26 8 19 Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert with a bold man: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help he will overthrow thee. +Sirach Sir 26 8 20 Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as please them. +Sirach Sir 26 8 21 Before a stranger do no matter of counsel: for thou knowest not what he will bring forth. +Sirach Sir 26 8 22 Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproachfully to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 9 1 Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked lesson. +Sirach Sir 26 9 2 Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be confounded. +Sirach Sir 26 9 3 Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares. +Sirach Sir 26 9 4 Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms. +Sirach Sir 26 9 5 Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 9 6 Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance. +Sirach Sir 26 9 7 Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in the streets thereof. +Sirach Sir 26 9 8 Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty. +Sirach Sir 26 9 9 For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a fire. +Sirach Sir 26 9 10 Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in the way. +Sirach Sir 26 9 11 Many by admiring the beauty of another man's wife, have become reprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire. +Sirach Sir 26 9 12 Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor repose upon the bed with her: +Sirach Sir 26 9 13 And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction. +Sirach Sir 26 9 14 Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him. +Sirach Sir 26 9 15 A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure. +Sirach Sir 26 9 16 Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be. +Sirach Sir 26 9 17 Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked shall not please. +Sirach Sir 26 9 18 Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill, so thou shalt not suspect the fear of death. +Sirach Sir 26 9 19 And if thou come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away thy life. +Sirach Sir 26 9 20 Know it to be a communication with death: for thou art going in the midst of snares, and walking upon the arms of them that are grieved. +Sirach Sir 26 9 21 According to thy power beware of thy neighbour, and treat with the wise and prudent. +Sirach Sir 26 9 22 Let just men be thy guests, and let thy glory be in the fear of God. +Sirach Sir 26 9 23 And let the thought of God be in thy mind, and all thy discourse on the commandments of the Highest. +Sirach Sir 26 9 24 Works shall be praised for the hand of the artificers, and the prince of the people for the wisdom of his speech, but the word of the ancients for the sense. +Sirach Sir 26 9 25 A man full of tongue is terrible in his city, and he that is rash in his word shall be hateful. +Sirach Sir 26 10 1 A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady. +Sirach Sir 26 10 2 As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein. +Sirach Sir 26 10 3 An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers. +Sirach Sir 26 10 4 The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it. +Sirach Sir 26 10 5 The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour. +Sirach Sir 26 10 6 Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury. +Sirach Sir 26 10 7 Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable. +Sirach Sir 26 10 8 A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. +Sirach Sir 26 10 9 But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud? +Sirach Sir 26 10 10 There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels. +Sirach Sir 26 10 11 All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. +Sirach Sir 26 10 12 The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die. +Sirach Sir 26 10 13 For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. +Sirach Sir 26 10 14 The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: +Sirach Sir 26 10 15 Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. +Sirach Sir 26 10 16 Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them. +Sirach Sir 26 10 17 God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead. +Sirach Sir 26 10 18 God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations. +Sirach Sir 26 10 19 The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation. +Sirach Sir 26 10 20 He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 10 21 God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind. +Sirach Sir 26 10 22 Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women. +Sirach Sir 26 10 23 That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 10 24 In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes. +Sirach Sir 26 10 25 The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor. +Sirach Sir 26 10 26 Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich. +Sirach Sir 26 10 27 The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God. +Sirach Sir 26 10 28 They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured. +Sirach Sir 26 10 29 Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress; +Sirach Sir 26 10 30 Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread. +Sirach Sir 26 10 31 My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert. +Sirach Sir 26 10 32 Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul? +Sirach Sir 26 10 33 The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth. +Sirach Sir 26 10 34 But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty. +Sirach Sir 26 11 1 The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him sit in the midst of great men. +Sirach Sir 26 11 2 Praise not a man for his beauty, neither despise a man for his look. +Sirach Sir 26 11 3 The bee is small among flying things but her fruit hath the chiefest sweetness. +Sirach Sir 26 11 4 Glory not in apparel at any time, and be not exalted in the day of thy honour: for the works of the Highest only are wonderful, and his works are glorious, and secret, and hidden. +Sirach Sir 26 11 5 Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would think on, hath worn the crown. +Sirach Sir 26 11 6 Many mighty men have been greatly brought down, and the glorious have been delivered into the hand of others. +Sirach Sir 26 11 7 Before thou inquire, blame no man: and when thou hast inquired, reprove justly. +Sirach Sir 26 11 8 Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in the midst of their discourse. +Sirach Sir 26 11 9 Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not in judgment with sinners. +Sirach Sir 26 11 10 My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape. +Sirach Sir 26 11 11 There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want. +Sirach Sir 26 11 12 Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty: +Sirach Sir 26 11 13 Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God. +Sirach Sir 26 11 14 Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God. +Sirach Sir 26 11 15 Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good things are with him. +Sirach Sir 26 11 16 Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil. +Sirach Sir 26 11 17 The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 11 18 There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward. +Sirach Sir 26 11 19 In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone: +Sirach Sir 26 11 20 And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die. +Sirach Sir 26 11 21 Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow old in the work of thy commandments. +Sirach Sir 26 11 22 Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in thy place, +Sirach Sir 26 11 23 For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich. +Sirach Sir 26 11 24 The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beareth fruit. +Sirach Sir 26 11 25 Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this? +Sirach Sir 26 11 26 Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this? +Sirach Sir 26 11 27 In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things: +Sirach Sir 26 11 28 For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways. +Sirach Sir 26 11 29 The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works. +Sirach Sir 26 11 30 Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children. +Sirach Sir 26 11 31 Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful. +Sirach Sir 26 11 32 For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour. +Sirach Sir 26 11 33 For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot. +Sirach Sir 26 11 34 Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood. +Sirach Sir 26 11 35 Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 11 36 Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own. +Sirach Sir 26 12 1 If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds. +Sirach Sir 26 12 2 Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 12 3 For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the penitent. +Sirach Sir 26 12 4 Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day of vengeance. +Sirach Sir 26 12 5 Give to the good, and receive not a sinner. +Sirach Sir 26 12 6 Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not to him, lest thereby he overmaster thee. +Sirach Sir 26 12 7 For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance to the ungodly. +Sirach Sir 26 12 8 A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity. +Sirach Sir 26 12 9 In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity. +Sirach Sir 26 12 10 Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth: +Sirach Sir 26 12 11 Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him. +Sirach Sir 26 12 12 Set him not by thee, neither let him sit on thy right hand, lest he turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings. +Sirach Sir 26 12 13 Who will pity an enchanter struck by a serpent, or any that come near wild beasts? so is it with him that keepeth company with a wicked man, and is involved in his sins. +Sirach Sir 26 12 14 For an hour he will abide with thee: but if thou begin to decline, he will not endure it. +Sirach Sir 26 12 15 An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he lieth in wait, to throw thee into a pit. +Sirach Sir 26 12 16 An enemy weepeth with his eyes: but if he find an opportunity he will not be satisfied with blood: +Sirach Sir 26 12 17 And if evils come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first. +Sirach Sir 26 12 18 An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy feet. +Sirach Sir 26 12 19 He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance. +Sirach Sir 26 13 1 He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled with it: and he that hath fellowship with the proud, shall put on pride. +Sirach Sir 26 13 2 He shall take a burden upon him that hath fellowship with one more honourable than himself. And have no fellowship with one that is richer than thyself. +Sirach Sir 26 13 3 What agreement shall the earthen pot have with the kettle? for if they knock one against the other, it shall be broken. +Sirach Sir 26 13 4 The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor is wronged and must hold his peace. +Sirach Sir 26 13 5 If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee. +Sirach Sir 26 13 6 If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make thee bare, and he will not be sorry for thee. +Sirach Sir 26 13 7 If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantest thou? +Sirach Sir 26 13 8 And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee. +Sirach Sir 26 13 9 Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands. +Sirach Sir 26 13 10 Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled. +Sirach Sir 26 13 11 Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly. +Sirach Sir 26 13 12 If thou be invited by one that is mightier, withdraw thyself: for so he will invite thee the more. +Sirach Sir 26 13 13 Be not troublesome to him, lest thou be put back: and keep not far from him, lest thou be forgotten. +Sirach Sir 26 13 14 Affect not to speak with him as an equal, and believe not his many words: for by much talk he will sift thee, and smiling will examine thee concerning thy secrets. +Sirach Sir 26 13 15 His cruel mind will lay up thy words: and he will not spare to do thee hurt, and to cast thee into prison. +Sirach Sir 26 13 16 Take heed to thyself, and attend diligently to what thou hearest: for thou walkest in danger of thy ruin. +Sirach Sir 26 13 17 When thou hearest those things, see as it were in sleep, and thou shalt awake. +Sirach Sir 26 13 18 Love God all thy life, and call upon him for thy salvation. +Sirach Sir 26 13 19 Every beast loveth its like: so also every man him that is nearest to himself. +Sirach Sir 26 13 20 All flesh shall consort with the like to itself, and every man shall associate himself to his like. +Sirach Sir 26 13 21 If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship with the lamb, so the sinner with the just. +Sirach Sir 26 13 22 What fellowship hath a holy man with a dog, or what part hath the rich with the poor? +Sirach Sir 26 13 23 The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich. +Sirach Sir 26 13 24 And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich man abhorreth the poor. +Sirach Sir 26 13 25 When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by his friends: but when a poor man is fallen down, he is thrust away even by his acquaintance. +Sirach Sir 26 13 26 When a rich man hath been deceived, he hath many helpers: he hath spoken proud things, and they have justified him. +Sirach Sir 26 13 27 The poor man was deceived, and he is rebuked also: he hath spoken wisely, and could have no place. +Sirach Sir 26 13 28 The rich man spoke, and all held their peace, and what he said they extol even to the clouds. +Sirach Sir 26 13 29 The poor man spoke, and they say: Who is this? and if he stumble, they will overthrow him. +Sirach Sir 26 13 30 Riches are good to him that hath no sin in his conscience: and poverty is very wicked in the mouth of the ungodly. +Sirach Sir 26 13 31 The heart of a man changeth his countenance, either for good, or for evil. +Sirach Sir 26 13 32 The token of a good heart, and a good countenance thou shalt hardly find, and with labour. +Sirach Sir 26 14 1 Blessed is the man that hath not slipped by a word out of his mouth, and is not pricked with the remorse of sin. +Sirach Sir 26 14 2 Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his mind, and who is not fallen from his hope. +Sirach Sir 26 14 3 Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold? +Sirach Sir 26 14 4 He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting. +Sirach Sir 26 14 5 He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his goods. +Sirach Sir 26 14 6 There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness: +Sirach Sir 26 14 7 And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly, and unwillingly: and at the last he discovereth his wickedness. +Sirach Sir 26 14 8 The eye of the envious is wicked: and he turneth away his face, and despiseth his own soul. +Sirach Sir 26 14 9 The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying it up. +Sirach Sir 26 14 10 An evil eye is towards evil things: and he shall not have his fill of bread, but shall be needy and pensive at his own table. +Sirach Sir 26 14 11 My son, if thou have any thing, do good to thyself, and offer to God worthy offerings. +Sirach Sir 26 14 12 Remember that death is not slow, and that the covenant of hell hath been shewn to thee: for the covenant of this world shall surely die. +Sirach Sir 26 14 13 Do good to thy friend before thou die, and according to thy ability, stretching out thy hand give to the poor. +Sirach Sir 26 14 14 Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good gift overpass thee. +Sirach Sir 26 14 15 Shalt thou not leave to others to divide by lot thy sorrows and labours? +Sirach Sir 26 14 16 Give and take, and justify thy soul. +Sirach Sir 26 14 17 Before thy death work justice: for in hell there is no finding food. +Sirach Sir 26 14 18 All flesh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf that springeth out on a green tree. +Sirach Sir 26 14 19 Some grow, and some fall off: so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born. +Sirach Sir 26 14 20 Every work that is corruptible shall fail in the end: and the worker thereof shall go with it. +Sirach Sir 26 14 21 And every excellent work shall be justified: and the worker thereof shall be honoured therein. +Sirach Sir 26 14 22 Blessed is the man that shall continue in wisdom, and that shall meditate in his justice, and in his mind shall think of the all seeing eye of God. +Sirach Sir 26 14 23 He that considereth her ways in his heart, and hath understanding in her secrets, who goeth after her as one that traceth, and stayeth in her ways. +Sirach Sir 26 14 24 He who looketh in at her windows, and hearkeneth at her door. +Sirach Sir 26 14 25 He that lodgeth near her house, and fastening a pin in her walls shall set up his tent high unto her, where good things shall rest in his lodging for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 14 26 He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge under her branches: +Sirach Sir 26 14 27 He shall be protected under her covering from the heat, and shall rest in her glory. +Sirach Sir 26 15 1 He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth justice, shall lay hold on her, +Sirach Sir 26 15 2 And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a virgin. +Sirach Sir 26 15 3 With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved. +Sirach Sir 26 15 4 And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and she shall exalt him among his neighbours. +Sirach Sir 26 15 5 And in the midst of the church she shall open his mouth, and shall fill him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and shall clothe him with a robe of glory. +Sirach Sir 26 15 6 She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy and gladness, and shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name. +Sirach Sir 26 15 7 But foolish men shall not obtain her, and wise men shall meet her, foolish men shall not see her: for she is far from pride and deceit. +Sirach Sir 26 15 8 Lying men shall be mindful of her: but men that speak truth shall be found with her, and shall advance, even till they come to the sight of God. +Sirach Sir 26 15 9 Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner: +Sirach Sir 26 15 10 For wisdom came forth from God: for praise shall be with the wisdom of God, and shall abound in a faithful mouth, and the sovereign Lord will give praise unto it. +Sirach Sir 26 15 11 Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not thou the things that he hateth. +Sirach Sir 26 15 12 Say not: He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of wicked men. +Sirach Sir 26 15 13 The Lord hateth all abomination of error, and they that fear him shall not love it. +Sirach Sir 26 15 14 God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel. +Sirach Sir 26 15 15 He added his commandments and precepts. +Sirach Sir 26 15 16 If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable fidelity for ever, they shall preserve thee. +Sirach Sir 26 15 17 He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt. +Sirach Sir 26 15 18 Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall choose shall be given him: +Sirach Sir 26 15 19 For the wisdom of God is great, and he is strong in power, seeing all men without ceasing. +Sirach Sir 26 15 20 The eyes of the Lord are towards them that fear him, and he knoweth al the work of man. +Sirach Sir 26 15 21 He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, and he hath given no man license to sin; +Sirach Sir 26 15 22 For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable children. +Sirach Sir 26 16 1 Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them. +Sirach Sir 26 16 2 Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours. +Sirach Sir 26 16 3 For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children. +Sirach Sir 26 16 4 And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children. +Sirach Sir 26 16 5 By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate. +Sirach Sir 26 16 6 Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard. +Sirach Sir 26 16 7 In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall flame out. +Sirach Sir 26 16 8 The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sins, who were destroyed trusting to their own strength: +Sirach Sir 26 16 9 And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word. +Sirach Sir 26 16 10 He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled themselves in their sins. +Sirach Sir 26 16 11 So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished: +Sirach Sir 26 16 12 For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation: +Sirach Sir 26 16 13 According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man according to his works. +Sirach Sir 26 16 14 The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off. +Sirach Sir 26 16 15 All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit of his works, and according to the wisdom of his sojournment. +Sirach Sir 26 16 16 Say not: I shall be hidden from God, and who shall remember me from on high? +Sirach Sir 26 16 17 In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in such an immense creation? +Sirach Sir 26 16 18 Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his sight, +Sirach Sir 26 16 19 The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the earth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling. +Sirach Sir 26 16 20 And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart is understood by him. +Sirach Sir 26 16 21 And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye of man shall see? +Sirach Sir 26 16 22 For many of his works are hidden, but the works of his justice who shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from some, and the examination of all is in the end. +Sirach Sir 26 16 23 He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things. +Sirach Sir 26 16 24 Hearken to me, my son, and learn the discipline of understanding, and attend to my words in thy heart. +Sirach Sir 26 16 25 And I will shew forth good doctrine in equity, and will seek to declare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity of spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put upon his works from the beginning, and I shew forth in truth his knowledge. +Sirach Sir 26 16 26 The works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and from the making of them he distinguished their parts, and their beginnings in their generations. +Sirach Sir 26 16 27 He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works. +Sirach Sir 26 16 28 Nor shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any time. +Sirach Sir 26 16 29 Be not thou incredulous to his word. +Sirach Sir 26 16 30 After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his goods. +Sirach Sir 26 16 31 The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face thereof, and into it they return again. +Sirach Sir 26 17 1 God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image. +Sirach Sir 26 17 2 And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself. +Sirach Sir 26 17 3 He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power over all things that are upon the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 17 4 He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over beasts and fowls. +Sirach Sir 26 17 5 He created of him a helpmate like to himself, he gave them counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart to devise: and he filled them with the knowledge of understanding. +Sirach Sir 26 17 6 He created in them the science of the spirit, he fired their heart with wisdom, and shewed them both good and evil. +Sirach Sir 26 17 7 He set his eye upon their hearts to shew them the greatness of his works: +Sirach Sir 26 17 8 That they might praise the name which he hath sanctified: and glory in his wondrous act that they might declare the glorious things of his works. +Sirach Sir 26 17 9 Moreover he gave them instructions, and the law of life for an inheritance. +Sirach Sir 26 17 10 He made an everlasting covenant with them, and he shewed them his justice and judgments. +Sirach Sir 26 17 11 And their eye saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard his glorious voice, and he said to them: Beware of all iniquity. +Sirach Sir 26 17 12 And he gave to every one of them commandment concerning his neighbour. +Sirach Sir 26 17 13 Their ways are always before him, they are not hidden from his eyes. +Sirach Sir 26 17 14 Over every nation he set a ruler. +Sirach Sir 26 17 15 And Israel was made the manifest portion of God. +Sirach Sir 26 17 16 And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon their ways. +Sirach Sir 26 17 17 Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of God. +Sirach Sir 26 17 18 The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple of the eye: +Sirach Sir 26 17 19 And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their reward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into the bowels of the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 17 20 But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he hath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to them the lot of truth. +Sirach Sir 26 17 21 Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins: +Sirach Sir 26 17 22 Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less. +Sirach Sir 26 17 23 Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and greatly hate abomination. +Sirach Sir 26 17 24 And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the lot set before thee, and in prayer to the most high God. +Sirach Sir 26 17 25 Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give praise to God. +Sirach Sir 26 17 26 Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing. +Sirach Sir 26 17 27 Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies. +Sirach Sir 26 17 28 How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him ! +Sirach Sir 26 17 29 For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil. +Sirach Sir 26 17 30 What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved. +Sirach Sir 26 17 31 He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes. +Sirach Sir 26 18 1 He that liveth for ever created all things together. God only shall be justified, and he remaineth an invincible king for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 18 2 Who is able to declare his works? +Sirach Sir 26 18 3 For who shall search out his glorious acts? +Sirach Sir 26 18 4 And who shall show forth the power of his majesty? or who shall be able to declare his mercy? +Sirach Sir 26 18 5 Nothing may be taken away, nor added, neither is it possible to find out the glorious works of God. +Sirach Sir 26 18 6 When a man hath done, then shall he begin: and when he leaveth off, he shall be at a loss. +Sirach Sir 26 18 7 What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil? +Sirach Sir 26 18 8 The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity. +Sirach Sir 26 18 9 Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them. +Sirach Sir 26 18 10 He hath seen the presumption of their heart that it is wicked, and hath known their end that it is evil. +Sirach Sir 26 18 11 Therefore hath he filled up his mercy in their favour, and hath shewn them the way of justice. +Sirach Sir 26 18 12 The compassion of man is toward his neighbour: but the mercy of God is upon all flesh. +Sirach Sir 26 18 13 He hath mercy, and teacheth, and correcteth, as a shepherd doth his flock. +Sirach Sir 26 18 14 He hath mercy on him that receiveth the discipline of mercy, and that maketh haste in his judgments. +Sirach Sir 26 18 15 My son, in thy good deeds, make no complaint, and when thou givest any thing, add not grief by an evil word. +Sirach Sir 26 18 16 Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so also the good word is better than the gift. +Sirach Sir 26 18 17 Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a justified man. +Sirach Sir 26 18 18 A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a gift of one ill taught consumeth the eyes. +Sirach Sir 26 18 19 Before judgment prepare thee justice, and learn before thou speak. +Sirach Sir 26 18 20 Before sickness take a medicine, and before judgment examine thyself, and thou shalt find mercy in the sight of God. +Sirach Sir 26 18 21 Humble thyself before thou art sick, and in the time of sickness shew thy conversation. +Sirach Sir 26 18 22 Let nothing hinder thee from praying always, and be not afraid to be justified even to death: for the reward of God continueth for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 18 23 Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that tempteth God. +Sirach Sir 26 18 24 Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time of repaying when he shall turn away his face. +Sirach Sir 26 18 25 Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities of poverty in the day of riches. +Sirach Sir 26 18 26 From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed, and all these are swift in the eyes of God. +Sirach Sir 26 18 27 A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the days of sins will beware of sloth. +Sirach Sir 26 18 28 Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise to him that findeth her. +Sirach Sir 26 18 29 They that were of good understanding in words, have also done wisely themselves: and have understood truth and justice, and have poured forth proverbs and judgments. +Sirach Sir 26 18 30 Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will. +Sirach Sir 26 18 31 If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies. +Sirach Sir 26 18 32 Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small: for their concertation is continual. +Sirach Sir 26 18 33 Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own life. +Sirach Sir 26 19 1 A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little. +Sirach Sir 26 19 2 Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent: +Sirach Sir 26 19 3 And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number. +Sirach Sir 26 19 4 He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised. +Sirach Sir 26 19 5 He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling, extinguisheth evil. +Sirach Sir 26 19 6 He that sinneth against his own soul, shall repent: and he that is delighted with wickedness, shall be condemned. +Sirach Sir 26 19 7 Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not fare the worse. +Sirach Sir 26 19 8 Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not. +Sirach Sir 26 19 9 For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always. +Sirach Sir 26 19 10 Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee. +Sirach Sir 26 19 11 At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child. +Sirach Sir 26 19 12 As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool. +Sirach Sir 26 19 13 Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more. +Sirach Sir 26 19 14 Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again. +Sirach Sir 26 19 15 Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed. +Sirach Sir 26 19 16 And believe not every word. There is one, that slippeth with the tongue, but not from his heart. +Sirach Sir 26 19 17 For who is there that hath not offended with his tongue? Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him. +Sirach Sir 26 19 18 And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 19 19 But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence. +Sirach Sir 26 19 20 There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 19 21 Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High. +Sirach Sir 26 19 22 There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust. +Sirach Sir 26 19 23 And there is one that uttereth an exact word telling the truth. There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full of deceit: +Sirach Sir 26 19 24 And there is one that submitteth himself exceedingly with a great lowliness: and there is one that casteth down his countenance, and maketh as if he did not see that which is unknown: +Sirach Sir 26 19 25 And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he shall find opportunity to do evil, he will do it. +Sirach Sir 26 19 26 A man is known by his look, and a wise man, when thou meetest him, is known by his countenance. +Sirach Sir 26 19 27 The attire of the body, and the laughter of the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what he is. +Sirach Sir 26 19 28 There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and there is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one that holdeth his peace, he is wise. +Sirach Sir 26 20 1 How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer. +Sirach Sir 26 20 2 The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden: +Sirach Sir 26 20 3 So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise. +Sirach Sir 26 20 4 How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for so thou shalt escape wilful sin. +Sirach Sir 26 20 5 There is one that holdeth his peace, that is found wise: and there is another that is hateful, that is bold in speech. +Sirach Sir 26 20 6 There is one that holdeth his peace, because he knoweth not what to say: and there is another that holdeth his peace, knowing the proper time. +Sirach Sir 26 20 7 A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a babbler, and a fool, will regard no time. +Sirach Sir 26 20 8 He that useth many words shall hurt his own soul: and he that taketh authority to himself unjustly shall be hated. +Sirach Sir 26 20 9 There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and there is a finding that turneth to loss. +Sirach Sir 26 20 10 There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the recompense of which is double. +Sirach Sir 26 20 11 There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate. +Sirach Sir 26 20 12 There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the same sevenfold. +Sirach Sir 26 20 13 A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out. +Sirach Sir 26 20 14 The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are sevenfold. +Sirach Sir 26 20 15 He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of his mouth is the kindling of a fire. +Sirach Sir 26 20 16 To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he asketh it again: such a man as this is hateful. +Sirach Sir 26 20 17 A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for his good deeds. +Sirach Sir 26 20 18 For they that eat his bread, are of a false tongue. How often, and how many will laugh him to scorn! +Sirach Sir 26 20 19 For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had. +Sirach Sir 26 20 20 The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily. +Sirach Sir 26 20 21 A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise. +Sirach Sir 26 20 22 A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season. +Sirach Sir 26 20 23 There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked. +Sirach Sir 26 20 24 There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect of person he will destroy himself. +Sirach Sir 26 20 25 There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing. +Sirach Sir 26 20 26 A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in the mouth of men without discipline. +Sirach Sir 26 20 27 A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction. +Sirach Sir 26 20 28 The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion is with them without ceasing. +Sirach Sir 26 20 29 A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent man shall please the great ones. +Sirach Sir 26 20 30 He that tilleth his land shall make a high heap of corn: and he that worketh justice shall be exalted: and he that pleaseth great men shall escape iniquity. +Sirach Sir 26 20 31 Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb in the mouth, so that they cannot correct. +Sirach Sir 26 20 32 O Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is not seen: what profit is there in them both? +Sirach Sir 26 20 33 Better is he that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 21 1 My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more: but for thy former sins also pray that they may be forgiven thee. +Sirach Sir 26 21 2 Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest near them, they will take hold of thee. +Sirach Sir 26 21 3 The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of men. +Sirach Sir 26 21 4 All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof. +Sirach Sir 26 21 5 Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very rich shall be brought to nothing by pride: so the substance of the proud shall be rooted out. +Sirach Sir 26 21 6 The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come for him speedily. +Sirach Sir 26 21 7 He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart. +Sirach Sir 26 21 8 He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him. +Sirach Sir 26 21 9 He that buildeth his house at other men's charges, is as he that gathereth himself stones to build in the winter. +Sirach Sir 26 21 10 The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of fire. +Sirach Sir 26 21 11 The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness, and pains. +Sirach Sir 26 21 12 He that keepeth justice shall get the understanding thereof. +Sirach Sir 26 21 13 The perfection of the fear of God is wisdom and understanding. +Sirach Sir 26 21 14 He that is not wise in good, will not be taught. +Sirach Sir 26 21 15 But there is a wisdom that aboundeth in evil: and there is no understanding where there is bitterness. +Sirach Sir 26 21 16 The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood, and his counsel continueth like a fountain of life. +Sirach Sir 26 21 17 The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, and no wisdom at all shall it hold. +Sirach Sir 26 21 18 A man of sense will praise every wise word he shall hear, and will apply it to himself: the luxurious man hath heard it, and it shall displease him, and he will cast it behind his back. +Sirach Sir 26 21 19 The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but in the lips of the wise, grace shall be found. +Sirach Sir 26 21 20 The mouth of the prudent is sought after in the church, and they will think upon his words in their hearts. +Sirach Sir 26 21 21 As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as words without sense. +Sirach Sir 26 21 22 Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. +Sirach Sir 26 21 23 A fool lifteth up his voice in laughter: but a wise man will scarce laugh low to himself. +Sirach Sir 26 21 24 Learning to the prudent is as an ornament of gold, and like a bracelet upon his right arm. +Sirach Sir 26 21 25 The foot of a fool is soon in his neighbour's house: but a man of experience will be abashed at the person of the mighty. +Sirach Sir 26 21 26 A fool will peep through the window into the house: but he that is well taught will stand without. +Sirach Sir 26 21 27 It is the folly of a man to hearken at the door: and a wise man will be grieved with the disgrace. +Sirach Sir 26 21 28 The lips of the unwise will be telling foolish things: but the words of the wise shall be weighed in a balance. +Sirach Sir 26 21 29 The heart of fools is in their mouth: and the mouth of wise men is in their heart. +Sirach Sir 26 21 30 While the ungodly curseth the devil, he curseth his own soul. +Sirach Sir 26 21 31 The talebearer shall defile his own soul, and shall be hated by all: and he that shall abide with him shall be hateful: the silent and wise man shall be honoured. +Sirach Sir 26 22 1 The sluggard is pelted with a dirty stone, and all men will speak of his disgrace. +Sirach Sir 26 22 2 The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen: and every one that toucheth him will shake his hands. +Sirach Sir 26 22 3 A son ill taught is the confusion of the father: and a foolish daughter shall be to his loss. +Sirach Sir 26 22 4 A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that confoundeth, becometh a disgrace to her father. +Sirach Sir 26 22 5 She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both. +Sirach Sir 26 22 6 A tale out of time is like music in mourning: but the stripes and instruction of wisdom are never out of time. +Sirach Sir 26 22 7 He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd together. +Sirach Sir 26 22 8 He that telleth a word to him that heareth not, is like one that waketh a man out of a deep sleep. +Sirach Sir 26 22 9 He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this? +Sirach Sir 26 22 10 Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth. +Sirach Sir 26 22 11 Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest. +Sirach Sir 26 22 12 For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death. +Sirach Sir 26 22 13 The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life. +Sirach Sir 26 22 14 Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no sense. +Sirach Sir 26 22 15 Keep thyself from him, that thou mayst not have trouble, and thou shalt not be defiled with his sin. +Sirach Sir 26 22 16 Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be wearied out with his folly. +Sirach Sir 26 22 17 What is heavier than lead? and what other name hath he but fool? +Sirach Sir 26 22 18 Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear, than a man without sense, that is both foolish and wicked. +Sirach Sir 26 22 19 A frame of wood bound together in the foundation of a building, shall not be loosed: so neither shall the heart that is established by advised counsel. +Sirach Sir 26 22 20 The thought of him that is wise at all times, shall not be depraved by fear. +Sirach Sir 26 22 21 As pales set in high places, and plasterings made without cost, will not stand against the face of the wind: +Sirach Sir 26 22 22 So also a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool shall not resist against the violence of fear. +Sirach Sir 26 22 23 As a fearful heart in the thought of a fool at all times will not fear, so neither shall he that continueth always in the commandments of God. +Sirach Sir 26 22 24 He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment. +Sirach Sir 26 22 25 He that flingeth a stone at birds, shall drive them away: so he that upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship. +Sirach Sir 26 22 26 Although thou hast drawn a sword at a friend, despair not: for there may be a returning. To a friend, +Sirach Sir 26 22 27 If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear not, for there may be a reconciliation: except upbraiding, and reproach, and pride, and disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for in all these cases a friend will flee away. +Sirach Sir 26 22 28 Keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice. +Sirach Sir 26 22 29 In the time of his trouble continue faithful to him, that thou mayst also be heir with him in his inheritance. +Sirach Sir 26 22 30 As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke of the fire goeth up before the fire: so also injurious words, and reproaches, and threats, before blood. +Sirach Sir 26 22 31 I will not be ashamed to salute a friend, neither will I hide myself from his face: and if any evil happen to me by him, I will bear it. +Sirach Sir 26 22 32 But every one that shall hear it, will beware of him. +Sirach Sir 26 22 33 Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my lips, that I fall not by them, and that my tongue destroy me not? +Sirach Sir 26 23 1 O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them. +Sirach Sir 26 23 2 Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: +Sirach Sir 26 23 3 Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me? +Sirach Sir 26 23 4 O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices. +Sirach Sir 26 23 5 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting. +Sirach Sir 26 23 6 Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind. +Sirach Sir 26 23 7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works. +Sirach Sir 26 23 8 A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby. +Sirach Sir 26 23 9 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls. +Sirach Sir 26 23 10 And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them. +Sirach Sir 26 23 11 For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a blue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure from sin. +Sirach Sir 26 23 12 A man that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a scourge shall not depart from his house. +Sirach Sir 26 23 13 And if he make it void, his sin shall be upon him, and if he dissemble it, he offendeth double: +Sirach Sir 26 23 14 And if he swear in vain, he shall not be justified: for his house shall be filled with his punishment. +Sirach Sir 26 23 15 There is also another speech opposite to death, let it not be found in the inheritance of Jacob. +Sirach Sir 26 23 16 For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and they shall not wallow in sins. +Sirach Sir 26 23 17 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin. +Sirach Sir 26 23 18 Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men: +Sirach Sir 26 23 19 Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity. +Sirach Sir 26 23 20 The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected all the days of his life. +Sirach Sir 26 23 21 Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction. +Sirach Sir 26 23 22 A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it devour some thing. +Sirach Sir 26 23 23 And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not leave off till he hath kindled a fire. +Sirach Sir 26 23 24 To a man that is a fornicator all bread is sweet, he will not be weary of sinning unto the end. +Sirach Sir 26 23 25 Every man that passeth beyond his own bed, despising his own soul, and saying: Who seeth me? +Sirach Sir 26 23 26 Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me, and no man seeth me: whom do I fear? the most High will not remember my sins. +Sirach Sir 26 23 27 And he understandeth not that his eye seeth all things, for such a man's fear driveth him from the fear of God, and the eyes of men fearing him: +Sirach Sir 26 23 28 And he knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are far brighter than the sun, beholding round about all the ways of men, and the bottom of the deep, and looking into the hearts of men, into the most hidden parts. +Sirach Sir 26 23 29 For all things were known to the Lord God, before they were created: so also after they were perfected he beholdeth all things. +Sirach Sir 26 23 30 This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and he shall be chased as a colt: and where he suspected not, he shall be taken. +Sirach Sir 26 23 31 And he shall be in disgrace with all men, because he understood not the fear of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 23 32 So every woman also that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another: +Sirach Sir 26 23 33 For first she hath been unfaithful to the law of the most High: and secondly, she hath offended against her husband: thirdly, she hath fornicated in adultery, and hath gotten her children of another man. +Sirach Sir 26 23 34 This woman shall be brought into the assembly, and inquisition shall be made of her children. +Sirach Sir 26 23 35 Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit. +Sirach Sir 26 23 36 She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her infamy shall not be blotted out. +Sirach Sir 26 23 37 And they that remain shall know, that there is nothing better than the fear of God: and that there is nothing sweeter than to have regard to the commandments of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 23 38 It is great glory to follow the Lord: for length of days shall be received from him. +Sirach Sir 26 24 1 Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people, +Sirach Sir 26 24 2 And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power, +Sirach Sir 26 24 3 And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly. +Sirach Sir 26 24 4 And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying: +Sirach Sir 26 24 5 I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures: +Sirach Sir 26 24 6 I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth: +Sirach Sir 26 24 7 I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud. +Sirach Sir 26 24 8 I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated into the bottom of the deep, and have walked in the waves of the sea, +Sirach Sir 26 24 9 And have stood in all the earth: and in every people, +Sirach Sir 26 24 10 And in every nation I have had the chief rule: +Sirach Sir 26 24 11 And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 24 12 Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle, +Sirach Sir 26 24 13 And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. +Sirach Sir 26 24 14 From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. +Sirach Sir 26 24 15 And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. +Sirach Sir 26 24 16 And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. +Sirach Sir 26 24 17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. +Sirach Sir 26 24 18 I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: +Sirach Sir 26 24 19 As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. +Sirach Sir 26 24 20 I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: +Sirach Sir 26 24 21 And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. +Sirach Sir 26 24 22 I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace. +Sirach Sir 26 24 23 As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. +Sirach Sir 26 24 24 I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. +Sirach Sir 26 24 25 In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. +Sirach Sir 26 24 26 Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits. +Sirach Sir 26 24 27 For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb. +Sirach Sir 26 24 28 My memory is unto everlasting generations. +Sirach Sir 26 24 29 They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst. +Sirach Sir 26 24 30 He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin. +Sirach Sir 26 24 31 They that explain me shall have life everlasting. +Sirach Sir 26 24 32 All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth. +Sirach Sir 26 24 33 Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel. +Sirach Sir 26 24 34 He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 24 35 Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits. +Sirach Sir 26 24 36 Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who multiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest. +Sirach Sir 26 24 37 Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage. +Sirach Sir 26 24 38 Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not search her out. +Sirach Sir 26 24 39 For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean. +Sirach Sir 26 24 40 I, wisdom, have poured out rivers. +Sirach Sir 26 24 41 I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a channel of a river, and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise. +Sirach Sir 26 24 42 I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow. +Sirach Sir 26 24 43 And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near to a sea: +Sirach Sir 26 24 44 For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off. +Sirach Sir 26 24 45 I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will behold all that sleep, and will enlighten all that hope in the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 24 46 I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring even to the holy age. +Sirach Sir 26 24 47 See ye that I have not laboured myself only, but for all that seek out the truth. +Sirach Sir 26 25 1 With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before God and men: +Sirach Sir 26 25 2 The concord of brethren, and the love of neighbours, and man and wife that agree well together. +Sirach Sir 26 25 3 Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly grieved at their life: +Sirach Sir 26 25 4 A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting. +Sirach Sir 26 25 5 The things that thou hast not gathered in thy youth, how shalt thou find them in thy old age? +Sirach Sir 26 25 6 O how comely is judgment for a grey head, and for ancients to know counsel! +Sirach Sir 26 25 7 O how comely is wisdom for the aged, and understanding and counsel to men of honour! +Sirach Sir 26 25 8 Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory. +Sirach Sir 26 25 9 Nine things that are not to be imagined by the heart have I magnified, and the tenth I will utter to men with my tongue. +Sirach Sir 26 25 10 A man that hath joy of his children: and he that liveth and seeth the fall of his enemies. +Sirach Sir 26 25 11 Blessed is he that dwelleth with a wise woman, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served such as are unworthy of him. +Sirach Sir 26 25 12 Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth justice to an ear that heareth. +Sirach Sir 26 25 13 How great is he that findeth wisdom and knowledge! but there is none above him that feareth the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 25 14 The fear of God hath set itself above all things: +Sirach Sir 26 25 15 Blessed is the man, to whom it is given to have the fear of God: he that holdeth it, to whom shall he be likened? +Sirach Sir 26 25 16 The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning of faith is to be fast joined unto it. +Sirach Sir 26 25 17 The sadness of the heart is every plague: and the wickedness of a woman is all evil. +Sirach Sir 26 25 18 And a man will choose any plague, but the plague of the heart: +Sirach Sir 26 25 19 And any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman: +Sirach Sir 26 25 20 And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate him: +Sirach Sir 26 25 21 And any revenge, but the revenge of enemies. +Sirach Sir 26 25 22 There is no head worse than the head of a serpent: +Sirach Sir 26 25 23 And there is no anger above the anger of a woman. It will be more agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a wicked woman. +Sirach Sir 26 25 24 The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst of her neighbours, +Sirach Sir 26 25 25 Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little. +Sirach Sir 26 25 26 All malice is short to the malice of a woman, let the lot of sinners fall upon her. +Sirach Sir 26 25 27 As the climbing of a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of tongue to a quiet man. +Sirach Sir 26 25 28 Look not upon a woman's beauty, and desire not a woman for beauty. +Sirach Sir 26 25 29 A woman's anger, and impudence, and confusion is great. +Sirach Sir 26 25 30 A woman, if she have superiority, is contrary to her husband. +Sirach Sir 26 25 31 A wicked woman abateth the courage, and maketh a heavy countenance, and a wounded heart. +Sirach Sir 26 25 32 Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a woman that doth not make her husband happy. +Sirach Sir 26 25 33 From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die. +Sirach Sir 26 25 34 Give no issue to thy water, no, not a little: nor to a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad. +Sirach Sir 26 25 35 If she walk not at thy hand, she will confound thee in the sight of thy enemies. +Sirach Sir 26 25 36 Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she always abuse thee. +Sirach Sir 26 26 1 Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the number of his years is double. +Sirach Sir 26 26 2 A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and shall fulfil the years of his life in peace. +Sirach Sir 26 26 3 A good wife is a good portion, she shall be given in the portion of them that fear God, to a man for his good deeds. +Sirach Sir 26 26 4 Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his countenance shall be cheerful at all times. +Sirach Sir 26 26 5 Of three things my heart hath been afraid, and at the fourth my face hath trembled: +Sirach Sir 26 26 6 The accusation of a city, and the gathering together of the people: +Sirach Sir 26 26 7 And a false calumny, all are more grievous than death. +Sirach Sir 26 26 8 A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart. +Sirach Sir 26 26 9 With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all. +Sirach Sir 26 26 10 As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion. +Sirach Sir 26 26 11 A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid. +Sirach Sir 26 26 12 The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids. +Sirach Sir 26 26 13 On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself. +Sirach Sir 26 26 14 Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee. +Sirach Sir 26 26 15 She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail. +Sirach Sir 26 26 16 The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones. +Sirach Sir 26 26 17 Her discipline is the gift of God. +Sirach Sir 26 26 18 Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul. +Sirach Sir 26 26 19 A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace. +Sirach Sir 26 26 20 And no price is worthy of a continent soul. +Sirach Sir 26 26 21 As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of God, so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house. +Sirach Sir 26 26 22 As the lamp shining upon the holy candlestick, so is the beauty of the face in a ripe age, +Sirach Sir 26 26 23 As golden pillars upon bases of silver, so are the firm feet upon the soles of a steady woman. +Sirach Sir 26 26 24 As everlasting foundations upon a solid rock, so the commandments of God in the heart of a holy woman. +Sirach Sir 26 26 25 At two things my heart is grieved, and the third bringeth anger upon me. +Sirach Sir 26 26 26 A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense despised: +Sirach Sir 26 26 27 And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword. +Sirach Sir 26 26 28 Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips. +Sirach Sir 26 27 1 Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye. +Sirach Sir 26 27 2 As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast. +Sirach Sir 26 27 3 Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner. +Sirach Sir 26 27 4 Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown. +Sirach Sir 26 27 5 As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts. +Sirach Sir 26 27 6 The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men. +Sirach Sir 26 27 7 As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man. +Sirach Sir 26 27 8 Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men. +Sirach Sir 26 27 9 If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt find a strong foundation. +Sirach Sir 26 27 10 Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that practise her. +Sirach Sir 26 27 11 The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that work iniquities. +Sirach Sir 26 27 12 A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon. +Sirach Sir 26 27 13 In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be continually among men that think. +Sirach Sir 26 27 14 The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin. +Sirach Sir 26 27 15 The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears. +Sirach Sir 26 27 16 In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing. +Sirach Sir 26 27 17 He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind. +Sirach Sir 26 27 18 Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity. +Sirach Sir 26 27 19 But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him. +Sirach Sir 26 27 20 For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour. +Sirach Sir 26 27 21 And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again. +Sirach Sir 26 27 22 Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded. +Sirach Sir 26 27 23 Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation: +Sirach Sir 26 27 24 But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul. +Sirach Sir 26 27 25 He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off: +Sirach Sir 26 27 26 In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock. +Sirach Sir 26 27 27 I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him. +Sirach Sir 26 27 28 If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful. +Sirach Sir 26 27 29 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a snare for another, shall perish in it. +Sirach Sir 26 27 30 A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and he shall not know from whence it cometh to him. +Sirach Sir 26 27 31 Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion shall lie in wait for him. +Sirach Sir 26 27 32 They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die. +Sirach Sir 26 27 33 Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them. +Sirach Sir 26 28 1 He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance. +Sirach Sir 26 28 2 Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy sins be forgiven to thee when thou prayest. +Sirach Sir 26 28 3 Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he seek remedy of God? +Sirach Sir 26 28 4 He hath no mercy on a man like himself, and doth he entreat for his own sins? +Sirach Sir 26 28 5 He that is but flesh, nourisheth anger, and doth he ask forgiveness of God? who shall obtain pardon for his sins? +Sirach Sir 26 28 6 Remember thy last things, and let enmity cease: +Sirach Sir 26 28 7 For corruption and death hang over in his commandments. +Sirach Sir 26 28 8 Remember the fear of God, and be not angry with thy neighbour. +Sirach Sir 26 28 9 Remember the covenant of the most High, and overlook the ignorance of thy neighbour. +Sirach Sir 26 28 10 Refrain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins. +Sirach Sir 26 28 11 For a passionate man kindleth strife, and a sinful man will trouble his friends, and bring in debate in the midst of them that are at peace. +Sirach Sir 26 28 12 For as the wood of the forest is, so the fire burneth, and as a man's strength is, so shall his anger be, and according to his riches he shall increase his anger. +Sirach Sir 26 28 13 A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death. +Sirach Sir 26 28 14 If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as a fire: and if thou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: both come out of the mouth. +Sirach Sir 26 28 15 The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath troubled many that were at peace. +Sirach Sir 26 28 16 The tongue of a third person hath disquieted many, and scattered them from nation to nation. +Sirach Sir 26 28 17 It hath destroyed the strong cities of the rich, and hath overthrown the houses of great men. +Sirach Sir 26 28 18 It hath cut in pieces the forces of people, and undone strong nations. +Sirach Sir 26 28 19 The tongue of a third person hath cast out valiant women, and deprived them of their labours. +Sirach Sir 26 28 20 He that hearkeneth to it, shall never have rest, neither shall he have a friend in whom he may repose. +Sirach Sir 26 28 21 The stroke of a whip maketh a blue mark: but the stroke of the tongue will break the bones. +Sirach Sir 26 28 22 Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have perished by their own tongue. +Sirach Sir 26 28 23 Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands. +Sirach Sir 26 28 24 For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass. +Sirach Sir 26 28 25 The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it. +Sirach Sir 26 28 26 Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. +Sirach Sir 26 28 27 They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them. +Sirach Sir 26 28 28 Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and make doors and bars to thy mouth. +Sirach Sir 26 28 29 Melt down thy gold and silver, and make a balance for thy words, and a just bridle for thy mouth: +Sirach Sir 26 28 30 And take heed lest thou slip with thy tongue, and fall in the sight of thy enemies who lie in wait for thee, and thy fall be incurable unto death. +Sirach Sir 26 29 1 He that sheweth mercy, lendeth to his neighbour: and he that is stronger in hand, keepeth the commandments. +Sirach Sir 26 29 2 Lend to thy neighbour in the time of his need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due time. +Sirach Sir 26 29 3 Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him: and thou shalt always find that which is necessary for thee. +Sirach Sir 26 29 4 Many have looked upon a thing lent as a thing found, and have given trouble to them that helped them. +Sirach Sir 26 29 5 Till they receive, they kiss the hands of the lender, and in promises they humble their voice: +Sirach Sir 26 29 6 But when they should repay, they will ask time, and will return tedious and murmuring words, and will complain of the time: +Sirach Sir 26 29 7 And if he be able to pay, he will stand off, he will scarce pay one half, and will count it as if he had found it: +Sirach Sir 26 29 8 But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get him for an enemy without cause. +Sirach Sir 26 29 9 And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of honour and good turn will repay him injuries. +Sirach Sir 26 29 10 Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause. +Sirach Sir 26 29 11 But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy. +Sirach Sir 26 29 12 Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his poverty. +Sirach Sir 26 29 13 Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost. +Sirach Sir 26 29 14 Place thy treasure in the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold. +Sirach Sir 26 29 15 Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and it shall obtain help for thee against all evil. +Sirach Sir 26 29 16 Better than the shield of the mighty, and better than the spear: +Sirach Sir 26 29 17 It shall fight for thee against thy enemy. +Sirach Sir 26 29 18 A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost shame, will leave him to himself. +Sirach Sir 26 29 19 Forget not the kindness of thy surety: for he hath given his life for thee. +Sirach Sir 26 29 20 The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety. +Sirach Sir 26 29 21 A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him. +Sirach Sir 26 29 22 A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him. +Sirach Sir 26 29 23 Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea. +Sirach Sir 26 29 24 It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries. +Sirach Sir 26 29 25 A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment. +Sirach Sir 26 29 26 Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not. +Sirach Sir 26 29 27 The chief thing for man's life is water and bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame. +Sirach Sir 26 29 28 Better is the poor man's fare under a roof of boards, than sumptuous cheer abroad in another man's house. +Sirach Sir 26 29 29 Be contented with little instead of much, and thou shalt not hear the reproach of going abroad. +Sirach Sir 26 29 30 It is a miserable life to go as a guest from house to house: for where a man is a stranger, he shall not deal confidently, nor open his mouth. +Sirach Sir 26 29 31 He shall entertain and feed, and give drink to the unthankful, and moreover he shall hear bitter words. +Sirach Sir 26 29 32 Go, stranger, and furnish the table, and give others to eat what thou hast in thy hand. +Sirach Sir 26 29 33 Give place to the honourable presence of my friends: for I want my house, my brother being to be lodged with me. +Sirach Sir 26 29 34 These things are grievous to a man of understanding: the upbraiding of houseroom, and the reproaching of the lender. +Sirach Sir 26 30 1 He that loveth his son, frequently chastiseth him, that he may rejoice in his latter end, and not grope after the doors of his neighbours. +Sirach Sir 26 30 2 He that instructeth his son shall be praised in him, and shall glory in him in the midst of them of his household. +Sirach Sir 26 30 3 He that teacheth his son, maketh his enemy jealous, and in the midst of his friends he shall glory in him. +Sirach Sir 26 30 4 His father is dead, and he is as if he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself. +Sirach Sir 26 30 5 While he lived he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died he was not sorrowful, neither was he confounded before his enemies. +Sirach Sir 26 30 6 For he left behind him a defender of his house against his enemies, and one that will requite kindness to his friends. +Sirach Sir 26 30 7 For the souls of his sons he shall bind up his wounds, and at every cry his bowels shall be troubled. +Sirach Sir 26 30 8 A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself will become headstrong. +Sirach Sir 26 30 9 Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he shall make thee sorrowful. +Sirach Sir 26 30 10 Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set on edge. +Sirach Sir 26 30 11 Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink not at his devices. +Sirach Sir 26 30 12 Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat his sides while he is a child, lest he grow stubborn, and regard thee not, and so be a sorrow of heart to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 30 13 Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 30 14 Better is a poor man who is sound, and strong of constitution, than a rich man who is weak and afflicted with evils. +Sirach Sir 26 30 15 Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all gold and silver: and a sound body, than immense revenues. +Sirach Sir 26 30 16 There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart. +Sirach Sir 26 30 17 Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness. +Sirach Sir 26 30 18 Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave. +Sirach Sir 26 30 19 What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell: +Sirach Sir 26 30 20 So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity: +Sirach Sir 26 30 21 He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing. +Sirach Sir 26 30 22 Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. +Sirach Sir 26 30 23 The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life. +Sirach Sir 26 30 24 Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee. +Sirach Sir 26 30 25 For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it. +Sirach Sir 26 30 26 Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time. +Sirach Sir 26 30 27 A cheerful and good heart is always feasting: for his banquets are prepared with diligence. +Sirach Sir 26 31 1 Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the thought thereof driveth away sleep. +Sirach Sir 26 31 2 The thinking beforehand turneth away the understanding, and a grievous sickness maketh the soul sober. +Sirach Sir 26 31 3 The rich man hath laboured in gathering riches together, and when he resteth he shall be filled with his goods. +Sirach Sir 26 31 4 The poor man hath laboured in his low way of life, and in the end he is still poor. +Sirach Sir 26 31 5 He that loveth gold, shall not be justified: and he that followeth after corruption, shall be filled with it. +Sirach Sir 26 31 6 Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof hath been their ruin. +Sirach Sir 26 31 7 Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sacrifice to it: woe to them that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall perish by it. +Sirach Sir 26 31 8 Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. +Sirach Sir 26 31 9 Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life. +Sirach Sir 26 31 10 Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: +Sirach Sir 26 31 11 Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms. +Sirach Sir 26 31 12 Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy mouth upon it. +Sirach Sir 26 31 13 Say not: There are many things which are upon it. +Sirach Sir 26 31 14 Remember that a wicked eye is evil. +Sirach Sir 26 31 15 What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep over all the face when it shall see. +Sirach Sir 26 31 16 Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion. +Sirach Sir 26 31 17 Be not hasty in a feast. +Sirach Sir 26 31 18 Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour by thyself. +Sirach Sir 26 31 19 Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be hated. +Sirach Sir 26 31 20 Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend. +Sirach Sir 26 31 21 And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of all, and be not the first to ask for drink. +Sirach Sir 26 31 22 How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain. +Sirach Sir 26 31 23 Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man: +Sirach Sir 26 31 24 Sound and wholesome sleep with a moderate man: he shall sleep till morning, and his soul shall be delighted with him. +Sirach Sir 26 31 25 And if thou hast been forced to eat much, arise, go out, and vomit: and it shall refresh thee, and thou shalt not bring sickness upon thy body. +Sirach Sir 26 31 26 Hear me, my son, and despise me not: and in the end thou shalt find my words. +Sirach Sir 26 31 27 In all thy works be quick, and no infirmity shall come to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 31 28 The lips of many shall bless him that is liberal of his bread, and the testimony of his truth is faithful. +Sirach Sir 26 31 29 Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true. +Sirach Sir 26 31 30 Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very many. +Sirach Sir 26 31 31 Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud. +Sirach Sir 26 31 32 Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be sober. +Sirach Sir 26 31 33 What is his life, who is diminished with wine? +Sirach Sir 26 31 34 What taketh away life? death. +Sirach Sir 26 31 35 Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk. +Sirach Sir 26 31 36 Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the heart. +Sirach Sir 26 31 37 Sober drinking is health to soul and body. +Sirach Sir 26 31 38 Wine drunken with excess raiseth quarrels, and wrath, and many ruins. +Sirach Sir 26 31 39 Wine drunken with excess is bitterness of the soul. +Sirach Sir 26 31 40 The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool, lessening strength and causing wounds. +Sirach Sir 26 31 41 Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of wine: and despise him not in his mirth. +Sirach Sir 26 31 42 Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in demanding again. +Sirach Sir 26 32 1 Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them. +Sirach Sir 26 32 2 Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place: +Sirach Sir 26 32 3 That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution. +Sirach Sir 26 32 4 Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee, +Sirach Sir 26 32 5 To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music. +Sirach Sir 26 32 6 Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 32 7 A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold. +Sirach Sir 26 32 8 As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine. +Sirach Sir 26 32 9 Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 32 10 Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause. +Sirach Sir 26 32 11 If thou be asked twice, let thy answer be short. +Sirach Sir 26 32 12 In many things be as if thou wert ignorant, and hear in silence and withal seeking. +Sirach Sir 26 32 13 In the company of great men take not upon thee: and when the ancients are present, speak not much. +Sirach Sir 26 32 14 Before a storm goeth lightning: and before shamefacedness goeth favour: and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee. +Sirach Sir 26 32 15 And at the time of rising be not slack: but be first to run home to thy house, and there withdraw thyself, and there take thy pastime. +Sirach Sir 26 32 16 And do what thou hast a mind, but not in sin or proud speech. +Sirach Sir 26 32 17 And for all these things bless the Lord, that made thee, and that replenisheth thee with all his good things. +Sirach Sir 26 32 18 He that feareth the Lord, will receive his discipline: and they that will seek him early, shall find a blessing. +Sirach Sir 26 32 19 He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein. +Sirach Sir 26 32 20 They that fear the Lord, shall find just judgment, and shall kindle justice as a light. +Sirach Sir 26 32 21 A sinful man will flee reproof, and will find an excuse according to his will. +Sirach Sir 26 32 22 A man of counsel will not neglect understanding, a strange and proud man will not dread fear: +Sirach Sir 26 32 23 Even after he hath done with fear without counsel, he shall be controlled by the things of his own seeking. +Sirach Sir 26 32 24 My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done. +Sirach Sir 26 32 25 Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul. +Sirach Sir 26 32 26 And beware of thy own children, and take heed of them of thy household. +Sirach Sir 26 32 27 In every work of thine regard thy soul in faith: for this is the keeping of the commandments. +Sirach Sir 26 32 28 He that believeth God, taketh heed to the commandments: and he that trusteth in him, shall fare never the worse. +Sirach Sir 26 33 1 No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in temptation God will keep him and deliver him from evils. +Sirach Sir 26 33 2 A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm. +Sirach Sir 26 33 3 A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law is faithful to him. +Sirach Sir 26 33 4 He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so having prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he shall answer. +Sirach Sir 26 33 5 The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree. +Sirach Sir 26 33 6 A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him. +Sirach Sir 26 33 7 Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun? +Sirach Sir 26 33 8 By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment. +Sirach Sir 26 33 9 And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour. +Sirach Sir 26 33 10 Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created. +Sirach Sir 26 33 11 With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified their ways. +Sirach Sir 26 33 12 Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned them from their station. +Sirach Sir 26 33 13 As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it: +Sirach Sir 26 33 14 All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment. +Sirach Sir 26 33 15 Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another. +Sirach Sir 26 33 16 And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers. +Sirach Sir 26 33 17 In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that gathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress. +Sirach Sir 26 33 18 See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that seek discipline. +Sirach Sir 26 33 19 Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the church. +Sirach Sir 26 33 20 Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou repent, and thou entreat for the same. +Sirach Sir 26 33 21 As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man change thee. +Sirach Sir 26 33 22 For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children. +Sirach Sir 26 33 23 In all thy works keep the pre-eminence. +Sirach Sir 26 33 24 Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou shalt end the days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy inheritance. +Sirach Sir 26 33 25 Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave. +Sirach Sir 26 33 26 He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty. +Sirach Sir 26 33 27 The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave. +Sirach Sir 26 33 28 Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle: +Sirach Sir 26 33 29 For idleness hath taught much evil. +Sirach Sir 26 33 30 Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thing without judgment. +Sirach Sir 26 33 31 If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him. +Sirach Sir 26 33 32 If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away: +Sirach Sir 26 33 33 And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him. +Sirach Sir 26 34 1 The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools. +Sirach Sir 26 34 2 The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. +Sirach Sir 26 34 3 The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man. +Sirach Sir 26 34 4 What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false? +Sirach Sir 26 34 5 Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity: +Sirach Sir 26 34 6 And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them. +Sirach Sir 26 34 7 For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them. +Sirach Sir 26 34 8 The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom shall be made plain in the mouth of the faithful. +Sirach Sir 26 34 9 What doth he know, that hath not been tried? A man that hath much experience, shall think of many things: and he that hath learned many things, shall shew forth understanding. +Sirach Sir 26 34 10 He that hath no experience, knoweth little: and he that hath been experienced in many things, multiplieth prudence. +Sirach Sir 26 34 11 He that hath not been tried, what manner of things doth he know? he that hath been surprised, shall abound with subtlety. +Sirach Sir 26 34 12 I have seen many things by travelling, and many customs of things. +Sirach Sir 26 34 13 Sometimes I have been in danger of death for these things, and I have been delivered by the grace of God. +Sirach Sir 26 34 14 The spirit of those that fear God, is sought after, and by his regard shall be blessed. +Sirach Sir 26 34 15 For their hope is on him that saveth them, and the eyes of God are upon them that love him. +Sirach Sir 26 34 16 He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not be afraid: for he is his hope. +Sirach Sir 26 34 17 The soul of him that feareth the Lord is blessed. +Sirach Sir 26 34 18 To whom doth he look, and who is his strength? +Sirach Sir 26 34 19 The eyes of the Lord are upon them that fear him, he is their powerful protector, and strong stay, a defence from the heat, and a cover from the sun at noon, +Sirach Sir 26 34 20 A preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling: he raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth health, and life, and blessing. +Sirach Sir 26 34 21 The offering of him that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, is stained, and the mockeries of the unjust are not acceptable. +Sirach Sir 26 34 22 The Lord is only for them that wait upon him in the way of truth and justice. +Sirach Sir 26 34 23 The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked: neither hath he respect to the oblations of the unjust, nor will he be pacified for sins by the multitude of their sacrifices. +Sirach Sir 26 34 24 He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father. +Sirach Sir 26 34 25 The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood. +Sirach Sir 26 34 26 He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour. +Sirach Sir 26 34 27 He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers. +Sirach Sir 26 34 28 When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour? +Sirach Sir 26 34 29 When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear? +Sirach Sir 26 34 30 He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail? +Sirach Sir 26 34 31 So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer? +Sirach Sir 26 35 1 He that keepeth the law, multiplieth offerings. +Sirach Sir 26 35 2 It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and to depart from all iniquity. +Sirach Sir 26 35 3 And to depart from injustice, is to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices, and a begging of pardon for sins. +Sirach Sir 26 35 4 He shall return thanks, that offereth fine flour: and he that doth mercy, offereth sacrifice. +Sirach Sir 26 35 5 To depart from iniquity is that which pleaseth the Lord, and to depart from injustice, is an entreaty for sins. +Sirach Sir 26 35 6 Thou shalt not appear empty in the sight of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 35 7 For all these things are to be done because of the commandment of God. +Sirach Sir 26 35 8 The oblation of the just maketh the altar fat, and is an odour of sweetness in the sight of the most High. +Sirach Sir 26 35 9 The sacrifice of the just is acceptable, and the Lord will not forget the memorial thereof. +Sirach Sir 26 35 10 Give glory to God with a good heart: and diminish not the firstfruits of thy hands. +Sirach Sir 26 35 11 In every gift shew a cheerful countenance, and sanctify thy tithes with joy. +Sirach Sir 26 35 12 Give to the most High according to what he hath given to thee, and with a good eye do according to the ability of thy hands: +Sirach Sir 26 35 13 For the Lord maketh recompense, and will give thee seven times as much. +Sirach Sir 26 35 14 Do not offer wicked gifts, for such he will not receive. +Sirach Sir 26 35 15 And look not upon an unjust sacrifice, for the Lord is judge, and there is not with him respect of person. +Sirach Sir 26 35 16 The Lord will not accept any person against a poor man, and he will hear the prayer of him that is wronged. +Sirach Sir 26 35 17 He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint. +Sirach Sir 26 35 18 Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall? +Sirach Sir 26 35 19 For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that heareth will not be delighted with them. +Sirach Sir 26 35 20 He that adoreth God with joy, shall be accepted, and his prayer shall approach even to the clouds. +Sirach Sir 26 35 21 The prayer of him that humbleth himself, shall pierce the clouds: and till it come nigh he will not be comforted: and he will not depart till the most High behold. +Sirach Sir 26 35 22 And the Lord will not be slack, but will judge for the just, and will do judgment: and the Almighty will not have patience with them, that he may crush their back: +Sirach Sir 26 35 23 And he will repay vengeance to the Gentiles, till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptres of the unjust, +Sirach Sir 26 35 24 Till he have rendered to men according to their deeds: and according to the works of Adam, and according to his presumption, +Sirach Sir 26 35 25 Till he have judged the cause of his people, and he shall delight the just with his mercy. +Sirach Sir 26 35 26 The mercy of God is beautiful in the time of affliction, as a cloud of rain in the time of drought. +Sirach Sir 26 36 1 Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the light of thy mercies: +Sirach Sir 26 36 2 And send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after thee: that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they may shew forth thy wonders. +Sirach Sir 26 36 3 Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power. +Sirach Sir 26 36 4 For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence, +Sirach Sir 26 36 5 That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there is no God beside thee, O Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 36 6 Renew thy signs, and work new miracles. +Sirach Sir 26 36 7 Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm. +Sirach Sir 26 36 8 Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath. +Sirach Sir 26 36 9 Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy. +Sirach Sir 26 36 10 Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works. +Sirach Sir 26 36 11 Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people. +Sirach Sir 26 36 12 Crush the head of the princes of the enemies that say: There is no other beside us. +Sirach Sir 26 36 13 Gather together all the tribes of Jacob: that they may know that there no God besides thee, and may declare thy great works: and thou shalt inherit them as from the beginning. +Sirach Sir 26 36 14 Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn. +Sirach Sir 26 36 15 Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city which thou hast sanctified, the city of thy rest. +Sirach Sir 26 36 16 Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and thy people with thy glory. +Sirach Sir 26 36 17 Give testimony to them that are thy creatures from the beginning, and raise up the prophecies which the former prophets spoke in thy name. +Sirach Sir 26 36 18 Reward them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may be found faithful: and hear the prayers of thy servants, +Sirach Sir 26 36 19 According to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, and direct us into the way of justice, and let all know that dwell upon the earth, that thou art God the beholder of all ages. +Sirach Sir 26 36 20 The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another. +Sirach Sir 26 36 21 The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches. +Sirach Sir 26 36 22 A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it. +Sirach Sir 26 36 23 A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than another. +Sirach Sir 26 36 24 The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing more. +Sirach Sir 26 36 25 If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men. +Sirach Sir 26 36 26 He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest. +Sirach Sir 26 36 27 Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want. +Sirach Sir 26 36 28 Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from city to city. +Sirach Sir 26 37 1 Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death? +Sirach Sir 26 37 2 But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy. +Sirach Sir 26 37 3 O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness? +Sirach Sir 26 37 4 There is a companion who rejoiceth with his friend in his joys, but in the time of trouble, he will be against him. +Sirach Sir 26 37 5 There is a companion who condoleth with his friend for his belly's sake, and he will take up a shield against the enemy. +Sirach Sir 26 37 6 Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in thy riches. +Sirach Sir 26 37 7 Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy counsel from them that envy thee. +Sirach Sir 26 37 8 Every counsellor giveth out counsel, but there is one that is a counsellor for himself. +Sirach Sir 26 37 9 Beware of a counsellor. And know before what need he hath: for he will devise to his own mind: +Sirach Sir 26 37 10 Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and say to thee: +Sirach Sir 26 37 11 Thy way is good; and then stand on the other side to see what shall befall thee. +Sirach Sir 26 37 12 Treat not with a man without religion concerning holiness, nor with an unjust man concerning justice, nor with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous, nor with a coward concerning war, nor with a merchant about traffic, nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an envious man of giving thanks, +Sirach Sir 26 37 13 Nor with the ungodly of piety, nor with the dishonest of honesty, nor with the field laborer of every work, +Sirach Sir 26 37 14 Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the year, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these in any matter of counsel. +Sirach Sir 26 37 15 But be continually with a holy man, whomsoever thou shalt know to observe the fear of God, +Sirach Sir 26 37 16 Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee. +Sirach Sir 26 37 17 And establish within thyself a heart of good counsel: for there is no other thing of more worth to thee than it. +Sirach Sir 26 37 18 The soul of a holy man discovereth sometimes true things, more than seven watchmen that sit in a high place to watch. +Sirach Sir 26 37 19 But above all these things pray to the most High, that he may direct thy way in truth. +Sirach Sir 26 37 20 In all thy works let the true word go before thee, and steady counsel before every action. +Sirach Sir 26 37 21 A wicked word shall change the heart: out of which four manner of things arise, good and evil, life and death: and the tongue is continually the ruler of them. There is a man that is subtle and a teacher of many, and yet is unprofitable to his own soul. +Sirach Sir 26 37 22 A skilful man hath taught many, and is sweet to his own soul. +Sirach Sir 26 37 23 He that speaketh sophistically, is hateful: he shall be destitute of every thing. +Sirach Sir 26 37 24 Grace is not given him from the Lord: for he is deprived of all wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 37 25 There is a wise man that is wise to his own soul: and the fruit of his understanding is commendable. +Sirach Sir 26 37 26 A wise man instructeth his own people, and the fruits of his understanding are faithful. +Sirach Sir 26 37 27 A wise man shall be filled with blessings, and they that see shall praise him. +Sirach Sir 26 37 28 The life of a man is in the number of his days: but the days of Israel are innumerable. +Sirach Sir 26 37 29 A wise man shall inherit honour among his people, and his name shall live for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 37 30 My son, prove thy soul in thy life: and if it be wicked, give it no power: +Sirach Sir 26 37 31 For all things are not expedient for all, and every kind pleaseth not every soul. +Sirach Sir 26 37 32 Be not greedy in any feasting, and pour not out thyself upon any meat: +Sirach Sir 26 37 33 For in many meats there will be sickness, and greediness will turn to choler. +Sirach Sir 26 37 34 By surfeiting many have perished, but he that is temperate, shall prolong life. +Sirach Sir 26 38 1 Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him. +Sirach Sir 26 38 2 For all healing is from God, and he shall receive gifts of the king. +Sirach Sir 26 38 3 The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the sight of great men he shall be praised. +Sirach Sir 26 38 4 The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them. +Sirach Sir 26 38 5 Was not bitter water made sweet with wood? +Sirach Sir 26 38 6 The virtue of these things is come to the knowledge of men, and the most High hath given knowledge to men, that he may be honoured in his wonders. +Sirach Sir 26 38 7 By these he shall cure and shall allay their pains, and of these the apothecary shall make sweet confections, and shall make up ointments of health, and of his works there shall be no end. +Sirach Sir 26 38 8 For the peace of God is over all the face of the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 38 9 My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the Lord, and he shall heal thee. +Sirach Sir 26 38 10 Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence. +Sirach Sir 26 38 11 Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician. +Sirach Sir 26 38 12 For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary. +Sirach Sir 26 38 13 For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands: +Sirach Sir 26 38 14 And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, for their conversation. +Sirach Sir 26 38 15 He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker, shall fall into the hands of the physician. +Sirach Sir 26 38 16 My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou hadst suffered some great harm, and according to judgment cover his body, and neglect not his burial. +Sirach Sir 26 38 17 And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness. +Sirach Sir 26 38 18 And make mourning for him according to his merit for a day, or two, for fear of detraction. +Sirach Sir 26 38 19 For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck. +Sirach Sir 26 38 20 In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart. +Sirach Sir 26 38 21 Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end. +Sirach Sir 26 38 22 Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him no good, and shalt hurt thyself. +Sirach Sir 26 38 23 Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so: yesterday for me, and to day for thee. +Sirach Sir 26 38 24 When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort him in the departing of his spirit. +Sirach Sir 26 38 25 The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 38 26 With what wisdom shall he be furnished that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is occupied in their labours, and his whole talk is about the offspring of bulls? +Sirach Sir 26 38 27 He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder. +Sirach Sir 26 38 28 So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work. +Sirach Sir 26 38 29 So doth the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the iron work. The vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace. +Sirach Sir 26 38 30 The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh. +Sirach Sir 26 38 31 He setteth his mind to finish his work, and his watching to polish them to perfection. +Sirach Sir 26 38 32 So doth the potter sitting at his work, turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set to his work, and maketh all his work by number: +Sirach Sir 26 38 33 He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet: +Sirach Sir 26 38 34 He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace. +Sirach Sir 26 38 35 All these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in his own art. +Sirach Sir 26 38 36 Without these a city is not built. +Sirach Sir 26 38 37 And they shall not dwell, nor walk about therein, and they shall not go up into the assembly. +Sirach Sir 26 38 38 Upon the judges' seat they shall not sit, and the ordinance of judgment they shall not understand, neither shall they declare discipline and judgment, and they shall not be found where parables are spoken: +Sirach Sir 26 38 39 But they shall strengthen the state of the world, and their prayer shall be in the work of their craft, applying their soul, and searching in the law of the most High. +Sirach Sir 26 39 1 The wise man will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, and will be occupied in the prophets. +Sirach Sir 26 39 2 He will keep the sayings of renowned men, and will enter withal into the subtilties of parables. +Sirach Sir 26 39 3 He will search out the hidden meanings of proverbs, and will be conversant in the secrets of parables. +Sirach Sir 26 39 4 He shall serve among great men, and appear before the governor. +Sirach Sir 26 39 5 He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men. +Sirach Sir 26 39 6 He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and he will pray in the sight of the most High. +Sirach Sir 26 39 7 He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for his sins. +Sirach Sir 26 39 8 For if it shall please the great Lord, he will fill him with the spirit of understanding: +Sirach Sir 26 39 9 And he will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers, and in his prayer he will confess to the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 39 10 And he shall direct his counsel, and his knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate. +Sirach Sir 26 39 11 He shall shew forth the discipline he hath learned, and shall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 39 12 Many shall praise his wisdom, and it shall never be forgotten. +Sirach Sir 26 39 13 The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation to generation. +Sirach Sir 26 39 14 Nations shall declare his wisdom, and the church shall shew forth his praise. +Sirach Sir 26 39 15 If he continue, he shall leave a name above a thousand: and if he rest, it shall be to his advantage. +Sirach Sir 26 39 16 I will yet meditate that I may declare: for I am filled as with a holy transport. +Sirach Sir 26 39 17 By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. +Sirach Sir 26 39 18 Give ye a sweet odour as frankincense. +Sirach Sir 26 39 19 Send forth flowers, as the lily, and yield a smell, and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works. +Sirach Sir 26 39 20 Magnify his name, and give glory to him with the voice of your lips, and with the canticles of your mouths, and with harps, and in praising him, you shall say in this manner: +Sirach Sir 26 39 21 All the works of the Lord are exceeding good. +Sirach Sir 26 39 22 At his word the waters stood as a heap: and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of waters: +Sirach Sir 26 39 23 For at his commandment favour is shewn, and there is no diminishing of his salvation. +Sirach Sir 26 39 24 The works of all flesh are before him, and there is nothing hid from his eyes. +Sirach Sir 26 39 25 He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him. +Sirach Sir 26 39 26 There is no saying: What is this, or what is that? for all things shall be sought in their time. +Sirach Sir 26 39 27 His blessing hath overflowed like a river. +Sirach Sir 26 39 28 And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have not sought after him. +Sirach Sir 26 39 29 Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners they are stumblingblocks in his wrath. +Sirach Sir 26 39 30 Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil things. +Sirach Sir 26 39 31 The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water, fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the cluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing. +Sirach Sir 26 39 32 All these things shall be for good to the holy, so to the sinners and the ungodly they shall be turned into evil. +Sirach Sir 26 39 33 There are spirits that are created for vengeance, and in their fury they lay on grievous torments. +Sirach Sir 26 39 34 In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrath of him that made them. +Sirach Sir 26 39 35 Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance. +Sirach Sir 26 39 36 The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword taking vengeance upon the ungodly unto destruction. +Sirach Sir 26 39 37 In his commandments they shall feast, and they shall be ready upon earth when need is, and when their time is come they shall not transgress his word. +Sirach Sir 26 39 38 Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and I have meditated, and thought on these things and left them in writing, +Sirach Sir 26 39 39 All the works of the Lord are good, and he will furnish every work in due time. +Sirach Sir 26 39 40 It is not to be said: This is worse than that: for all shall be well approved in their time. +Sirach Sir 26 39 41 Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 40 1 Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all. +Sirach Sir 26 40 2 Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end: +Sirach Sir 26 40 3 From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes: +Sirach Sir 26 40 4 From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife, +Sirach Sir 26 40 5 And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge. +Sirach Sir 26 40 6 A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch. +Sirach Sir 26 40 7 He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there is no fear. +Sirach Sir 26 40 8 Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more. +Sirach Sir 26 40 9 Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, oppressions, famine, and affliction, and scourges: +Sirach Sir 26 40 10 All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood. +Sirach Sir 26 40 11 All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea. +Sirach Sir 26 40 12 All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 40 13 The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain. +Sirach Sir 26 40 14 While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice: but transgressors shall pine away in the end. +Sirach Sir 26 40 15 The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock. +Sirach Sir 26 40 16 The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass. +Sirach Sir 26 40 17 Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 40 18 The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall be sweet, and in it thou shalt find a treasure. +Sirach Sir 26 40 19 Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be counted above them both. +Sirach Sir 26 40 20 Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both. +Sirach Sir 26 40 21 The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both. +Sirach Sir 26 40 22 Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields. +Sirach Sir 26 40 23 A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband. +Sirach Sir 26 40 24 Brethren are a help in the time of trouble, but mercy shall deliver more than they. +Sirach Sir 26 40 25 Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is above them both. +Sirach Sir 26 40 26 Riches and strength lift up the heart: but above these is the fear of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 40 27 There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek for help. +Sirach Sir 26 40 28 The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glory. +Sirach Sir 26 40 29 My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want. +Sirach Sir 26 40 30 The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat. +Sirach Sir 26 40 31 But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself. +Sirach Sir 26 40 32 Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire. +Sirach Sir 26 41 1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! +Sirach Sir 26 41 2 To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat! +Sirach Sir 26 41 3 O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: +Sirach Sir 26 41 4 Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience! +Sirach Sir 26 41 5 Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh. +Sirach Sir 26 41 6 And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years. +Sirach Sir 26 41 7 For among the dead there is no accusing of life. +Sirach Sir 26 41 8 The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly. +Sirach Sir 26 41 9 The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach. +Sirach Sir 26 41 10 The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach. +Sirach Sir 26 41 11 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 41 12 And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion. +Sirach Sir 26 41 13 All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction. +Sirach Sir 26 41 14 The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out. +Sirach Sir 26 41 15 Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great. +Sirach Sir 26 41 16 A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 41 17 My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both? +Sirach Sir 26 41 18 Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 41 19 Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of. +Sirach Sir 26 41 20 For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion. +Sirach Sir 26 41 21 Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: +Sirach Sir 26 41 22 Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people: +Sirach Sir 26 41 23 Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest, +Sirach Sir 26 41 24 Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking: +Sirach Sir 26 41 25 Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman. +Sirach Sir 26 41 26 Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring. +Sirach Sir 26 41 27 Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed. +Sirach Sir 26 41 28 Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not. +Sirach Sir 26 42 1 Repeat not the word which thou hast heard, and disclose not the thing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and shalt find favour before all men: be not ashamed of any of these things, and accept no person to sin thereby: +Sirach Sir 26 42 2 Of the law of the most High, and of his covenant, and of judgment to justify the ungodly: +Sirach Sir 26 42 3 Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends: +Sirach Sir 26 42 4 Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little: +Sirach Sir 26 42 5 Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed. +Sirach Sir 26 42 6 Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife. +Sirach Sir 26 42 7 Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in. +Sirach Sir 26 42 8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living. +Sirach Sir 26 42 9 The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful: +Sirach Sir 26 42 10 In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with child in her father's house: and having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself, or at the least become barren. +Sirach Sir 26 42 11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude. +Sirach Sir 26 42 12 Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not among women. +Sirach Sir 26 42 13 For from garments cometh a moth, and from a woman the iniquity of a man. +Sirach Sir 26 42 14 For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach. +Sirach Sir 26 42 15 I will now remember the works of the Lord, and I will declare the things I have seen. By the words of the Lord are his works. +Sirach Sir 26 42 16 The sun giving light hath looked upon all things, and full of the glory of the Lord is his work. +Sirach Sir 26 42 17 Hath not the Lord made the saints to declare all his wonderful works, which the Lord Almighty hath firmly settled to be established for his glory? +Sirach Sir 26 42 18 He hath searched out the deep, and the heart of men: and considered their crafty devices. +Sirach Sir 26 42 19 For the Lord knoweth all knowledge, and hath beheld the signs of the world, he declareth the things that are past, and the things that are to come, and revealeth the traces of hidden things. +Sirach Sir 26 42 20 No thought escapeth him, and no word can hide itself from him. +Sirach Sir 26 42 21 He hath beautified the glorious works of his wisdom: and he is from eternity to eternity, and to him nothing may be added, +Sirach Sir 26 42 22 Nor can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor. +Sirach Sir 26 42 23 O how desirable are all his works, and what we can know is but as a spark! +Sirach Sir 26 42 24 All these things live, and remain for ever, and for every use all things obey him. +Sirach Sir 26 42 25 All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective. +Sirach Sir 26 42 26 He hath established the good things of every one. And who shall be filled with beholding his glory? +Sirach Sir 26 43 1 The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew. +Sirach Sir 26 43 2 The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High. +Sirach Sir 26 43 3 At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat: +Sirach Sir 26 43 4 The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes. +Sirach Sir 26 43 5 Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course. +Sirach Sir 26 43 6 And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world. +Sirach Sir 26 43 7 From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that decreaseth in her perfection. +Sirach Sir 26 43 8 The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her perfection. +Sirach Sir 26 43 9 Being an instrument of the armies on high, shining gloriously in the firmament of heaven. +Sirach Sir 26 43 10 The glory of the stars is the beauty of heaven; the Lord enlighteneth the world on high. +Sirach Sir 26 43 11 By the words of the holy one they stand in judgment, and shall never fall in their watches. +Sirach Sir 26 43 12 Look upon the rainbow, and bless him that made it: it is very beautiful in its brightness. +Sirach Sir 26 43 13 It encompasseth the heaven about with the circle of its glory, the hands of the most High have displayed it. +Sirach Sir 26 43 14 By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment. +Sirach Sir 26 43 15 Through this are the treasures opened, and the clouds fly out like birds. +Sirach Sir 26 43 16 By his greatness he hath fixed the clouds, and the hailstones are broken. +Sirach Sir 26 43 17 At his sight shall the mountains be shaken, and at his will the south wind shall blow. +Sirach Sir 26 43 18 The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the northern storm, and the whirlwind: +Sirach Sir 26 43 19 And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts. +Sirach Sir 26 43 20 The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof. +Sirach Sir 26 43 21 He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles. +Sirach Sir 26 43 22 The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into crystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and shall clothe the waters as a breastplate. +Sirach Sir 26 43 23 And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire. +Sirach Sir 26 43 24 A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it. +Sirach Sir 26 43 25 At his word the wind is still, and with his thought he appeaseth the deep, and the Lord hath planted islands therein. +Sirach Sir 26 43 26 Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we shall admire. +Sirach Sir 26 43 27 There are great and wonderful works: a variety of beasts, and of all living things, and the monstrous creatures of whales. +Sirach Sir 26 43 28 Through him is established the end of their journey, and by his word all things are regulated. +Sirach Sir 26 43 29 We shall say much, and yet shall want words: but the sum of our words is, He is all. +Sirach Sir 26 43 30 What shall we be able to do to glorify him? for the Almighty himself is above all his works. +Sirach Sir 26 43 31 The Lord is terrible, and exceeding great, and his power is admirable. +Sirach Sir 26 43 32 Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can, for he will yet far exceed, and his magnificence is wonderful. +Sirach Sir 26 43 33 Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can; for he is above all praise. +Sirach Sir 26 43 34 When you exalt him put forth all your strength, and be not weary: for you can never go far enough. +Sirach Sir 26 43 35 Who shall see him, and declare him? and who shall magnify him as he is from the beginning? +Sirach Sir 26 43 36 There are many things hidden from us that are greater than these: for we have seen but a few of his works. +Sirach Sir 26 43 37 But the Lord hath made all things, and to the godly he hath given wisdom. +Sirach Sir 26 44 1 Let us now praise men of renown and our fathers in their generation. +Sirach Sir 26 44 2 The Lord hath wrought great glory through his magnificence from the beginning. +Sirach Sir 26 44 3 Such as have borne rule in their dominions, men of great power, and endued with their wisdom, shewing forth in the prophets the dignity of prophets, +Sirach Sir 26 44 4 And ruling over the present people, and by the strength of wisdom instructing the people in most holy words. +Sirach Sir 26 44 5 Such as by their skill sought out musical tunes, and published canticles of the scriptures. +Sirach Sir 26 44 6 Rich men in virtue, studying beautifulness: living at peace in their houses. +Sirach Sir 26 44 7 All these have gained glory in their generations, and were praised in their days. +Sirach Sir 26 44 8 They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that their praises might be related: +Sirach Sir 26 44 9 And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been born, and their children with them. +Sirach Sir 26 44 10 But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed: +Sirach Sir 26 44 11 Good things continue with their seed, +Sirach Sir 26 44 12 Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and their seed hath stood in the covenants. +Sirach Sir 26 44 13 And their children for their sakes remain for ever: their seed and their glory shall not be forsaken. +Sirach Sir 26 44 14 Their bodies are buried in peace, and their name liveth unto generation and generation. +Sirach Sir 26 44 15 Let the people shew forth their wisdom, and the church declare their praise. +Sirach Sir 26 44 16 Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the nations. +Sirach Sir 26 44 17 Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was made a reconciliation. +Sirach Sir 26 44 18 Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood came. +Sirach Sir 26 44 19 The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh should no more be destroyed with the flood. +Sirach Sir 26 44 20 Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him. +Sirach Sir 26 44 21 In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he was found faithful. +Sirach Sir 26 44 22 Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he should increase as the dust of the earth, +Sirach Sir 26 44 23 And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should inherit from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 44 24 And he did in like manner with Isaac for the sake of Abraham his father. +Sirach Sir 26 44 25 The Lord gave him the blessing of all nations, and confirmed his covenant upon the head of Jacob. +Sirach Sir 26 44 26 He acknowledged him in his blessings, and gave him an inheritance, and divided him his portion in twelve tribes. +Sirach Sir 26 44 27 And he preserved for him men of mercy, that found grace in the eyes of all flesh. +Sirach Sir 26 45 1 Moses was beloved of God, and men: whose memory is in benediction. +Sirach Sir 26 45 2 He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the fear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies to cease. +Sirach Sir 26 45 3 He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory. +Sirach Sir 26 45 4 He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh. +Sirach Sir 26 45 5 For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud. +Sirach Sir 26 45 6 And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life and instruction, that he might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his judgments. +Sirach Sir 26 45 7 He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of Levi: +Sirach Sir 26 45 8 He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the priesthood of the nation, and made him blessed in glory, +Sirach Sir 26 45 9 And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire. +Sirach Sir 26 45 10 He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about, +Sirach Sir 26 45 11 That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people. +Sirach Sir 26 45 12 He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven work of a wise man, endued with judgment and truth: +Sirach Sir 26 45 13 Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones cut and set in gold, and graven by the work of a lapidary for a memorial, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. +Sirach Sir 26 45 14 And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the eyes for its beauty. +Sirach Sir 26 45 15 Before him there were none so beautiful, even from the beginning. +Sirach Sir 26 45 16 No stranger was ever clothed with them, but only his children alone, and his grandchildren for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 45 17 His sacrifices were consumed with fire every day. +Sirach Sir 26 45 18 Moses filled his hands and anointed him with holy oil. +Sirach Sir 26 45 19 This was made to him for an everlasting testament, and to his seed as the days of heaven, to execute the office of the priesthood, and to have praise, and to glorify his people in his name. +Sirach Sir 26 45 20 He chose him out of all men living, to offer sacrifice to God, incense, and a good savour, for a memorial to make reconciliation for his people: +Sirach Sir 26 45 21 And he gave him power in his commandments, in the covenants of his judgments, that he should teach Jacob his testimonies, and give light to Israel in his law. +Sirach Sir 26 45 22 And strangers stood up against him, and through envy the men that were with Dathan and Abiron, compassed him about in the wilderness, and the congregation of Core in their wrath. +Sirach Sir 26 45 23 The Lord God saw and it pleased him not, and they were consumed in his wrathful indignation. +Sirach Sir 26 45 24 He wrought wonders upon them, and consumed them with a flame of fire. +Sirach Sir 26 45 25 And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 45 26 He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his seed. +Sirach Sir 26 45 27 But he shall not inherit among the people in the land, and he hath no portion among the people: for he himself is his portion and inheritance. +Sirach Sir 26 45 28 Phinees the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, by imitating him in the fear of the Lord: +Sirach Sir 26 45 29 And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel. +Sirach Sir 26 45 30 Therefore he made to him a covenant of peace, to be the prince of the sanctuary, and of his people, that the dignity of priesthood should be to him and to his seed for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 45 31 And a covenant to David the king, the son of Jesse of the tribe of Juda, an inheritance to him and to his seed, that he might give wisdom into our heart to judge his people in justice, that their good things might not be abolished, and he made their glory in their nation everlasting. +Sirach Sir 26 46 1 Valiant in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of Moses among the prophets, who was great according to his name, +Sirach Sir 26 46 2 Very great for the saving the elect of God, to overthrow the enemies that rose up against them, that he might get the inheritance for Israel. +Sirach Sir 26 46 3 How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and stretched out swords against the cities? +Sirach Sir 26 46 4 Who before him hath so resisted? for the Lord himself brought the enemies. +Sirach Sir 26 46 5 Was not the sun stopped in his anger, and one day made as two? +Sirach Sir 26 46 6 He called upon the most high Sovereign when the enemies assaulted him on every side, and the great and holy God heard him by hailstones of exceeding great force. +Sirach Sir 26 46 7 He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries. +Sirach Sir 26 46 8 That the nations might know his power, that it is not easy to fight against God. And he followed the mighty one: +Sirach Sir 26 46 9 And in the days of Moses he did a work of mercy, he and Caleb the son of Jephone, in standing against the enemy, and withholding the people from sins, and appeasing the wicked murmuring. +Sirach Sir 26 46 10 And they two being appointed, were delivered out of the danger from among the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring them into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and honey. +Sirach Sir 26 46 11 And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance: +Sirach Sir 26 46 12 That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to obey the holy God. +Sirach Sir 26 46 13 Then all the judges, every one by name, whose heart was not corrupted: who turned not away from the Lord, +Sirach Sir 26 46 14 That their memory might be blessed, and their bones spring up out of their place, +Sirach Sir 26 46 15 And their name continue for ever, the glory of the holy men remaining unto their children. +Sirach Sir 26 46 16 Samuel the prophet of the Lord, the beloved of the Lord his God, established a new government, and anointed princes over his people. +Sirach Sir 26 46 17 By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the God of Jacob beheld, and by his fidelity he was proved a prophet. +Sirach Sir 26 46 18 And he was known to be faithful in his words, because he saw the God of light: +Sirach Sir 26 46 19 And called upon the name of the Lord Almighty, in fighting against the enemies who beset him on every side, when he offered a lamb without blemish. +Sirach Sir 26 46 20 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made his voice to be heard. +Sirach Sir 26 46 21 And he crushed the princes of the Tyrians, and all the lords of the Philistines: +Sirach Sir 26 46 22 And before the time of the end of his life in the world, he protested before the Lord, and his anointed: money, or any thing else, even to a shoe, he had not taken of any man, and no man did accuse him. +Sirach Sir 26 46 23 And after this he slept, and he made known to the king, and shewed him the end of his life, and he lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy to blot out the wickedness of the nation. +Sirach Sir 26 47 1 Then Nathan the prophet arose in the days of David. +Sirach Sir 26 47 2 And as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen from among the children of Israel. +Sirach Sir 26 47 3 He played with lions as with lambs: and with bears he did in like manner as with the lambs of the flock, in his youth. +Sirach Sir 26 47 4 Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his people? +Sirach Sir 26 47 5 In lifting up his hand, with the stone in the sling he beat down the boasting of Goliath: +Sirach Sir 26 47 6 For he called upon the Lord the Almighty, and he gave strength in his right hand, to take away the mighty warrior, and to set up the horn of his nation. +Sirach Sir 26 47 7 So in ten thousand did he glorify him, and praised him in the blessings of the Lord, in offering to him a crown of glory: +Sirach Sir 26 47 8 For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and extirpated the Philistines the adversaries unto this day: he broke their horn for ever. +Sirach Sir 26 47 9 In all his works he gave thanks to the holy one, and to the most High, with words of glory. +Sirach Sir 26 47 10 With his whole heart he praised the Lord, and loved God that made him: and he gave him power against his enemies: +Sirach Sir 26 47 11 And he set singers before the altar, and by their voices he made sweet melody. +Sirach Sir 26 47 12 And to the festivals he added beauty, and set in order the solemn times even to the end of his life, that they should praise the holy name of the Lord, and magnify the holiness of God in the morning. +Sirach Sir 26 47 13 The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever: and he gave him a covenant of the kingdom, and a throne of glory in Israel. +Sirach Sir 26 47 14 After him arose up a wise son, and for his sake he cast down all the power of the enemies. +Sirach Sir 26 47 15 Solomon reigned in days of peace, and God brought all his enemies under him, that he might build a house in his name, and prepare a sanctuary for ever: O how wise wast thou in thy youth! +Sirach Sir 26 47 16 And thou wast filled as a river with wisdom, and thy soul covered the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 47 17 And thou didst multiply riddles in parables: thy name went abroad to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved in thy peace. +Sirach Sir 26 47 18 The countries wondered at thee for thy canticles, and proverbs, and parables, and interpretations, +Sirach Sir 26 47 19 And at the name of the Lord God, whose surname is, God of Israel. +Sirach Sir 26 47 20 Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst multiply silver as lead, +Sirach Sir 26 47 21 And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast brought under subjection. +Sirach Sir 26 47 22 Thou hast stained thy glory, and defiled thy seed so as to bring wrath upon thy children, and to have thy folly kindled, +Sirach Sir 26 47 23 That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious kingdom to rule. +Sirach Sir 26 47 24 But God will not leave off his mercy, and he will not destroy, nor abolish his own works, neither will he cut up by the roots the offspring of his elect: and he will not utterly take away the seed of him that loveth the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 47 25 Wherefore he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David of the same stock. +Sirach Sir 26 47 26 And Solomon had an end with his fathers. +Sirach Sir 26 47 27 And he left behind him of his seed, the folly of the nation, +Sirach Sir 26 47 28 Even Roboam that had little wisdom, who turned away the people through his counsel: +Sirach Sir 26 47 29 And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin, and their sins were multiplied exceedingly. +Sirach Sir 26 47 30 They removed them far away from their land. +Sirach Sir 26 47 31 And they sought out all iniquities, till vengeance came upon them, and put an end to all their sins. +Sirach Sir 26 48 1 And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch. +Sirach Sir 26 48 2 He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in their envy, were reduced to a small number, for they could not endure the commandments of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 48 3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he brought down fire from heaven thrice. +Sirach Sir 26 48 4 Thus was Elias magnified in his wondrous works. And who can glory like to thee? +Sirach Sir 26 48 5 Who raisedst up a dead man from below, from the lot of death, by the word of the Lord God. +Sirach Sir 26 48 6 Who broughtest down kings to destruction, and brokest easily their power in pieces, and the glorious from their bed. +Sirach Sir 26 48 7 Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of vengeance. +Sirach Sir 26 48 8 Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors after thee. +Sirach Sir 26 48 9 Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses. +Sirach Sir 26 48 10 Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob. +Sirach Sir 26 48 11 Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship. +Sirach Sir 26 48 12 For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not be such. +Sirach Sir 26 48 13 Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man was more powerful than he. +Sirach Sir 26 48 14 No word could overcome him, and after death his body prophesied. +Sirach Sir 26 48 15 In his life he did great wonders, and in death he wrought miracles. +Sirach Sir 26 48 16 For all this the people repented not, neither did they depart from their sins till they were cast out of their land, and were scattered through all the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 48 17 And there was left but a small people, and a prince in the house of David. +Sirach Sir 26 48 18 Some of these did that which pleased God: but others committed many sins. +Sirach Sir 26 48 19 Ezechias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof, and he digged a rock with iron, and made a well for water. +Sirach Sir 26 48 20 In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against them, and he stretched out his hand against Sion, and became proud through his power. +Sirach Sir 26 48 21 Then their hearts and hands trembled, and they were in pain as women in travail. +Sirach Sir 26 48 22 And they called upon the Lord who is merciful, and spreading their hands, they lifted them up to heaven: and the holy Lord God quickly heard their voice. +Sirach Sir 26 48 23 He was not mindful of their sins, neither did he deliver them up to their enemies, but he purified them by the hand of Isaias, the holy prophet. +Sirach Sir 26 48 24 He overthrew the army of the Assyrians, and the angel of the Lord destroyed them. +Sirach Sir 26 48 25 For Ezechias did that which pleased God, and walked valiantly in the way of David his father, which Isaias, the great prophet, and faithful in the sight of God, had commanded him. +Sirach Sir 26 48 26 In his days the sun wen backward, and he lengthened the king's life. +Sirach Sir 26 48 27 With a great spirit he saw the things that are to come to pass at last, and comforted the mourners in Sion. +Sirach Sir 26 48 28 He showed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things before they came. +Sirach Sir 26 49 1 The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell made by the art of a perfumer: +Sirach Sir 26 49 2 His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, and as music at a banquet of wine. +Sirach Sir 26 49 3 He was directed by God unto the repentance of the nation, and he took away the abominations of wickedness. +Sirach Sir 26 49 4 And he directed his heart towards the Lord, and in the days of sinners he strengthened godliness. +Sirach Sir 26 49 5 Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all committed sin. +Sirach Sir 26 49 6 For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and despised the fear of God. +Sirach Sir 26 49 7 So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange nation, +Sirach Sir 26 49 8 They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias. +Sirach Sir 26 49 9 For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew. +Sirach Sir 26 49 10 It was Ezechiel that saw the glorious vision, which was shewn him upon the chariot of cherubims. +Sirach Sir 26 49 11 For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of rain, and of doing good to them that shewed right ways. +Sirach Sir 26 49 12 And may the bones of the twelve prophets spring up out of their place: for they strengthened Jacob, and redeemed themselves by strong faith. +Sirach Sir 26 49 13 How shall we magnify Zorobabel? for he was as a signet on the right hand; +Sirach Sir 26 49 14 In like manner Jesus the son of Josedec who in their days built the house, and set up a holy temple to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory. +Sirach Sir 26 49 15 And let Nehemias be a long time remembered, who raised up for us our walls that were cast down, and set up the gates and the bars, who rebuilt our houses. +Sirach Sir 26 49 16 No man was born upon earth like Henoch: for he also was taken up from the earth. +Sirach Sir 26 49 17 Nor as Joseph, who was a man born prince of his brethren, the support of his family, the ruler of his brethren, the stay of the people: +Sirach Sir 26 49 18 And his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied. +Sirach Sir 26 49 19 Seth and Sem obtained glory among men: and above every soul Adam in the beginning, +Sirach Sir 26 50 1 Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his days fortified the temple. +Sirach Sir 26 50 2 By him also the height of the temple was founded, the double building and the high walls of the temple. +Sirach Sir 26 50 3 In his days the wells of water flowed out, and they were filled as the sea above measure. +Sirach Sir 26 50 4 He took care of his nation, and delivered it from destruction. +Sirach Sir 26 50 5 He prevailed to enlarge the city, and obtained glory in his conversation with the people: and enlarged the entrance of the house and the court. +Sirach Sir 26 50 6 He shone in his days as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the full. +Sirach Sir 26 50 7 And as the sun when it shineth, so did he shine in the temple of God. +Sirach Sir 26 50 8 And as the rainbow giving light in bright clouds, and as the flower of roses in the days of the spring, and as the lilies that are on the brink of the water, and as the sweet smelling frankincense in the time of summer. +Sirach Sir 26 50 9 As a bright fire, and frankincense burning in the fire. +Sirach Sir 26 50 10 As a massy vessel of gold, adorned with every precious stone. +Sirach Sir 26 50 11 As an olive tree budding forth, and a cypress tree rearing itself on high, when he put on the robe of glory, and was clothed with the perfection of power. +Sirach Sir 26 50 12 When he went up to the holy altar, he honoured the vesture of holiness. +Sirach Sir 26 50 13 And when he took the portions out of the hands of the priests, he himself stood by the altar. And about him was the ring of his brethren: and as the cedar planted in mount Libanus, +Sirach Sir 26 50 14 And as branches of palm trees, they stood round about him, and all the sons of Aaron in their glory. +Sirach Sir 26 50 15 And the oblation of the Lord was in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel: and finishing his service, on the altar, to honour the offering of the most high King, +Sirach Sir 26 50 16 He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of the blood of the grape. +Sirach Sir 26 50 17 He poured out at the foot of the altar a divine odour to the most high Prince. +Sirach Sir 26 50 18 Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before God. +Sirach Sir 26 50 19 Then all the people together made haste, and fell down to the earth upon their faces, to adore the Lord their God, and to pray to the Almighty God the most High. +Sirach Sir 26 50 20 And the singers lifted up their voices, and in the great house the sound of sweet melody was increased. +Sirach Sir 26 50 21 And the people in prayer besought the Lord the most High, until the worship of the Lord was perfected, and they had finished their office. +Sirach Sir 26 50 22 Then coming down, he lifted up his hands over all the congregation of the children of Israel, to give glory to God with his lips, and to glory in his name: +Sirach Sir 26 50 23 And he repeated his prayer, willing to shew the power of God. +Sirach Sir 26 50 24 And now pray ye to the God of all, who hath done great things in all the earth, who hath increased our days from our mother's womb, and hath done with us according to his mercy. +Sirach Sir 26 50 25 May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and that there be peace in our days in Israel for ever: +Sirach Sir 26 50 26 That Israel may believe that the mercy of God is with us, to deliver us in his days. +Sirach Sir 26 50 27 There are two nations which my soul abhorreth: and the third is no nation: which I hate: +Sirach Sir 26 50 28 They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem. +Sirach Sir 26 50 29 Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem, hath written in this book the doctrine of wisdom and instruction, who renewed wisdom from his heart. +Sirach Sir 26 50 30 Blessed is he that is conversant in these good things and he that layeth them up in his heart, shall be wise always. +Sirach Sir 26 50 31 For if he do them, he shall be strong to do all things: because the light of God guideth his steps. +Sirach Sir 26 51 1 A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach. I will give glory to thee, O Lord, O King, and I will praise thee, O God my Saviour. +Sirach Sir 26 51 2 I will give glory to thy name: for thou hast been a helper and protector to me. +Sirach Sir 26 51 3 And hast preserved my body from destruction, from the snare of an unjust tongue, and from the lips of them that forge lies, and in the sight of them that stood by, thou hast been my helper. +Sirach Sir 26 51 4 And thou hast delivered me, according to the multitude of the mercy of thy name, from them that did roar, prepared to devour. +Sirach Sir 26 51 5 Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates of afflictions, which compassed me about: +Sirach Sir 26 51 6 From the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the midst of the fire I was not burnt. +Sirach Sir 26 51 7 From the depth of the belly of hell, and from an unclean tongue, and from lying words, from an unjust king, and from a slanderous tongue: +Sirach Sir 26 51 8 My soul shall praise the Lord even to death. +Sirach Sir 26 51 9 And my life was drawing near to hell beneath. +Sirach Sir 26 51 10 They compassed me on every side, and there was no one that would help me. I looked for the succour of men, and there was none. +Sirach Sir 26 51 11 I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy works, which are from the beginning of the world. +Sirach Sir 26 51 12 How thou deliverest them that wait for thee, O Lord, and savest them out of the hands of the nations. +Sirach Sir 26 51 13 Thou hast exalted my dwelling place upon the earth and I have prayed for death to pass away. +Sirach Sir 26 51 14 I called upon the Lord, the father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the day of my trouble, and in the time of the proud without help. +Sirach Sir 26 51 15 I will praise thy name continually, and will praise it with thanksgiving, and my prayer was heard. +Sirach Sir 26 51 16 And thou hast saved me from destruction, and hast delivered me from the evil time. +Sirach Sir 26 51 17 Therefore I will give thanks, and praise thee, and bless the name of the Lord. +Sirach Sir 26 51 18 When I was yet young, before I wandered about, I sought for wisdom openly in my prayer. +Sirach Sir 26 51 19 I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will seek after her, and she flourished as a grape soon ripe. +Sirach Sir 26 51 20 My heart delighted in her, my foot walked in the right way, from my youth up I sought after her. +Sirach Sir 26 51 21 I bowed down my ear a little, and received her. +Sirach Sir 26 51 22 I found much wisdom in myself, and profited much therein. +Sirach Sir 26 51 23 To him that giveth me wisdom, will I give glory. +Sirach Sir 26 51 24 For I have determined to follow her: I have had a zeal for good, and shall not be confounded. +Sirach Sir 26 51 25 My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been confirmed. +Sirach Sir 26 51 26 I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance of her. +Sirach Sir 26 51 27 I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her. +Sirach Sir 26 51 28 I possessed my heart with her from the beginning: therefore I shall not be forsaken. +Sirach Sir 26 51 29 My entrails were troubled in seeking her: therefore shall I possess a good possession. +Sirach Sir 26 51 30 The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward: and with it I will praise him. +Sirach Sir 26 51 31 Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together into the hours of discipline. +Sirach Sir 26 51 32 Why are ye slow and what do you say of these things? your souls are exceeding thirsty. +Sirach Sir 26 51 33 I have opened my mouth, and have spoken: buy her for yourselves without silver, +Sirach Sir 26 51 34 And submit your neck to the yoke, and let your soul receive discipline: for she is near at hand to be found. +Sirach Sir 26 51 35 Behold with your eyes how I have laboured a little, and have found much rest to myself. +Sirach Sir 26 51 36 Receive ye discipline as a great sum of money, and possess abundance of gold by her. +Sirach Sir 26 51 37 Let your soul rejoice in his mercy and you shall not be confounded in his praise. +Sirach Sir 26 51 38 Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward in his time. +Baruch Bar 30 1 1 And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Sedei, the son Helcias, wrote in Babylonia. +Baruch Bar 30 1 2 In the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time that the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire. +Baruch Bar 30 1 3 And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hearing of all the people that came to hear the book. +Baruch Bar 30 1 4 And in the hearing of the nobles, the sons of the kings, and in the hearing of the ancients, and in the hearing of the people, from the least even to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by the river Sedi. +Baruch Bar 30 1 5 And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord. +Baruch Bar 30 1 6 And they made a collection of money according to every man's power. +Baruch Bar 30 1 7 And they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the priest, the son of Helcias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people, that were found with him in Jerusalem: +Baruch Bar 30 1 8 At the time when he received the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which had been taken away out of the temple, to return them into the land of Juda the tenth day of the month Sivan, the silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made, +Baruch Bar 30 1 9 After that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and all the powerful men, and the people of the land from Jerusalem, and brought them bound to Babylon. +Baruch Bar 30 1 10 And they said: Behold we have sent you money, buy with it holocausts, and frankincense, and make meat offerings, and offerings for sin at the altar of the Lord our God: +Baruch Bar 30 1 11 And pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven: +Baruch Bar 30 1 12 And that the Lord may give us strength, and enlighten our eyes, that we may live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and may serve them many days, and may find favour in their sight. +Baruch Bar 30 1 13 And pray ye for us to the Lord our God: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned away from us even to this day. +Baruch Bar 30 1 14 And read ye this book, which we have sent to you to be read in the temple of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days. +Baruch Bar 30 1 15 And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth justice, but to us confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to all Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, +Baruch Bar 30 1 16 To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers. +Baruch Bar 30 1 17 We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not believed him, nor put our trust in him: +Baruch Bar 30 1 18 And we were not obedient to him, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments which he hath given us. +Baruch Bar 30 1 19 From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going astray we turned away from hearing his voice. +Baruch Bar 30 1 20 And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord foretold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. +Baruch Bar 30 1 21 And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us: +Baruch Bar 30 1 22 And we have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God. +Baruch Bar 30 2 1 Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda: +Baruch Bar 30 2 2 That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses: +Baruch Bar 30 2 3 That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter. +Baruch Bar 30 2 4 And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us. +Baruch Bar 30 2 5 And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice. +Baruch Bar 30 2 6 To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. +Baruch Bar 30 2 7 For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are come upon us: +Baruch Bar 30 2 8 And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we might return every one of us from our most wicked ways. +Baruch Bar 30 2 9 And the Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is just in all his works which he hath commanded us: +Baruch Bar 30 2 10 And we have not hearkened to his voice to walk in the commandments of the Lord which he hath set before us. +Baruch Bar 30 2 11 And now, O Lord God of Israel, who hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with thy great power, and with a mighty arm, and hast made thee a name as at this day, +Baruch Bar 30 2 12 We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have acted unjustly, O Lord our God, against all thy justices. +Baruch Bar 30 2 13 Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are left a few among the nations where thou hast scattered us. +Baruch Bar 30 2 14 Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our petitions, and deliver us for thy own sake: and grant that we may find favour in the sight of them that have led us away: +Baruch Bar 30 2 15 That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, and that thy name is called upon Israel, and upon his posterity. +Baruch Bar 30 2 16 Look down upon us, O Lord, from thy holy house, and incline thy ear, and hear us. +Baruch Bar 30 2 17 Open thy eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in hell, whose spirit is taken away from their bowels, shall not give glory and justice to the Lord: +Baruch Bar 30 2 18 But the soul that is sorrowful for the greatness of evil she hath done, and goeth bowed down, and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul giveth glory and justice to thee the Lord. +Baruch Bar 30 2 19 For it is not for the justices of our fathers that we pour out our prayers, and beg mercy in thy sight, O Lord our God: +Baruch Bar 30 2 20 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath, and thy indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: +Baruch Bar 30 2 21 Thus saith the Lord: Bow down your shoulder, and your neck, and serve the king of Babylon: and you shall remain in the land which I have given to your fathers. +Baruch Bar 30 2 22 But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to serve the king of Babylon: I will cause you to depart out of the cities of Juda, and from without Jerusalem. +Baruch Bar 30 2 23 And I will take away from you the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, and all the land shall be without any footstep of inhabitants. +Baruch Bar 30 2 24 And they hearkened not to thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: and thou hast made good thy words, which thou spokest by the hands of thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers should be removed out of their place: +Baruch Bar 30 2 25 And behold they are cast out to the heat of the sun, and to the frost of the night: and they have died in grievous pains, by famine, and by the sword, and in banishment. +Baruch Bar 30 2 26 And thou hast made the temple, in which thy name was called upon, as it is at this day, for the iniquity of the house of Israel, and the house of Juda. +Baruch Bar 30 2 27 And thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our God, according to all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine: +Baruch Bar 30 2 28 As thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, in the day when thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel, +Baruch Bar 30 2 29 Saying: If you will not hear my voice, this great multitude shall be turned into a very small number among the nations, where I will scatter them: +Baruch Bar 30 2 30 For I know that the people will not hear me, for they are a people of a stiff neck: but they shall turn to their heart in the land of their captivity: +Baruch Bar 30 2 31 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and they shall understand: and ears, and they shall hear. +Baruch Bar 30 2 32 And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and shall be mindful of my name. +Baruch Bar 30 2 33 And they shall turn away themselves from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, that sinned against me. +Baruch Bar 30 2 34 And I will bring them back again into the land which I promised with an oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be masters thereof: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished. +Baruch Bar 30 2 35 And I will make with them another covenant that shall be everlasting, to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more remove my people, the children of Israel, out of the land that I have given them. +Baruch Bar 30 3 1 And now, O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, the soul in anguish, and the troubled spirit crieth to thee: +Baruch Bar 30 3 2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for thou art a merciful God, and have pity on us: for we have sinned before thee. +Baruch Bar 30 3 3 For thou remainest for ever, and shall we perish everlastingly? +Baruch Bar 30 3 4 O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before thee, and have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, wherefore evils have cleaved fast to us. +Baruch Bar 30 3 5 Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but think upon thy hand, and upon thy name at this time: +Baruch Bar 30 3 6 For thou art the Lord our God, and we will praise thee, O Lord: +Baruch Bar 30 3 7 Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned before thee. +Baruch Bar 30 3 8 And behold we are at this day in our captivity, whereby thou hast scattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord our God. +Baruch Bar 30 3 9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear, that thou mayst learn wisdom. +Baruch Bar 30 3 10 How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thy enemies' land? +Baruch Bar 30 3 11 Thou art grown old in a strange country, thou art defiled with the dead: thou art counted with them that go down into hell. +Baruch Bar 30 3 12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom: +Baruch Bar 30 3 13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou hadst surely dwelt in peace for ever. +Baruch Bar 30 3 14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding: that thou mayst know also where is length of days and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace. +Baruch Bar 30 3 15 Who hath found out her place? and who hath gone in to her treasures? +Baruch Bar 30 3 16 Where are the princes of the nations, and they that rule over the beasts that are upon the earth? +Baruch Bar 30 3 17 That take their diversion with the birds of the air. +Baruch Bar 30 3 18 That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no end of their getting? who work in silver and are solicitous, and their works are unsearchable. +Baruch Bar 30 3 19 They are cut off, and are gone down to hell, and others are risen up in their place. +Baruch Bar 30 3 20 Young men have seen the light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge they have not known, +Baruch Bar 30 3 21 Nor have they understood the paths thereof, neither have their children received it, it is far from their face. +Baruch Bar 30 3 22 It hath not been heard of in the land of Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman. +Baruch Bar 30 3 23 The children of Agar also, that search after the wisdom that is of the earth, the merchants of Merrha, and of Theman, and the tellers of fables, and searchers of prudence and understanding: but the way of wisdom they have not known, neither have they remembered her paths. +Baruch Bar 30 3 24 O Israel, how great is the house of God, and how vast is the place of his possession! +Baruch Bar 30 3 25 It is great, and hath no end: it is high and immense. +Baruch Bar 30 3 26 There were the giants, those renowned men that were from the beginning, of great stature, expert in war. +Baruch Bar 30 3 27 The Lord chose not them, neither did they find the way of knowledge: therefore did they perish. +Baruch Bar 30 3 28 And because they had not wisdom, they perished through their folly. +Baruch Bar 30 3 29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? +Baruch Bar 30 3 30 Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and brought her preferably to chosen gold? +Baruch Bar 30 3 31 There is none that is able to know her ways, nor that can search out her paths: +Baruch Bar 30 3 32 But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore, and filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts: +Baruch Bar 30 3 33 He that sendeth forth the light, and it goeth: and hath called it, and it obeyeth him with trembling. +Baruch Bar 30 3 34 And the stars have given light in their watches, and rejoiced: +Baruch Bar 30 3 35 They were called, and they said: Here we are: and with cheerfulness they have shined forth to him that made them. +Baruch Bar 30 3 36 This is our God, and there shall no other be accounted of in comparison of him. +Baruch Bar 30 3 37 He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved. +Baruch Bar 30 3 38 Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men. +Baruch Bar 30 4 1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death. +Baruch Bar 30 4 2 Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof. +Baruch Bar 30 4 3 Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation. +Baruch Bar 30 4 4 We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us. +Baruch Bar 30 4 5 Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel: +Baruch Bar 30 4 6 You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries. +Baruch Bar 30 4 7 For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God. +Baruch Bar 30 4 8 For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you. +Baruch Bar 30 4 9 For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: +Baruch Bar 30 4 10 For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them. +Baruch Bar 30 4 11 For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning. +Baruch Bar 30 4 12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God. +Baruch Bar 30 4 13 And they have not known his justices, nor walked by the ways of God's commandments, neither have they entered by the paths of his truth and justice. +Baruch Bar 30 4 14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them. +Baruch Bar 30 4 15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from afar, a wicked nation, and of a strange tongue: +Baruch Bar 30 4 16 Who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children, and have carried away the beloved of the widow, and have left me all alone without children. +Baruch Bar 30 4 17 But as for me, what help can I give you? +Baruch Bar 30 4 18 But he that hath brought the evils upon you, he will deliver you out of the hands of your enemies. +Baruch Bar 30 4 19 Go your way, my children, go your way: for I am left alone. +Baruch Bar 30 4 20 I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days. +Baruch Bar 30 4 21 Be of good comfort, my children, cry to the Lord, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the princes your enemies. +Baruch Bar 30 4 22 For my hope is in the Eternal that he will save you: and joy is come upon me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall come to you from our everlasting Saviour. +Baruch Bar 30 4 23 For I sent you forth with mourning and weeping: but the Lord will bring you back to me with joy and gladness for ever. +Baruch Bar 30 4 24 For as the neighbours of Sion have now seen your captivity from God: so shall they also shortly see your salvation from God, which shall come upon you with great honour, and everlasting glory. +Baruch Bar 30 4 25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you: for thy enemy hath persecuted thee, but thou shalt quickly see his destruction: and thou shalt get up upon his neck. +Baruch Bar 30 4 26 My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were taken away as a flock made a prey by the enemies. +Baruch Bar 30 4 27 Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him that hath led you away. +Baruch Bar 30 4 28 For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return again you shall seek him ten times as much. +Baruch Bar 30 4 29 For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation. +Baruch Bar 30 4 30 Be of good heart, O Jerusalem: for he exhorteth thee, that named thee. +Baruch Bar 30 4 31 The wicked that have afflicted thee, shall perish: and they that have rejoiced at thy ruin, shall be punished. +Baruch Bar 30 4 32 The cities which thy children have served, shall be punished: and she that received thy sons. +Baruch Bar 30 4 33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation. +Baruch Bar 30 4 34 And the joy of her multitude shall be cut off: and her gladness shall be turned to mourning. +Baruch Bar 30 4 35 For fire shall come upon her from the Eternal, long to endure, and she shall be inhabited by devils for a great time. +Baruch Bar 30 4 36 Look about thee, O Jerusalem, towards the east, and behold the joy that cometh to thee from God. +Baruch Bar 30 4 37 For behold thy children come, whom thou sentest away scattered, they come gathered together from the east even to the west, at the word of the Holy One rejoicing for the honour of God. +Baruch Bar 30 5 1 Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of thy mourning, and affliction: and put on the beauty, and honour of that everlasting glory which thou hast from God. +Baruch Bar 30 5 2 God will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will set a crown on thy head of everlasting honour. +Baruch Bar 30 5 3 For God will shew his brightness in thee, to every one under heaven. +Baruch Bar 30 5 4 For thy name shall be named to thee by God for ever: the peace of justice, and honour of piety. +Baruch Bar 30 5 5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high: and look about towards the east, and behold thy children gathered together from the rising to the setting sun, by the word of the Holy One rejoicing in the remembrance of God. +Baruch Bar 30 5 6 For they went out from thee on foot, led by the enemies: but the Lord will bring them to thee exalted with honour as children of the kingdom. +Baruch Bar 30 5 7 For God hath appointed to bring down every high mountain, and the everlasting rocks, and to fill up the valleys to make them even with the ground: that Israel may walk diligently to the honour of God. +Baruch Bar 30 5 8 Moreover the woods, and every sweetsmelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the commandment of God. +Baruch Bar 30 5 9 For God will bring Israel with joy in the light of his majesty, with mercy, and justice, that cometh from him. +Baruch Bar 30 6 1 For the sins that you have committed before God, you shall be carried away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon. +Baruch Bar 30 6 2 And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years, and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will bring you away from thence with peace. +Baruch Bar 30 6 3 But now, you shall see in Babylon gods of gold, and of silver, and of stone, and of wood borne upon shoulders, causing fear to the Gentiles. +Baruch Bar 30 6 4 Beware therefore that you imitate not the doings of others, and be afraid, and the fear of them should seize upon you. +Baruch Bar 30 6 5 But when you see the multitude behind, and before, adoring them, say you in your hearts: Thou oughtest to be adored, O Lord. +Baruch Bar 30 6 6 For my angel is with you: And I myself will demand an account of your souls. +Baruch Bar 30 6 7 They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless. +Baruch Bar 30 6 8 And as if it were for a maiden that loveth to go gay: so do they take gold and make them up. +Baruch Bar 30 6 9 Their gods have golden crowns upon their heads: whereof the priests secretly convey away from them gold, and silver, and bestow it on themselves. +Baruch Bar 30 6 10 Yea and they give thereof to prostitutes, and they dress out harlots: and again when they receive it of the harlots, they adorn their gods. +Baruch Bar 30 6 11 And these gods cannot defend themselves from the rust, and the moth. +Baruch Bar 30 6 12 But when they have covered them with a purple garment, they wipe their face because of the dust of the house, which is very much among them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 13 This holdeth a sceptre as a man, as a judge of the country, but cannot put to death one that offendeth him. +Baruch Bar 30 6 14 And this hath in his hand a sword, or an axe, but cannot save himself from war, or from robbers, whereby be it known to you, that they are not gods. +Baruch Bar 30 6 15 Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel that a man uses when it is broken becometh useless, even so are their gods: +Baruch Bar 30 6 16 When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by the feet of them that go in. +Baruch Bar 30 6 17 And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath offended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by thieves. +Baruch Bar 30 6 18 They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they cannot see one: but they are like beams in the house. +Baruch Bar 30 6 19 And they say that the creeping things which are of the earth, gnaw their hearts, while they eat them and their garments, and they feel it not. +Baruch Bar 30 6 20 Their faces are black with the smoke that is made in the house. +Baruch Bar 30 6 21 Owls, and swallows, and other birds fly upon their bodies, and upon their heads, and cats in like manner. +Baruch Bar 30 6 22 Whereby you may know that they are no gods. Therefore fear them not. +Baruch Bar 30 6 23 The gold also which they have, is for shew, but except a man wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten, did they feel it. +Baruch Bar 30 6 24 Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 25 And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders, declaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that worship them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 26 Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by themselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead. +Baruch Bar 30 6 27 The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give nothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor. +Baruch Bar 30 6 28 The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not. +Baruch Bar 30 6 29 For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings before the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood: +Baruch Bar 30 6 30 And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads. +Baruch Bar 30 6 31 And they roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead. +Baruch Bar 30 6 32 The priests take away their garments, and clothe their wives and their children. +Baruch Bar 30 6 33 And whether it be evil that one doth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: neither can they set up a king, nor put him down: +Baruch Bar 30 6 34 In like manner they can neither give riches, nor requite evil. If a man make a vow to them, and perform it not: they cannot require it. +Baruch Bar 30 6 35 They cannot deliver a man from death, nor save the weak from the mighty. +Baruch Bar 30 6 36 They cannot restore the blind man to his sight: nor deliver a man from distress. +Baruch Bar 30 6 38 Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that worship them shall be confounded. +Baruch Bar 30 6 39 How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods? +Baruch Bar 30 6 40 Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak. +Baruch Bar 30 6 41 As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense. +Baruch Bar 30 6 42 The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. +Baruch Bar 30 6 43 And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. +Baruch Bar 30 6 44 But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? +Baruch Bar 30 6 45 And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what the priests will have them to be. +Baruch Bar 30 6 46 For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long continuance. Can those things then that are made by them, be gods? +Baruch Bar 30 6 47 But they have left false things and reproach to them that come after. +Baruch Bar 30 6 48 For when war cometh upon them , or evils: the priests consult with themselves, where they may hide themselves with them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 49 How then can they be thought to be gods, that can neither deliver themselves from war, nor save themselves from evils? +Baruch Bar 30 6 50 For seeing they are but of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false things, by all nations, and kings: and it shall be manifest that they are no gods, but the work of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 51 Whence, therefore, is it known that they are not gods, but the work of men's hands, and no work of God is in them? +Baruch Bar 30 6 52 They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men. +Baruch Bar 30 6 53 They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression: because they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth. +Baruch Bar 30 6 54 For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood, and of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be saved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams. +Baruch Bar 30 6 55 And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that they are gods? +Baruch Bar 30 6 56 Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them, +Baruch Bar 30 6 57 Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves. +Baruch Bar 30 6 58 Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods. +Baruch Bar 30 6 59 The sun, and the moon, and the stars being bright, and sent forth for profitable uses, are obedient. +Baruch Bar 30 6 60 In like manner the lightning, when it breaketh forth, is easy to be seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country. +Baruch Bar 30 6 61 And the clouds, when God commandeth them to go over the whole world, do that which is commanded them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 62 The fire also being sent from above to consume mountains, and woods, doth as it is commanded. But these neither in shew, nor in power, are alike to any one of them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 63 Wherefore it is neither to be thought, nor to be said, that they are gods: since they are neither able to judge causes, nor to do any good to men. +Baruch Bar 30 6 64 Knowing, therefore, that they are not gods, fear them not. +Baruch Bar 30 6 65 For neither can they curse kings, nor bless them. +Baruch Bar 30 6 66 Neither do they shew signs in the heaven to the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon. +Baruch Bar 30 6 67 Beasts are better than they, which can fly under a covert, and help themselves. +Baruch Bar 30 6 68 Therefore there is no manner of appearance that they are gods: so fear them not. +Baruch Bar 30 6 69 For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over with gold. +Baruch Bar 30 6 70 They are no better than a white thorn in a garden, upon which every bird sitteth. In like manner also their gods of wood, and laid over with gold, and with silver, are like to a dead body cast forth in the dark. +Baruch Bar 30 6 71 By the purple also and the scarlet which are motheaten upon them, you shall know that they are not gods. And they themselves at last are consumed, and shall be a reproach in the country. +Baruch Bar 30 6 72 Better, therefore, is the just man that hath no idols: for he shall be far from reproach. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 1 Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the son of Philip the Macedonian, who first reigned in Greece, coming out of the land of Cethim, had overthrown Darius, king of the Persians and Medes: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 2 He fought many battles, and took the strong holds of all, and slew the kings of the earth: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 3 And he went through even to the ends of the earth: and took the spoils of many nations: and the earth was quiet before him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 4 And he gathered a power, and a very strong army: and his heart was exalted and lifted up: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 5 And he subdued countries of nations, and princes; and they became tributaries to him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 6 And after these things, he fell down upon his bed, and knew that he should die. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 7 And he called his servants, the nobles that were brought up with him from his youth: and he divided his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 8 And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 9 And his servants made themselves kings, every one in his place: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 10 And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and their sons after them, many years; and evils were multiplied in the earth. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 11 And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 12 In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 13 And the word seemed good in their eyes. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 14 And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 15 And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 16 And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 17 And the kingdom was established before Antiochus, and he had a mind to reign over the land of Egypt, that he might reign over two kingdoms. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 18 And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great number of ships: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 19 And he made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt; but Ptolemee was afraid at his presence and fled, and many were wounded unto death. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 20 And he took the strong cities in the land of Egypt: and he took the spoils of the land of Egypt. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 21 And after Antiochus had ravaged Egypt, in the hundred and forty-third year, he returned and went up against Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 22 And he went up to Jerusalem, with a great multitude. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 23 And he proudly entered into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof, and the table of proposition, and the pouring vessels, and the vials, and the little mortars of gold, and the veil, and the crowns, and the golden ornament that was before the temple: and he broke them all in pieces. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 24 And he took the silver and gold, and the precious vessels: and he took the hidden treasures, which he found: and when he had taken all away, he departed into his own country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 25 And he made a great slaughter of men, and spoke very proudly. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 26 And there was great mourning in Israel, and in every place where they were: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 27 And the princes, and the ancients mourned, and the virgins and the young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 28 Every bridegroom took up lamentation: and the bride that sat in the marriage bed, mourned: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 29 And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 30 And after two full years, the king sent the chief collector of his tributes to the cities of Juda, and he came to Jerusalem with a great multitude. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 31 And he spoke to them peaceable words in deceit; and they believed him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 32 And he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it with a great slaughter, and destroyed much people in Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 33 And he took the spoils of the city, and burnt it with fire, and threw down the houses thereof, and the walls thereof round about: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 34 And they took the women captive, and the children, and the cattle they possessed. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 35 And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with strong towers, and made it a fortress for them: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 36 And they placed there a sinful nation, wicked men, and they fortified themselves therein: and they stored up armour; and victuals, and gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem; +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 37 And laid them up there: and they became a great snare. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 38 And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 39 And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and defiled the holy place. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 40 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away by reason of them and the city was made the habitation of strangers, and she became a stranger to her own seed, and her children forsook her. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 41 Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were brought to nothing. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 42 Her dishonour was increased according to her glory, and her excellency was turned into mourning. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 43 And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people should be one: and every one should leave his own law. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 44 And all nations consented, according to the word of king Antiochus. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 45 And many of Israel consented to his service, and they sacrificed to idols, and profaned the sabbath. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 46 And the king sent letters by the hands of messengers to Jerusalem, and to all the cities of Juda; that they should follow the law of the nations of the earth. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 47 And should forbid holocausts and sacrifices, and atonements to be made in the temple of God. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 48 And should prohibit the sabbath, and the festival days to be celebrated. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 49 And he commanded the holy places to be profaned, and the holy people of Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 50 And he commanded altars to be built, and temples, and idols, and swine's flesh to be immolated, and unclean beasts, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 51 And that they should leave their children uncircumcised, and let their souls be defiled with all uncleannesses, and abominations, to the end that they should forget the law, and should change all the justifications of God. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 52 And that whosoever would not do according to the word of king Antiochus, should be put to death. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 53 According to all these words he wrote to his whole kingdom: and he appointed rulers over the people that should force them to do these things. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 54 And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 55 Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 56 And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 57 On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 58 And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 59 And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 60 And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord were found, and whosoever observed the law of the Lord, they put to death, according to the edict of the king. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 61 Thus by their power did they deal with the people of Israel, that were found in the cities month after month. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 62 And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed upon the altar of the idol that was over against the altar of God. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 63 Now the women that circumcised their children were slain according to the commandment of king Antiochus, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 64 And they hanged the children about their neck in all their houses: and those that had circumcised them, they put to death. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 65 And many of the people of Israel determined with themselves, that they would not eat unclean things: and they chose rather to die, than to be defiled with unclean meats: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 66 And they would not break the holy law of God and they were put to death: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 1 67 And there was very great wrath upon the people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 1 In those days arose Mathathias, the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and he abode in the mountain of Modin: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 2 And he had five sons: John, who was surnamed Gaddis: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 3 And Simon, who was surnamed Thasi; +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 4 And Judas, who was called Machabeus; +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 5 And Eleazar, who was surnamed Abaron; and Jonathan, who was surnamed Apphus. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 6 These saw the evils that were done in the people of Juda, and in Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 7 And Mathathias said: Woe is me, wherefore was I born to see the ruin of my people, and the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it is given into the hands of the enemies? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 8 The holy places are come into the hands of strangers her temple is become as a man without honour. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 9 The vessels of her glory are carried away captive; her old men are murdered in the streets, and her young men are fallen by the sword of the enemies. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 10 What nation hath not inherited her kingdom, and gotten of her spoils? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 11 All her ornaments are taken away. She that was free is made a slave. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 12 And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty, and our glory is laid waste, and the Gentiles have defiled them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 13 To what end then should we live any longer? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 14 And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered themselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 15 And they that were sent from king Antiochus, came thither, to compel them that were fled into the city of Modin, to sacrifice, and to burn incense, and to depart from the law of God. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 16 And many of the people of Israel consented and came to them: but Mathathias and his sons stood firm. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 17 And they that were sent from Antiochus, answering, said to Mathathias: Thou art a ruler, and an honourable, and great man in this city, and adorned with sons, and brethren. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 18 Therefore, come thou first, and obey the king's commandment, as all nations have done, and the men of Juda, and they that remain in Jerusalem: and thou, and thy sons shall be in the number of the king's friends, and enriched with gold, and silver, and many presents. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 19 Then Mathathias answered, and said with a loud voice: Although all nations obey king Antiochus, so as to depart every man from the service of the law of his fathers, and consent to his commandments: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 20 I and my sons, and my brethren will obey the law of our fathers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 21 God be merciful unto us: it is not profitable for us to forsake the law, and the justices of God: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 22 We will not hearken to the words of king Antiochus, neither will we sacrifice and transgress the commandments of our law, to go another way. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 23 Now as he left off speaking these words, there came a certain Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar in the city of Modin, according to the king's commandment. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 24 And Mathathias saw, and was grieved, and his reins trembled, and his wrath was kindled according to the judgment of the law, and running upon him he slew him upon the altar: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 25 Moreover the man whom king Antiochus had sent, who compelled them to sacrifice, he slew at the same time, and pulled down the altar, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 26 And shewed zeal for the law, as Phinees did by Zamri, the son of Salomi. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 27 And Mathathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying: Every one that hath zeal for the law, and maintaineth the testament, let him follow me. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 28 So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that they had in the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 29 Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into the desert +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 30 And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives, and their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 31 And it was told to the king's men, and to the army that was in Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king's commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the wilderness, and that many were gone after them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 32 And forthwith they went out towards them, and made war against them on the sabbath day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 33 And they said to them: Do you still resist? come forth, and do according to the edict of king Antiochus, and you shall live. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 34 And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 35 And they made haste to give them battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 36 But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 37 Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 38 So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 39 And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 40 And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 41 And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up against us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and we will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret places. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 42 Then was assembled to them the congregation of the Assideans, the stoutest of Israel, every one that had a good will for the law. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 43 And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them, and were a support to them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 44 And they gathered an army, and slew the sinners in their wrath, and the wicked men in their indignation: and the rest fled to the nations for safety. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 45 And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw down the altars: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 46 And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 47 And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work prospered in their hands: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 48 And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 49 Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 50 Now, therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 51 And call to remembrance the works of the fathers, which they have done in their generations: and you shall receive great glory, and an everlasting name. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 52 Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reputed to him unto justice? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 53 Joseph, in the time of his distress, kept the commandment, and he was made lord of Egypt. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 54 Phinees, our father, by being fervent in the zeal of God, received the covenant of an everlasting priesthood. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 55 Jesus, whilst he fulfilled the word, was made ruler in Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 56 Caleb, for bearing witness before the congregation, received an inheritance. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 57 David, by his mercy, obtained the throne of an everlasting kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 58 Elias, while he is full of zeal for the law, was taken up into heaven. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 59 Ananias and Azarias and Misael, by believing, were delivered out of the flame. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 60 Daniel, in his innocency, was delivered out of the mouth of the lions. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 61 And thus consider, through all generations: that none that trust in him, fail in strength. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 62 And fear not the words of a sinful man, for his glory is dung and worms: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 63 Today he is lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his earth and his thought is come to nothing. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 64 You, therefore, my sons, take courage, and behave manfully in the law: for by it you shall be glorious. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 65 And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel: give ear to him always, and he shall be a father to you. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 66 And Judas Machabeus, who is valiant and strong from his youth up, let him be the leader of your army, and he shall manage the war of the people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 67 And you shall take to you all that observe the law: and revenge ye the wrong of your people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 68 Render to the Gentiles their reward, and take heed to the precepts of the law. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 69 And he blessed them, and was joined to his fathers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 2 70 And he died in the hundred and forty-sixth year: and he was buried by his sons in the sepulchres of his fathers, in Modin, and all Israel mourned for him with great mourning. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 1 Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 2 And all his brethren helped him, and all they that had joined themselves to his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 3 And he got his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike armour about him in battles, and protected the camp with his sword. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 4 In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 5 And he pursued the wicked and sought them out, and them that troubled his people he burnt with fire: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 6 And his enemies were driven away for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled: and salvation prospered in his hand. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 7 And he grieved many kings, and made Jacob glad with his works, and his memory is blessed for ever. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 8 And he went through the cities of Juda, and destroyed the wicked out of them, and turned away wrath from Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 9 And he was renowned even to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered them that were perishing. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 10 And Apollonius gathered together the Gentiles, and a numerous and great army from Samaria, to make war against Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 11 And Judas understood it, and went forth to meet him: and he overthrew him, and killed him: and many fell down slain, and the rest fled away. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 12 And he took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and fought with it all his lifetime. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 13 And Seron, captain of the army of Syria, heard that Judas had assembled a company of the faithful, and a congregation with him, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 14 And he said I will get me a name, and will be glorified in the kingdom, and will overthrow Judas, and those that are with him, that have despised the edict of the king. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 15 And he made himself ready; and the host of the wicked went up with him, strong succours, to be revenged of the children of Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 16 And they approached even as far as Bethoron: and Judas went forth to meet him, with a small company. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 17 But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas: How shall we, being few, be able to fight against so great a multitude, and so strong, and we are ready to faint with fasting today? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 18 And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 19 For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but strength cometh from heaven. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 20 They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 21 But we will fight for our lives, and our laws: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 22 And the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face, but as for you, fear them not +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 23 And as soon as he had made an end of speaking, he rushed suddenly upon them: and Seron, and his host were overthrown before him: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 24 And he pursued him by the descent of Bethoron, even to the plain, and there fell of them eight hundred men, and the rest fled into the land of the Philistines. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 25 And the fear of Judas, and of his brethren, and the dread of them, fell upon all the nations round about them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 26 And his fame came to the king, and all nations told of the battles of Judas. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 27 Now when king Antiochus heard these words, he was angry in his mind: and he sent, and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an exceeding strong army. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 28 And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a year: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 29 And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension, and the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the laws of old times: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 30 And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough for charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he had abounded more than the kings that had been before him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 31 And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into Persia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much money. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 32 And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal to oversee the affairs of the kingdom from the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 33 And to bring up his son, Antiochus, till he came again. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 34 And he delivered to him half the army, and the elephants: and he gave him charge concerning all that he would have done, and concerning the inhabitants of Judea, and Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 35 And that he should send an army against them to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away the memory of them from that place. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 36 And that he should settle strangers, to dwell in all their coasts, and divide their land by lot. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 37 So the king took the half of the army that remained, and went forth from Antioch, the chief city of his kingdom, in the hundred and forty-seventh year: and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the higher countries. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 38 Then Lysias chose Ptolemee, the son of Dorymenus, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 39 And he sent with them forty thousand men, and seven thousand horsemen: to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, according to the king's orders. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 40 So they went forth with all their power, and came, and pitched near Emmaus, in the plain country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 41 And the merchants of the countries heard the fame of them: and they took silver and gold in abundance, and servants: and they came into the camp, to buy the children of Israel for slaves: and there were joined to them the forces of Syria, and of the land of the strangers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 42 And Judas, and his brethren, saw that evils were multiplied, and that the armies approached to their borders: and they knew the orders the king had given to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 43 And they said, every man to his neighbour: Let us raise up the low condition of our people, and let us fight for our people, and our sanctuary. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 44 And the assembly was gathered, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 45 Now Jerusalem was not inhabited, but was like a desert: there was none of her children that went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden down: and the children of strangers were in the castle, there was the habitation of the Gentiles: and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and harp ceased there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 46 And they assembled together, and came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 47 And they fasted that day, and put on haircloth, and put ashes upon their heads: and they rent their garments: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 48 And they laid open the books of the law, in which the Gentiles searched for the likeness of their idols: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 49 And they brought the priestly ornaments, and the first fruits and tithes, and stirred up the Nazarites that had fulfilled their days: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 50 And they cried with a loud voice toward heaven, saying: What shall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 51 For thy holies are trodden down, and are profaned, and thy priests are in mourning, and are brought low. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 52 And behold the nations are come together against us, to destroy us: thou knowest what they intend against us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 53 How shall we be able to stand before their face, unless thou, O God, help us? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 54 Then they sounded with trumpets, and cried out with a loud voice. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 55 And after this, Judas appointed captains over the people, over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 56 And he said to them that were building houses, or had betrothed wives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, that they should return every man to his house, according to the law. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 57 So they removed the camp, and pitched on the south side of Emmaus. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 58 And Judas said: Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be ready against the morning, that you may fight with these nations that are assembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 59 For it is better for us to die in battle, than to see the evils of our nation, and of the holies: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 3 60 Nevertheless, as it shall be the will of God in heaven, so be it done. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 1 Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best horsemen; and they removed out of the camp by night. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 2 That they might come upon the camp of the Jews and strike them suddenly: and the men that were of the castle were their guides. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 3 And Judas heard of it, and rose up, he and the valiant men, to attack the king's forces that were in Emmaus. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 4 For as yet the army was dispersed from the camp +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 5 And Gorgias came by night into the camp of Judas, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains: for he said: These men flee from us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 6 And when it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three thousand men only, who neither had armour nor swords: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 7 And they saw the camp of the Gentiles that it was strong, and the men in breastplates, and the horsemen round about them, and these were trained up to war. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 8 And Judas said to the men that were with him: Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 9 Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with a great army. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 10 And now let us cry to heaven, and the Lord will have mercy on us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and will destroy this army before our face this day: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 11 And all nations shall know that there is one that redeemeth and delivereth Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 12 And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming against them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 13 And they went out of the camp to battle, and they that were with Judas sounded the trumpet. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 14 And they joined battle: and the Gentiles were routed, and fled into the plain. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 15 But all the hindmost of them fell by the sword and they pursued them as far as Gezeron, and even to the plains of Idumea, and of Azotus, and of Jamnia: and there fell of them to the number of three thousand men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 16 And Judas returned again with his army that followed him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 17 And he said to the people: Be not greedy of the spoils; for there is war before us: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 18 And Gorgias and his army are near us in the mountain: but stand ye now against our enemies, and overthrow them, and you shall take the spoils afterwards with safety. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 19 And as Judas was speaking these words, behold part of them appeared, looking forth from the mountain. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 20 And Gorgias saw that his men were put to flight, and that they had set fire to the camp: for the smoke that was seen declared what was done. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 21 And when they had seen this, they were seized with great fear, seeing at the same time Judas and his army in the plain ready to fight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 22 So they all fled away into the land of the strangers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 23 And Judas returned to take the spoils of the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great riches. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 24 And returning home, they sung a hymn, and blessed God in heaven, because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 25 So Israel had a great deliverance that day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 26 And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all that had happened. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 27 And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 28 So the year following, Lysias gathered together threescore thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 29 And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them with ten thousand men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 30 And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said: Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 31 Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their host and their horsemen. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 32 Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them quake at their own destruction. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 33 Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all that know thy name praise thee with hymns. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 34 And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 35 And when Lysias saw that his men were put to flight, and how bold the Jews were, and that they were ready either to live, or to die manfully, he went to Antioch, and chose soldiers, that they might come again into Judea with greater numbers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 36 Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 37 And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount Sion. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 38 And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 39 And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 40 And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 41 Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 42 And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the law of God. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 43 And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that had been defiled into an unclean place. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 44 And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been profaned, what he should do with it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 45 And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so they threw it down. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 46 And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple, in a convenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer concerning them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 47 Then they took whole stones, according to the law and built a new altar, according to the former: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 48 And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within the temple: and they sanctified the temple and the courts. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 49 And they made new holy vessels, and brought in the candlestick, and the altar of incense, and the table, into the temple. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 50 And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 51 And they set the loaves upon the table, and hung up the veils, and finished all the works that they had begun to make. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 52 And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and forty-eighth year. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 53 And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, upon the new altar of holocausts which they had made. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 54 According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 55 And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that had prospered them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 56 And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 57 And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged doors upon them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 58 And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 59 And Judas, and his brethren, and all the church of Israel decreed, that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season from year to year for eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, with joy and gladness. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 60 They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down, as they did before. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 4 61 And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it, to secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against Idumea. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 1 Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were exceeding angry. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 2 And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 3 Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 4 And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in the way. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 5 And they were shut up by him in towers, and he set upon them, and devoted them to utter destruction, and burnt their towers with fire, and all that were in them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 6 Then he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, and Timotheus was their captain: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 7 And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited in their sight, and he smote them: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 8 And he took the city of Gazer and her towns, and returned into Judea. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 9 And the Gentiles that were in Galaad, assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them: and they fled into the fortress of Datheman. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 10 And they sent letters to Judas, and his brethren, saying: The heathens that are round about are gathered together against us to destroy us: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 11 And they are preparing to come, and to take the fortress into which we are fled: and Timotheus is the captain of their host. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 12 Now therefore come, and deliver us out of their hands, for many of us are slain. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 13 And all our brethren that were in the places of Tubin, are killed: and they have carried away their wives, and their children, captives, and taken their spoils, and they have slain there almost a thousand men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 14 And while they were yet reading these letters, behold there came other messengers out of Galilee with their garments rent, who related according to these words: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 15 Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, were assembled against them, and all Galilee is filled with strangers, in order to consume us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words, a great assembly met together to consider what they should do for their brethren that were in trouble, and were assaulted by them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 17 And Judas said to Simon, his brother: Choose thee men, and go, and deliver thy brethren in Galilee: and I, and my brother Jonathan, will go into the country of Galaad: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 18 And he left Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the people, with the remnant of the army in Judea, to keep it: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 19 And he commanded them, saying: Take ye the charge of this people; but make no war against the heathens, till we return. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 20 Now three thousand men were allotted to Simon, to go into Galilee: and eight thousand to Judas, to go into the land of Galaad. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 21 And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the heathens: and the heathens were discomfited before his face, and he pursued them even to the gate of Ptolemais. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 22 And there fell of the heathens almost three thousand men, and he took the spoils of them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 23 And he took with him those that were in Galilee and in Arbatis, with their wives, and children, and all that they had, and he brought them into Judea with great joy. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 24 And Judas Machabeus, and Jonathan, his brother, passed over the Jordan, and went three days' journey through the desert. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 25 And the Nabutheans met them, and received them in a peaceable manner, and told them all that happened to their brethren in the land of Galaad, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 26 And that many of them were shut up in Barasa, and in Bosor, and in Alima, and in Casphor, and in Mageth, and in Carnaim; all these strong and great cities. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 27 Yea, and that they were kept shut up in the rest of the cities of Galaad, and that they had appointed to bring their army on the morrow near to these cities, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 28 Then Judas and his army suddenly turned their march into the desert, to Bosor, and took the city: and he slew every male by the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt it with fire. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 29 And they removed from thence by night, and went till they came to the fortress. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 30 And it came to pass that early in the morning, when they lifted up their eyes, behold there were people without number, carrying ladders and engines to take the fortress, and assault them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 31 And Judas saw that the fight was begun, and the cry of the battle went up to heaven like a trumpet, and a great cry out of the city: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 32 And he said to his host: Fight ye today for your brethren. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 33 And he came with three companies behind them, and they sounded their trumpets, and cried out in prayer. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 34 And the host of Timotheus understood that it was Machabeus, and they fled away before his face and they made a great slaughter of them, and there fell of them in that day almost eight thousand men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 35 And Judas turned aside to Maspha, and assaulted, and took it, and he slew every male thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burnt it with fire. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 36 From thence he marched, and took Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor, and the rest of the cities of Galaad. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 37 But after this Timotheus gathered another army, and camped over against Raphon, beyond the torrent. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 38 And Judas sent men to view the army: and they brought him word, saying: All the nations, that are round about us, are assembled unto him an army exceeding great: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 39 And they have hired the Arabians to help them, and they have pitched their tents beyond the torrent, ready to come to fight against thee. And Judas went to meet them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 40 And Timotheus said to the captains of his army: When Judas and his army come near the torrent of water, if he pass over unto us first, we shall not be able to withstand him: for he will certainly prevail over us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 41 But if he be afraid to pass over, and camp on the other side of the river, we will pass over to them, and shall prevail against him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 42 Now when Judas came near the torrent of water, he set the scribes of the people by the torrent, and commanded them, saying: Suffer no man to stay behind: but let all come to the battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 43 And he passed over to them first, and all the people after him, and all the heathens were discomfited before them, and they threw away their weapons, and fled to the temple that was in Carnaim. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 44 And he took that city, and the temple he burnt with fire, with all things that were therein: and Carnaim was subdued, and could not stand against the face of Judas. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 45 And Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the land of Galaad, from the least even to the greatest, and their wives and children, and an army exceeding great, to come into the land of Juda. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 46 And they came as far as Ephron: now this was a great city, situate in the way, strongly fortified, and there was no means to turn from it on the right hand or on the left, but the way was through the midst of it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 47 And they that were in the city shut themselves in, and stopped up the gates with stones: and Judas sent to them with peaceable words, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 48 Saying: Let us pass through your land, to go into our own country, and no man shall hurt you; we will only pass through on foot. But they would not open to them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 49 Then Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the camp, that they should make an assault, every man in the place where he was. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 50 And the men of the army drew near, and he assaulted that city all the day, and all the night; and the city was delivered into his hands: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 51 And they slew every male with the edge of the sword, and he razed the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through all the city over them that were slain. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 52 Then they passed over the Jordan to the great plain that is over against Bethsan. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 53 And Judas gathered together the hindmost, and he exhorted the people, all the way through, till they came into the land of Juda. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 54 And they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, and offered holocausts, because not one of them was slain, till they had returned in peace. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 55 Now in the days that Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee, before Ptolemais, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 56 Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captain of the soldiers, heard of the good success, and the battles that were fought, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 57 And he said: Let us also get us a name, and let us go fight against the Gentiles that are round about us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 58 And he gave charge to them that were in his army, and they went towards Jamnia. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 59 And Gorgias and his men went out of the city, to give them battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 60 And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there fell on that day, of the people of Israel, about two thousand men, and there was a great overthrow of the people: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 61 Because they did not hearken to Judas and his brethren, thinking that they should do manfully. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 62 But they were not of the seed of those men by whom salvation was brought to Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 63 And the men of Juda were magnified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the nations where their name was heard. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 64 And the people assembled to them with joyful acclamations. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 65 Then Judas and his brethren went forth and attacked the children of Esau, in the land towards the south, and he took Chebron and her towns: and he burnt the walls thereof, and the towers all round it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 66 And he removed his camp to go into the land of the aliens, and he went through Samaria. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 67 In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do manfully they went out unadvisedly to fight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 5 68 And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land of the strangers, and he threw down their altars, and he burnt the statues of their gods with fire: and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned into the land of Juda. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 1 Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 2 And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 3 So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 4 And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 5 And whilst he was in Persia there came one that told him how the armies that were in the land of Juda were put to flight: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 6 And that Lysias went with a very great power, and was put to flight before the face of the Jews, and that they were grown strong by the armour, and power, and store of spoils which they had gotten out of the camps which they had destroyed: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 7 And that they had thrown down the abomination which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls as before, and Bethsura also, his city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 8 And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, that he was struck with fear, and exceedingly moved: and he laid himself down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not fallen out to him as he imagined. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 9 And he remained there many days: for great grief came more and more upon him, and he made account that he should die. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 10 And he called for all his friends, and said to them: Sleep is gone from my eyes, and I am fallen away, and my heart is cast down for anxiety: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 11 And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and into what floods of sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and beloved in my power! +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 12 But now I remember the evils that I did in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 13 I know, therefore, that for this cause these evils have found me: and behold I perish with great grief in a strange land. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 14 Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent over all his kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 15 And he gave him the crown, and his robe, and his ring, that he should go to Antiochus, his son, and should bring him up for the kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 16 So king Antiochus died there in the year one hundred and forty-nine. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 17 And Lysias understood that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus, his son, to reign, whom he had brought up young: and he called his name Eupator. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 18 Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 19 And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 20 And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 21 And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Israel joined themselves unto them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 22 And they went to the king, and said: How long dost thou delay to execute judgment, and to revenge our brethren? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 23 We determined to serve thy father, and to do according to his orders, and obey his edicts: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 24 And for this they of our nation are alienated from us, and have slain as many of us as they could find, and have spoiled our inheritances. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 25 Neither have they put forth their hand against us only, but also against all our borders. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 26 And behold they have approached this day to the castle of Jerusalem to take it, and they have fortified the strong hold of Bethsura: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 27 And unless thou speedily prevent them, they will do greater things than these, and thou shalt not be able to subdue them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 28 Now when the king heard this, he was angry: and he called together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and them that were over the horsemen. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 29 There came also to him from other realms, and from the islands of the sea, hired troops. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 30 And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants trained to battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 31 And they went through Idumea, and approached to Bethsura, and fought many days, and they made engines: but they sallied forth, and burnt them with fire, and fought manfully. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 32 And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over against the king's camp. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 33 And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 34 And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 35 And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 36 These before the time wheresoever the beast was they were there: and whithersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 37 And upon the beast, there were strong wooden towers which covered every one of them: and engines upon them, and upon every one thirty-two valiant men, who fought from above: and an Indian to rule the beast. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 38 And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that side, at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 39 Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold, and of brass, the mountains glittered therewith, and they shone like lamps of fire. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 40 And part of the king's army was distinguished by the high mountains, and the other part by the low places: and they marched on warily and orderly. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 41 And all the inhabitants of the land were moved at the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the armour, for the army was exceeding great and strong. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 42 And Judas and his army drew near for battle: and there fell of the king's army six hundred men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 43 And Eleazar, the son of Saura, saw one of the beasts harnessed with the king's harness: and it was higher than the other beasts; and it seemed to him that the king was on it: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 44 And he exposed himself to deliver his people, and to get himself an everlasting name. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 45 And he ran up to it boldly in the midst of the legion, killing on the right hand, and on the left, and they fell by him on this side and that side. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 46 And he went between the feet of the elephant, and put himself under it: and slew it, and it fell to the ground upon him, and he died there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 47 Then they seeing the strength of the king and the fierceness of his army, turned away from them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 48 But the king's army went up against them to Jerusalem: and the king's army pitched their tents against Judea and Mount Sion. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 49 And he made peace with them that were in Bethsura: and they came forth out of the city, because they had no victuals, being shut up there, for it was the year of rest to the land. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 50 And the king took Bethsura: and he placed there a garrison to keep it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 51 And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and he set up there battering slings, and engines, and instruments to cast fire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot arrows, and slings. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 52 And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 53 But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 54 And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own place. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 55 Now Lysias heard that Philip; whom king Antiochus while he lived had appointed to bring up his son, Antiochus, and to reign, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 56 Was returned from Persia, and Media, with the army that went with him and that he sought to take upon him the affairs of the kingdom: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 57 Wherefore he made haste to go, and say to the king and to the captains of the army: We decay daily, and our provision of victuals is small, and the place that we lay siege to is strong, and it lieth upon us to take order for the affairs of the kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 58 Now, therefore, let us come to an agreement with these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 59 And let us covenant with them, that they may live according to their own laws, as before. For because of our despising their laws, they have been provoked, and have done all these things. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 60 And the proposal was acceptable in the sight of the king, and of the princes: and he sent to them to make peace: and they accepted of it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 61 And the king and the princes swore to them: and they came out of the strong hold. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 62 Then the king entered into Mount Sion, and saw the strength of the place: and he quickly broke the oath that he had taken, and gave commandment to throw down the wall round about. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 6 63 And he departed in haste and returned to Antioch, where he found Philip master of the city: and he fought against him, and took the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 1 In the hundred and fifty-first year, Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, departed from the city of Rome, and came up with few men into a city of the sea coast, and reigned there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 2 And it came to pass as he entered into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to bring them unto him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 3 And when he knew it, he said: Let me not see their face. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 4 So the army slew them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 5 And there came to him the wicked and ungodly men of Israel: and Alcimus was at the head of them, who desired to be made high priest. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 6 And they accused the people to the king, saying: Judas and his brethren have destroyed all thy friends, and he hath driven us out of our land. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 7 Now, therefore, send some men whom thou trustest, and let him go, and see all the havoc he hath made amongst us, and in the king's lands: and let him punish all his friends and their helpers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 8 Then the king chose Bacchides, one of his friends, that ruled beyond the great river in the kingdom, and was faithful to the king: and he sent him, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 9 To see the havoc that Judas had made: and the wicked Alcimus he made high priest, and commanded him to take revenge upon the children of Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 10 And they arose, and came with a great army into the land of Juda: and they sent messengers, and spoke to Judas and his brethren with peaceable words, deceitfully. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 11 But they gave no heed to their words: for they saw that they were come with a great army. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 12 Then there assembled to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of the scribes, to require things that are just: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 13 And first the Assideans, that were among the children of Israel, and they sought peace of them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 14 For they said: One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come, he will not deceive us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 15 And he spoke to them peaceably: and he swore to them, saying: We will do you no harm, nor your friends. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 16 And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew them in one day, according to the word that is written: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 17 The flesh of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 18 Then fear and trembling fell upon all the people: for they said: There is no truth, nor justice among them: for they have broken the covenant, and the oath which they made. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 19 And Bacchides removed the camp from Jerusalem, and pitched in Bethzecha: and he sent, and took many of them that were fled away from him, and some of the people he killed, and threw them into a great pit. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 20 Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him troops to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 21 But Alcimus did what he could to maintain his chief priesthood. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 22 And they that disturbed the people resorted to him, and they got the land of Juda into their power, and did much hurt in Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 23 And Judas saw all the evils that Alcimus, and they that were with him, did to the children of Israel, much more than the Gentiles. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 24 And he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance upon the men that had revolted, and they ceased to go forth any more into the country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 25 And Alcimus saw that Judas and they that were with him, prevailed: and he knew that he could not stand against them, and he went back to the king, and accused them of many crimes. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 26 And the king sent Nicanor, one of his principal lords, who was a great enemy to Israel: and he commanded him to destroy the people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 27 And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great army, and he sent to Judas and to his brethren deceitfully, with friendly words, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 28 Saying: Let there be no fighting between me and you: I will come with a few men, to see your faces with peace. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 29 And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably: and the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by force. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 30 And the thing was known to Judas that he was come to him with deceit: and he was much afraid of him, and would not see his face any more. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 31 And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered: and he went out to fight against Judas, near Capharsalama. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 32 And there fell of Nicanor's army almost five thousand men, and they fled into the city of David. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 33 And after this Nicanor went up into mount Sion: and some of the priests and the people came out to salute him peaceably, and to shew him the holocausts that were offered for the king. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 34 But he mocked and despised them, and abused them: and he spoke proudly, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 35 And swore in anger, saying: Unless Judas and his army be delivered into my hands, as soon as ever I return in peace, I will burn this house. And he went out in a great rage. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 36 And the priests went in, and stood before the face of the altar and the temple: and weeping, they said: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 37 Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house for thy name to be called upon therein, that it might be a house of prayer and supplication for thy people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 38 Be avenged of this man, and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 39 Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem, and encamped near to Bethoron: and an army of Syria joined him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 40 But Judas pitched in Adarsa with three thousand men: and Judas prayed, and said: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 41 O Lord, when they that were sent by king Sennacherib blasphemed thee, an angel went out, and slew of them a hundred and eighty-five thousand: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 42 Even so destroy this army in our sight today and let the rest know that he hath spoken ill against thy sanctuary: and judge thou him according to his wickedness. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 43 And the armies joined battle on the thirteenth day of the month, Adar: and the army of Nicanor was defeated, and he himself was first slain in the battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 44 And when his army saw that Nicanor was slain they threw away their weapons, and fled: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 45 And they pursued after them one day's journey from Adazer, even till ye come to Gazara, and they sounded the trumpets after them with signals. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 46 And they went forth out of all the towns of Judea round about, and they pushed them with the horns, and they turned again to them, and they were all slain with the sword, and there was not left of them so much as one. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 47 And they took the spoils of them for a booty, and they cut off Nicanor's head, and his right hand, which he had proudly stretched out, and they brought it, and hung it up over against Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 48 And the people rejoiced exceedingly, and they spent that day with great joy. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 49 And he ordained that this day should be kept every year, being the thirteenth of the month of Adar +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 7 50 And the land of Juda was quiet for a short time. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 1 Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are powerful and strong, and willingly agree to all things that are requested of them: and that whosoever have come to them, they have made amity with them, and that they are mighty in power. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 2 And they heard of their battles, and their noble acts which they had done in Galatia, how they had conquered them, and brought them under tribute: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 3 And how great things they had done in the land of Spain, and that they had brought under their power the mines of silver and of gold that are there, and had gotten possession of all the place by their counsel and patience: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 4 And had conquered places that were very far off from them, and kings that came against them from the ends of the earth, and had overthrown them with great slaughter: and the rest pay them tribute every year. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 5 And that they had defeated in battle Philip and Perses the king of the Ceteans, and the rest that had borne arms against them, and had conquered them: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 6 And how Antiochus, the great king of Asia, who went to fight against them, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and chariots, and a very great army, was routed by them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 7 And how they took him alive, and appointed to him, that both he and they that should reign after him, should pay a great tribute, and that he should give hostages, and that which was agreed upon, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 8 And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the Lydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken from them, they gave to king Eumenes. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 9 And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy them: and they had knowledge thereof, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 10 And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and many of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their children captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land, and threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto this day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 11 And the other kingdoms, and islands, that at any time had resisted them, they had destroyed and brought under their power. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 12 But with their friends, and such as relied upon them, they kept amity, and had conquered kingdoms that were near, and that were far off: for all that heard their name, were afraid of them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 13 That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were greatly exalted. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 14 And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 15 And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the people, that they might do the things that were right: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 16 And that they committed their government to one man every year, to rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy nor jealousy amongst them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 17 So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John, the son of Jacob, and Jason, the son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 18 And that they might take off from them the yoke of the Grecians, for they saw that they oppressed the kingdom of Israel with servitude. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 19 And they went to Rome, a very long journey, and they entered into the senate house, and said: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 20 Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the people of the Jews, have sent us to you to make alliance and peace with you, and that we may be registered your confederates and friends. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 21 And the proposal was pleasing in their sight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 22 And this is the copy of the writing that they wrote back again, graven in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of the peace, and alliance. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 23 GOOD SUCCESS BE TO THE ROMANS, and to the people of the Jews by sea, and by land, for ever: and far be the sword and enemy from them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 24 But if there come first any war upon the Romans, or any of their confederates, in all their dominions: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 25 The nation of the Jews shall help them according as the time shall direct, with all their heart: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 26 Neither shall they give them, whilst they are fighting, or furnish them with wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the Romans: and they shall obey their orders, without taking any thing of them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 27 In like manner also if war shall come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as the time shall permit them: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 28 And there shall not be given to them that come to their aid, either wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the Romans: and they shall observe their orders without deceit. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 29 According to these articles did the Romans covenant with the people of the Jews. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 30 And, if after this, one party or the other shall have a mind to add to these articles, or take away any thing, they may do it at their pleasure: and whatsoever they shall add, or take away, shall be ratified. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 31 Moreover, concerning the evils that Demetrius, the king, hath done against them, we have written to him, saying: Why hast thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and allies, the Jews. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 8 32 If, therefore, they come again to us complaining of thee, we will do them justice, and will make war against thee by sea and land. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 1 In the mean time, when Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army were fallen in battle, he sent again Bacchides and Alcimus into Judea; and the right wing of his army with them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 2 And they took the road that leadeth to Galgal, and they camped in Masaloth, which is in Arabella: and they made themselves masters of it, and slew many people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 3 In the first month of the hundred and fifty-second year they brought the army to Jerusalem: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 4 And they arose and went to Berea, with twenty thousand men, and two thousand horsemen. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 5 Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa, and three thousand chosen men with him: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 6 And they saw the multitude of the army that they were many, and they were seized with great fear: and many withdrew themselves out of the camp, and there remained of them no more than eight hundred men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 7 And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and the battle pressed upon him, and his heart was cast down: because he had not time to gather them together, and he was discouraged. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 8 Then he said to them that remained: Let us arise, and go against our enemies, if we may be able to fight against them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 9 But they dissuaded him, saying: We shall not be able, but let us save our lives now, and return to our brethren, and then we will fight against them: for we are but few. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 10 Then Judas said: God forbid we should do this thing, and flee away from them: but if our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren, and let us not stain our glory. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 11 And the army removed out of the camp, and they stood over against them: and the horsemen were divided into two troops, and the slingers, and the archers, went before the army, and they that were in the front were all men of valour. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 12 And Bacchides was in the right wing, and the legion drew near on two sides, and they sounded the trumpets: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 13 And they also that were on Judas's side, even they also cried out, and the earth shook at the noise of the armies: and the battle was fought from morning even unto the evening. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 14 And Judas perceived that the stronger part of the army of Bacchides was on the right side, and all the stout of heart came together with him: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 15 And the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued them even to the mount Azotus. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 16 And they that were in the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they followed after Judas, and them that were with him, at their back: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 17 And the battle was hard fought, and there fell many wounded of the one side and of the other. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 18 And Judas was slain, and the rest fled away. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 19 And Jonathan and Simon took Judas, their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of their fathers, in the city of Modin. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 20 And all the people of Israel bewailed him with great lamentation, and they mourned for him many days. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 21 And said: How is the mighty man fallen, that saved the people of Israel! +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 22 But the rest of the words of the wars of Judas, and of the noble acts that he did, and of his greatness, are not written: for they were very many. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 23 And it came to pass, after the death of Judas, that the wicked began to put forth their heads in all the confines of Israel, and all the workers of iniquity rose up. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 24 In those days there was a very great famine, and they and all their country yielded to Bacchides. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 25 And Bacchides chose the wicked men, and made them lords of the country: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 26 And they sought out, and made diligent search after the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance of them, and abused them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 27 And there was a great tribulation in Israel, such as was not since the day, that there was no prophet seen in Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 28 And all the friends of Judas came together, and said to Jonathan: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 29 Since thy brother Judas died there is not a man like him to go forth against our enemies, Bacchides, and them that are the enemies of our nation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 30 Now, therefore, we have chosen thee this day to be our prince, and captain, in his stead, to fight our battles. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 31 So Jonathan took upon him the government at that time, and rose up in the place of Judas, his brother +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 32 And Bacchides had knowledge of it, and sought to kill him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 33 And Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, knew it, and all that were with them: and they fled into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by the water of the lake Asphar, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 34 And Bacchides understood it, and he came himself, with all his army, over the Jordan, on the sabbath day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 35 And Jonathan sent his brother, a captain of the people, to desire the Nabutheans his friends, that they would lend them their equipage, which was copious. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 36 And the children of Jambri came forth out of Madaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went away with them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 37 After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan, with great pomp. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 38 And they remembered the blood of John, their brother: and they went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 39 And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and many weapons. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 40 And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 41 And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the noise of their musical instruments into lamentation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 42 And they took revenge for the blood of their brother: and they returned to the bank of the Jordan. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to the bank of the Jordan, with a great power. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 44 And Jonathan said to his company: Let us arise, and fight against our enemies: for it is not now as yesterday, and the day before. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 45 For behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan on this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there is no place for us to turn aside. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 46 Now, therefore, cry ye to heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies. And they joined battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 47 And Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, but he turned away from him backwards. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 48 And Jonathan, and they that were with him, leapt into the Jordan, and swam over the Jordan to them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 49 And there fell of Bacchides' side that day a thousand men: and they returned to Jerusalem, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 50 And they built strong cities in Judea, the fortress that was in Jericho, and in Ammaus, and in Bethoron, and in Bethel, and Thamnata, and Phara, and Thopo, with high walls, and gates, and bars. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 51 And he placed garrisons in them, that they might wage war against Israel: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 52 And he fortified the city of Bethsura, and Gazara, and the castle, and set garrisons in them, and provisions of victuals: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 53 And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in the castle in Jerusalem in custody. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 54 Now in the year one hundred and fifty-three, the second month, Alcimus commanded the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to be thrown down, and the works of the prophets to be destroyed: and he began to destroy. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 55 At that time Alcimus was struck: and his works were hindered, and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak a word, nor give order concerning his house. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 56 And Alcimus died at that time in great torment. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 57 And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead: and he returned to the king, and the land was quiet for two years. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 58 And all the wicked held a council, saying: Behold Jonathan, and they that are with him, dwell at ease and without fear: now, therefore, let us bring Bacchides hither, and he shall take them all in one night. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 59 So they went, and gave him counsel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 60 And he arose to come with a great army: and he sent secretly letters to his adherents that were in Judea to seize upon Jonathan, and them that were with him: but they could not, for their design was known to them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 61 And he apprehended of the men of the country, that were the principal authors of the mischief, fifty men, and he slew them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 62 And Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him, retired into Bethbessen, which is in the desert: and he repaired the breaches thereof, and they fortified it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 63 And when Bacchides knew it, he gathered together all his multitude: and sent word to them that were of Judea. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 64 And he came, and camped above Bethbessen, and fought against it many days, and made engines. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 65 But Jonathan left his brother, Simon, in the city and went forth into the country, and came with a number of men, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 66 And struck Odares, and his brethren, and the children of Phaseron, in their tents, and he began to slay, and to increase in forces. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 67 But Simon, and they that were with him, sallied out of the city, and burnt the engines, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 68 And they fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them: and they afflicted him exceedingly, for his counsel, and his enterprise was in vain. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 69 And he was angry with the wicked men that had given him counsel to come into their country, and he slew many of them: and he purposed to return with the rest into their country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 70 And Jonathan had knowledge of it, and he sent ambassadors to him to make peace with him, and to restore to him the prisoners. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 71 And he accepted it willingly, and did according to his words, and swore that he would do him no harm all the days of his life. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 72 And he restored to him the prisoners which he before had taken out of the land of Juda: and he returned, and went away into his own country, and he came no more into their borders. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 9 73 So the sword ceased from Israel: and Jonathan dwelt in Machmas, and Jonathan began there to judge the people, and he destroyed the wicked out of Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 1 Now in the hundred and sixtieth year, Alexander, the son of Antiochus, surnamed the Illustrious, came up and took Ptolemais, and they received him, and he reigned there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 2 And king Demetrius heard of it, and gathered together an exceeding great army, and went forth against him to fight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 3 And Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan, with peaceable words, to magnify him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 4 For he said: Let us first make a peace with him, before he make one with Alexander against us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 5 For he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and against his brother, and against his nation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 6 And he gave him authority to gather together a army, and to make arms, and that he should be his confederate: and the hostages that were in the castle, he commanded to be delivered to him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 7 And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the hearing of all the people, and of them that were in the castle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 8 And they were struck with great fear, because they heard that the king had given him authority to gather together an army. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 9 And the hostages were delivered to Jonathan, and he restored them to their parents. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 10 And Jonathan dwelt in Jerusalem, and began to build, and to repair the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 11 And he ordered workmen to build the walls, and mount Sion round about with square stones for fortification: and so they did. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 12 Then the strangers that were in the strong holds, which Bacchides had built, fled away. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 13 And every man left his place, and departed into his own country: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 14 Only in Bethsura there remained some of them, that had forsaken the law, and the commandments of God: for this was a place of refuge for them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 15 And king Alexander heard of the promises that Demetrius had made Jonathan: and they told him of the battles, and the worthy acts that he and his brethren had done, and the labours that they had endured. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 16 And he said: Shall we find such another man? now, therefore, we will make him our friend and our confederate. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 17 So he wrote a letter, and sent it to him according to these words, saying: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 18 King Alexander to his brother, Jonathan, greetings. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 19 We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of great power, and fit to be our friend: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 20 Now therefore, we make thee this day high priest of thy nation, and that thou be called the king's friend, (and he sent him a purple robe, and a crown of gold) and that thou be of one mind with us in our affairs, and keep friendship with us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 21 Then Jonathan put on the holy vestment in the seventh month, in the year one hundred and threescore, at the feast day of the tabernacles: and he gathered together an army, and made a great number of arms. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 22 And Demetrius heard these words, and was exceeding sorry, and said: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 23 What is this that we have done, that Alexander hath prevented us to gain the friendship of the Jews to strengthen himself? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 24 I also will write to them words of request, and offer dignities, and gifts: that they may be with me to aid me. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 25 And he wrote to them in these words: King Demetrius to the nation of the Jews, greeting. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 26 Whereas you have kept covenant with us, and have continued in our friendship, and have not joined with our enemies, we have heard of it, and are glad. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 27 Wherefore now continue still to keep fidelity towards us, and we will reward you with good things, for what you have done in our behalf. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 28 And we will remit to you many charges, and will give you gifts. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 29 And now I free you, and all the Jews, from tributes, and I release you from the customs of salt, and remit the crowns, and the thirds of the seed: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 30 And the half of the fruit of trees, which is my share, I leave to you from this day forward, so that it shall not be taken of the land of Juda, and of the three cities that are added thereto out of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth, and for ever: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 31 And let Jerusalem be holy and free, with the borders thereof: and let the tenths, and tributes be for itself. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 32 I yield up also the power of the castle that is in Jerusalem, and I give it to the high priest, to place therein such men as he shall choose, to keep it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 33 And every soul of the Jews that hath been carried captive from the land of Juda in all my kingdom, I set at liberty freely, that all be discharged from tributes, even of their cattle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 34 And I will that all the feasts, and the sabbaths, and the new moons, and the days appointed, and three days before the solemn day, and three days after the solemn day, be all days of immunity and freedom, for all the Jews that are in my kingdom: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 35 And no man shall have power to do any thing against them, or to molest any of them, in any cause. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 36 And let there be enrolled in the king's army to the number of thirty thousand of the Jews: and allowance shall be made them, as is due to all the king's forces and certain of them shall be appointed to be in the fortresses of the great king: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 37 And some of them shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, that are of trust, and let the governors be taken from among themselves, and let them walk in their own laws, as the king hath commanded in the land of Juda. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 38 And the three cities that are added to Judea, out of the country of Samaria, let them be accounted with Judea: that they may be under one, and obey no other authority but that of the high priest: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 39 Ptolemais and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the holy places that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the holy things. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 40 And I give every year fifteen thousand sickles of silver out of the king's accounts, of what belongs to me: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 41 And all that is above, which they that were over the affairs the years before, had not paid, from this time they shall give it to the works of the house. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 42 Moreover, the five thousand sickles of silver, which they received from the account of the holy places, every year, shall also belong to the priests that execute the ministry. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 43 And whosoever shall flee into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and in all the borders thereof, being indebted to the king for any matter, let them be set at liberty, and all that they have in my kingdom, let them have it free. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 44 For the building also, or repairing the works of the holy places, the charges shall be given out of the king's revenues: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 45 For the building also of the walls of Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof round about, the charges shall be given out of the king's account, as also for the building of the walls in Judea. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 46 Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credit to them, nor received them because they remembered the great evil that he had done in Israel, for he had afflicted them exceedingly. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 47 And their inclinations were towards Alexander, because he had been the chief promoter of peace in their regard, and him they always helped. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 48 And king Alexander gathered together a great army, and moved his camp near to Demetrius. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 49 And the two kings joined battle, and the army of Demetrius fled away, and Alexander pursued after him, and pressed them close. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 50 And the battle was hard fought, till the sun went down: and Demetrius was slain that day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 51 And Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt, with words to this effect, saying: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 52 Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the throne of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius and possessed our country, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 53 And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 54 Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and give me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 55 And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 56 And now I will do to thee as thou hast written but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as thou hast said. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 57 So Ptolemee went out of Egypt, with Cleopatra his daughter, and he came to Ptolemais, in the hundred and sixty-second year. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 58 And king Alexander met him, and he gave him his daughter, Cleopatra: and he celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, after the manner of kings. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 59 And king Alexander wrote to Jonathan, that he should come and meet him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 60 And he went honourably to Ptolemais, and he met there the two kings, and he gave them much silver, and gold, and presents: and he found favour in their sight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 61 And some pestilent men of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him, to accuse him: and the king gave no heed to them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 62 And he commanded that Jonathan's garments should be taken off, and that he should be clothed with purple: and they did so. And the king made him sit by himself. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 63 And he said to his princes: Go out with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 64 So when his accusers saw his glory proclaimed, and him clothed with purple, they all fled away. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 65 And the king magnified him, and enrolled him amongst his chief friends, and made him governor, and partaker of his dominion. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 66 And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with peace and joy. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 67 In the year one hundred and sixty-five, Demetrius, the son of Demetrius, came from Crete into the land of his fathers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 68 And king Alexander heard of it, and was much troubled, and returned to Antioch. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 69 And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 70 Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 71 Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 72 Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 73 And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 74 Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Jerusalem, and Simon, his brother, met him to help him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 75 And they pitched their tents near Joppe, but they shut him out of the city: because a garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid siege to it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 76 And they that were in the city being affrighted, opened the gates to him: so Jonathan took Joppe. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 77 And Apollonius heard of it, and he took three thousand horsemen, and a great army. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 78 And he went to Azotus, as one that was making a journey, and immediately he went forth into the plain: because he had a great number of horsemen, and he trusted in them. And Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, and they joined battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 79 And Apollonius left privately in the camp a thousand horsemen behind them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 80 And Jonathan knew that there was an ambush behind him, and they surrounded his army, and cast darts at the people from morning till evening. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 81 But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them: and so their horses were fatigued. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 82 Then Simon drew forth his army, and attacked the legion: for the horsemen were wearied: and they were discomfited by him, and fled. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 83 And they that were scattered about the plain fled into Azotus, and went into Bethdagon, their idol's temple, there to save themselves. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 84 But Jonathan set fire to Azotus, and the cities that were round about it, and took the spoils of them and the temple of Dagon: and all them that were fled into it, he burnt with fire. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 85 So they that were slain by the sword, with them that were burnt, were almost eight thousand men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 86 And Jonathan, removed his army from thence and camped against Ascalon: and they went out of the city to meet him with great honour. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 87 And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with his people, having many spoils. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 88 And it came to pass, when Alexander, the king heard these words, that he honoured Jonathan yet more. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 10 89 And he sent him a buckle of gold, as the custom is, to be given to such as are of the royal blood. And he gave him Accaron, and all the borders thereof, in possession. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 1 And the king of Egypt gathered together an army, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships: and he sought to get the kingdom of Alexander by deceit, and join it to his own kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 2 And he went out into Syria with peaceable words and they opened to him the cities, and met him: for king Alexander had ordered them to go forth to meet him, because he was his father in law. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 3 Now when Ptolemee entered into the cities, he put garrisons of soldiers in every city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 4 And when he came near to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt with fire, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof, that were destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad, and the graves of them that were slain in the battle, which they had made near the way. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 5 And they told the king that Jonathan had done these things, to make him odious: but the king held his peace. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 6 And Jonathan came to meet the king at Joppe with glory, and they saluted one another, and they lodged there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 7 And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river, called Eleutherus: and he returned into Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 8 And king Ptolemee got the dominion of the cities by the sea side, even to Seleucia, and he devised evil designs against Alexander. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 9 And he sent ambassadors to Demetrius, saying: Come, let us make a league between us, and I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander hath, and thou shalt reign in the kingdom of thy father. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 10 For I repent that I have given him my daughter: for he hath sought to kill me. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 11 And he slandered him, because he coveted his kingdom, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 12 And he took away his daughter, and gave her to Demetrius, and alienated himself from Alexander, and his enmities were made manifest. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 13 And Ptolemee entered into Antioch, and set two crowns upon his head, that of Egypt, and that of Asia. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 14 Now king Alexander was in Cilicia at that time: because they that were in those places had rebelled. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 15 And when Alexander heard of it, he came to give him battle: and king Ptolemee brought forth his army, and met him with a strong power, and put him to flight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 16 And Alexander fled into Arabia, there to be protected: and king Ptolemee was exalted. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 17 And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander's head, and sent it to Ptolemee. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 18 And king Ptolemee died the third day after: and they that were in the strong holds were destroyed by them that were within the camp. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 19 And Demetrius reigned in the hundred and sixty-seventh year. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 20 In those days Jonathan gathered together them that were in Judea, to take the castle that was in Jerusalem: and they made many engines of war against it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 21 Then some wicked men that hated their own nation, went away to king Demetrius, and told him that Jonathan was besieging the castle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 22 And when he heard it, he was angry: and forthwith he came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan that he should not besiege the castle, but should come to him in haste, and speak to him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 23 But when Jonathan heard this, he bade them besiege it still: and he chose some of the ancients of Israel, and of the priests, and put himself in danger +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 24 And he took gold, and silver, and raiment, and many other presents, and went to the king to Ptolemais and he found favour in his sight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 25 And certain wicked men of his nation made complaints against him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 26 And the king treated him as his predecessors had done before: and he exalted him in the sight of all his friends. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 27 And he confirmed him in the high priesthood and all the honours he had before, and he made him the chief of his friends. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 28 And Jonathan requested of the king that he would make Judea free from tribute, and the three governments, and Samaria, and the confines thereof: and he promised him three hundred talents. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 29 And the king consented: and he wrote letters to Jonathan of all these things, to this effect. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 30 King Demetrius to his brother, Jonathan, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 31 We send you here a copy of the letter which we have written to Lasthenes, our parent, concerning you, that you might know it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 32 King Demetrius to Lasthenes, his parent, greetings. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 33 We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews, who are our friends, and keep the things that are just with us, for their good will which they bear towards us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 34 We have ratified, therefore, unto them all the borders of Judea, and the three cities, Apherema, Lydda, and Ramatha, which are added to Judea, out of Samaria, and all their confines, to be set apart to all them that sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the payments which the king received of them every year, and for the fruits of the land, and of the trees. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 35 And as for other things that belonged to us of the tithes, and of the tributes, from this time we discharge them of them: the saltpans also, and the crowns that were presented to us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 36 We give all to them, and nothing hereof shall be revoked from this time forth and for ever. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 37 Now, therefore, see that thou make a copy of these things, and let it be given to Jonathan, and set upon the holy mountain, in a conspicuous place. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 38 And king Demetrius, seeing that the land was quiet before him, and nothing resisted him, sent away all his forces, every man to his own place, except the foreign army, which he had drawn together from the islands of the nations: so all the troops of his fathers hated him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 39 Now there was one Tryphon who had been of Alexander's party before: who seeing that all the army murmured against Demetrius, went to Emalchuel, the Arabian, who brought up Antiochus, the son of Alexander: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 40 And he pressed him much to deliver him to him, that he might be king in his father's place: and he told him all that Demetrius had done, and how his soldiers hated him. And he remained there many days. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 41 And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, desiring that he would cast out them that were in the castle in Jerusalem, and those that were in the strong holds: because they fought against Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 42 And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying: I will not only do this for thee, and for thy people, but I will greatly honour thee, and thy nation, when opportunity shall serve. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 43 Now, therefore, thou shalt do well if thou send me men to help me: for all my army is gone from me. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 44 And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and they came to the king, and the king was very glad of their coming. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 45 And they that were of the city assembled themselves together, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have killed the king. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 46 And the king fled into the palace: and they of the city kept the passages of the city, and began to fight. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 47 And the king called the Jews to his assistance: and they came to him all at once, and they all dispersed themselves through the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 48 And they slew in that day a hundred thousand men, and they set fire to the city, and got many spoils that day, and delivered the king. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 49 And they that were of the city saw that the Jews had got the city as they would: and they were discouraged in their mind, and cried to the king, making supplication, and saying +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 50 Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us, and the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 51 And they threw down their arms, and made peace, and the Jews were glorified in the sight of the king, and in the sight of all that were in his realm, and were renowned throughout the kingdom, and returned to Jerusalem with many spoils. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 52 So king Demetrius sat in the throne of his kingdom: and the land was quiet before him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 53 And he falsified all whatsoever he had said, and alienated himself from Jonathan, and did not reward him according to the benefits he had received from him, but gave him great trouble. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 54 And after this Tryphon returned, and with him Antiochus, the young boy, who was made king, and put on the diadem. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 55 And there assembled unto him all the hands which Demetrius had sent away, and they fought against Demetrius who turned his back and fled. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 56 And Tryphon took the elephants, and made himself master of Antioch. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 57 And young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying: I confirm thee in the high priesthood, and I appoint thee ruler over the four cities, and to be one of the king's friends. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 58 And he sent him vessels of gold for his service, and he gave him leave to drink in gold, and to be clothed in purple, and to wear a golden buckle: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 59 And he made his brother, Simon, governor, from the borders of Tyre even to the confines of Egypt. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 60 Then Jonathan went forth, and passed through the cities beyond the river, and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him to help him, and he came to Ascalon, and they met him honourably out of the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 61 And he went from thence to Gaza: and they that were in Gaza shut him out: and he besieged it, and burnt all the suburbs round about, and took the spoils. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 62 And the men of Gaza made supplication to Jonathan, and he gave them the right hand: and he took their sons for hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem: and he went through the country, as far as Damascus. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 63 And Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come treacherously to Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great army, purposing to remove him from the affairs of the kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 64 And he went against them: but left his brother, Simon, in the country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 65 And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and assaulted it many days, and shut them up. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 66 And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and he cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison in it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 67 And Jonathan and his army encamped by the water of Genesar, and before it was light they were ready in the plain of Asor. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 68 And behold the army of the strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains: but he went out against them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 69 And they that lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 70 And all that were on Jonathan's side fled, and none was left of them, but Mathathias, the son of Absalom, and Judas, the son of Calphi, chief captain of the army. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 71 And Jonathan rent his garments, and cast earth upon his head, and prayed. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 72 And Jonathan turned again to them to battle, and he put them to flight, and they fought. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 73 And they of his part that fled saw this, and they turned again to him, and they all with him pursued the enemies, even to Cades, to their own camp, and they came even thither. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 11 74 And there fell of the aliens in that day three thousand men: and Jonathan returned to Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 1 And Jonathan saw that the time served him, and he chose certain men, and sent them to Rome, to confirm and to renew the amity with them: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 2 And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places, according to the same form. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 3 And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said: Jonathan, the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent us to renew the amity, and alliance, as it was before. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 4 And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 5 And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 6 Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 7 There were letters sent long ago to Onias the high priest, from Arius, who reigned then among you to signify that you are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 8 And Onias received the ambassador with honour and received the letters, wherein there was mention made of the alliance, and amity. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 9 We, though we needed none of these things having for our comfort the holy books that are in our hands, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 10 Chose rather to send to you to renew the brotherhood and friendship, lest we should become stranger to you altogether: for there is a long time passed since you sent to us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 11 We, therefore, at all times without ceasing, both in our festivals, and other days wherein it is convenient, remember you in the sacrifices that we offer, and in our observances, as it is meet and becoming to remember brethren. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 12 And we rejoice at your glory. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 13 But we have had many troubles and wars on every side; and the kings that are round about us have fought against us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 14 But we would not be troublesome to you, nor to the rest of our allies and friends, in these wars. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 15 For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered, and our enemies are humbled. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 16 We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew with them the former amity and alliance. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 17 And we have commanded them to go also to you, and salute you, and to deliver you our letters, concerning the renewing of our brotherhood. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 18 And now you shall do well to give us an answer hereto. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 19 And this is the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 20 Arius, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the high priest, greeting. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 21 It is found in writing concerning the Spartans, and the Jews, that they are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 22 And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to write to us of your prosperity. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 23 And we also have written back to you, That our cattle, and our possessions, are yours: and yours, ours. We, therefore, have commanded that these things should be told you. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 24 Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again with a greater army than before to fight against him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 25 So he went out from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amath: for he gave them no time to enter into his country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 26 And he sent spies into their camp, and they came back, and brought him word that they designed to come upon them in the night. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 27 And when the sun was set, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms all night long ready to fight, and he set sentinels round about the camp. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 28 And the enemies heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle: and they were struck with fear and dread in their heart: and they kindled fires in their camp. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 29 But Jonathan, and they that were with him, knew it not till the morning: for they saw the lights burning. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 30 And Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they had passed the river Eleutherus. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 31 And Jonathan turned upon the Arabians, that are called Zabadeans: and he defeated them, and took the spoils of them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 32 And he went forward, and came to Damascus, and passed through all that country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 33 Simon also went forth, and came as far as Ascalon, and the neighbouring fortresses, and he turned aside to Joppe, and took possession of it, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 34 (For he heard that they designed to deliver the hold to them that took part with Demetrius) and he put a garrison there to keep it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 35 And Jonathan came back, and called together the ancients of the people; and he took a resolution with them to build fortresses in Judea, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 36 And to build up walls in Jerusalem, and raise a mount between the castle and the city, to separate it from the city, that so it might have no communication, and that they might neither buy nor sell. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 37 And they came together to build up the city: for the wall that was upon the brook, towards the east, was broken down, and he repaired that which is called Caphetetha: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 38 And Simon built Adiada in Sephela, and fortified it, and set up gates and bars. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 39 Now when Tryphon had conceived a design to make himself king of Asia and to take the crown, and to stretch out his hand against king Antiochus: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 40 Fearing lest Jonathan would not suffer him, but would fight against him: he sought to seize upon him, and to kill him. So he rose up and came to Bethsan. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 41 And Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand men chosen for battle, and came to Bethsan. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 42 Now when Tryphon saw that Jonathan came with a great army, he durst not stretch forth his hand against him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 43 But received him with honour, and commended him to all his friends, and gave him presents: and he commanded his troops to obey him, as himself. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 44 And he said to Jonathan: Why hast thou troubled all the people, whereas we have no war? +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 45 Now, therefore, send them back to their own houses: and choose thee a few men that may be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais, and I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds, and the army, and all that have any charge, and I will return and go away: for this is the cause of my coming. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 46 And Jonathan believed him, and did as he said: and sent away his army, and they departed into the land of Juda: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 47 But he kept with him three thousand men: of whom he sent two thousand into Galilee, and one thousand went with him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 48 Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates of the city, and took him: and all them that came in with him they slew with the sword. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 49 Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan's company. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 50 But they, when they understood that Jonathan, and all that were with him, were taken and slain, encouraged one another, and went out ready for battle. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 51 Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for their lives, returned back. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 52 Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda and they bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and Israel mourned with great lamentation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 53 Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 12 54 They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore, let us make war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst men. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 1 Now Simon heard that Tryphon was gathering together a very great army to invade the land of Juda, and to destroy it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 2 And seeing that the people was in dread and in fear, he went up to Jerusalem, and assembled the people, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 3 And exhorted them, saying: You know what great battles I and my brethren, and the house of my father, have fought for the laws, and the sanctuary, and the distresses that we have seen: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 4 By reason whereof all my brethren have lost their lives for Israel's sake, and I am left alone. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 5 And now far be it from me to spare my life in any time of trouble: for I am not better than my brethren. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 6 I will avenge then my nation and the sanctuary, and our children, and wives: for all the heathens are gathered together to destroy us out of mere malice. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 7 And the spirit of the people was enkindled as soon as they heard these words: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 8 And they answered with a loud voice, saying: Thou art our leader in the place of Judas, and Jonathan, thy brother: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 9 Fight thou our battles, and we will do whatsoever thou shalt say to us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 10 So gathering together all the men of war, he made haste to finish all the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 11 And he sent Jonathan, the son of Absalom, and with him a new army, into Joppe, and he cast out them that were in it, and himself remained there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 12 And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a great army, to invade the land of Juda, and Jonathan was with him in custody. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 13 But Simon pitched in Addus, over against the plain. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 14 And when Tryphon understood that Simon was risen up in the place of his brother, Jonathan, and that he meant to join battle with him, he sent messengers to him, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 15 Saying: We have detained thy brother, Jonathan, for the money that he owed in the king's account, by reason of the affairs which he had the management of. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 16 But now send a hundred talents of silver, and his two sons for hostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will release him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 17 Now Simon knew that he spoke deceitfully to him; nevertheless, he ordered the money and the children to be sent, lest he should bring upon himself a great hatred of the people of Israel, who might have said: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 18 Because he sent not the money and the children therefore is he lost. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 19 So he sent the children and the hundred talents and he lied, and did not let Jonathan go. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 20 And after this, Tryphon entered within the country, to destroy it: and they went about by the way that leadeth to Ador: and Simon and his army marched to every place whithersoever they went. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 21 And they that were in the castle, sent messengers to Tryphon, that he should make haste to come through the desert, and send them victuals. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 22 And Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that night; but there fell a very great snow, and he came not into the country of Galaad. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 23 And when he approached to Bascama, he slew Jonathan and his sons there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 24 And Tryphon returned, and went into his own country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 25 And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan, his brother, and buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 26 And all Israel bewailed him with great lamentation: and they mourned for him many days. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 27 And Simon built over the sepulchre of his father and of his brethren, a building lofty to the sight, of polished stone, behind and before: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 28 And he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 29 And round about these he set great pillars; and upon the pillars, arms, for a perpetual memory; and by the arms, ships carved, which might be seen by all that sailed on the sea. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 30 This is the sepulchre that he made in Modin, even unto this day. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 31 But Tryphon, when he was upon a journey with the young king, Antiochus, treacherously slew him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 32 And he reigned in his place, and put on the crown of Asia: and brought great evils upon the land. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 33 And Simon built up the strong holds of Judea, fortifying them with high towers, and great walls, and gates and bars: and he stored up victuals in the fortresses. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 34 And Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end that he should grant an immunity to the land; for all that Tryphon did, was to spoil. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 35 And king Demetrius, in answer to this request, wrote a letter in this manner: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 36 King Demetrius to Simon, the high priest, and friend of kings, and to the ancients, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 37 The golden crown, and the palm, which you sent, we have received: and we are ready to make a firm peace with you, and to write to the king's chief officers to release you the things that we have released. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 38 For all that we have decreed in your favour shall stand in force. The strong holds that you have built, shall be your own. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 39 And as for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it: and the crown which you owed: and if any other thing were taxed in Jerusalem, now let it not be taxed. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 40 And if any of you be fit to be enrolled among ours, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 41 In the year one hundred and seventy, the yoke of the Gentiles was taken off from Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 42 And the people of Israel began to write in the instruments, and public records, The first year under Simon, the high priest, the great captain, and prince of the Jews. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 43 In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and camped round about it, and he made engines, and set them to the city, and he struck one tower, and took it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 44 And they that were within the engine leapt into the city: and there was a great uproar in the city. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 45 And they that were in the city went up, with their wives and children, upon the wall, with their garments rent, and they cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 46 And they said: Deal not with us according to our evil deeds, but according to thy mercy. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 47 And Simon being moved, did not destroy them but yet he cast them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein there had been idols, and then he entered into it with hymns, blessing the Lord: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 48 And having cast out of it all uncleanness, he placed in it men that should observe the law: and he fortified it, and made it his habitation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 49 But they that were in the castle of Jerusalem were hindered from going out and coming into the country, and from buying and selling: and they were straitened with hunger, and many of them perished through famine. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 50 And they cried to Simon for peace, and he granted it to them: and he cast them out from thence and cleansed the castle from uncleannesses. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 51 And they entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the year one hundred and seventy-one, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because the great enemy was destroyed out of Israel. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 52 And he ordained that these days should be kept every year with gladness. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 53 And he fortified the mountain of the temple that was near the castle, and he dwelt there himself, and they that were with him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 13 54 And Simon saw that John, his son, was a valiant man for war: and he made him captain of all the forces: and he dwelt in Gazara. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 1 In the year one hundred and seventy-two king Demetrius assembled his army, and went into Media to get him succours to fight against Tryphon. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 2 And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was entered within his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take him alive, and bring him to him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 3 And he went, and defeated the army of Demetrius: and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, and he put him into custody. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 4 And all the land of Juda was at rest all the days of Simon, and he sought the good of his nation: and his power, and his glory pleased them well all his days. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 5 And with all his glory he took Joppe for a haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 6 And he enlarged the bounds of his nation, and made himself master of the country. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 7 And he gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away all uncleanness out of it, and there was none that resisted him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 8 And every man tilled his land with peace, and the land of Juda yielded her increase, and the trees of the fields their fruit. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 9 The ancient men sat all in the streets, and treated together of the good things of the land, and the young men put on them glory, and the robes of war. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 10 And he provided victuals for the cities, and he appointed that they should be furnished with ammunition, so that the fame of his glory was renowned even to the end of the earth. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 11 He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 12 And every man sat under his vine, and under his fig tree: and there was none to make them afraid. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 13 There was none left in the land to fight against them: kings were discomfited in those days. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 14 And he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low, and he sought the law, and took away every unjust and wicked man. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 15 He glorified the sanctuary, and multiplied the vessels of the holy places. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 16 And it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead: and they were very sorry. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 17 But when they heard that Simon, his brother, was made high priest in his place, and was possessed of all the country, and the cities therein: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 18 They wrote to him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and alliance which they had made with Judas and with Jonathan, his brethren. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 19 And they were read before the assembly in Jerusalem. And this is the copy of the letters that the Spartans sent. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 20 The princes and the cities of the Spartans, to Simon, the high priest, and to the ancients, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, their brethren, greeting. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 21 The ambassadors that were sent to our people, have told us of your glory, and honour, and joy: and we rejoiced at their coming. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 22 And we registered what was said by them in the councils of the people, in this manner: Numenius, the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew the former friendship with us. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 23 And it pleased the people to receive the men honourably, and to put a copy of their words in the public records, to be a memorial to the people of the Spartans. And we have written a copy of them to Simon, the high priest. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 24 And after this Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield of gold, of the weight of a thousand pounds, to confirm the league with them. And when the people of Rome had heard +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 25 These words, they said: What thanks shall we give to Simon, and his sons: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 26 For he hath restored his brethren, and hath driven away in fight the enemies of Israel from them: and they decreed him liberty, and registered it in tables of brass, and set it upon pillars in mount Sion. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 27 And this is a copy of the writing. The eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the year one hundred and seventy-two, being the third year under Simon, the high priest, at Asaramel, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 28 In a great assembly of the priests, and of the people, and the princes of the nation, and the ancients of the country, these things were notified: Forasmuch as there have often been wars in our country, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 29 And Simon, the son of Mathathias, of the children of Jarib, and his brethren, have put themselves in danger, and resisted the enemies of their nation, for the maintenance of their holy places, and the law: and have raised their nation to great glory. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 30 And Jonathan gathered together his nation, and was made their high priest, and he was laid to his people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 31 And their enemies desired to tread down and destroy their country, and to stretch forth their hands against their holy places. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 32 Then Simon resisted and fought for his nation, and laid out much of his money, and armed the valiant men of his nation, and gave them wages. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 33 And he fortified the cities of Judea and Bethsura that lieth in the borders of Judea, where the armour of the enemies was before: and he placed there a garrison of Jews. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 34 And he fortified Joppe, which lieth by the sea: and Gazara, which bordereth upon Azotus, wherein the enemies dwelt before, and he placed Jews here: and furnished them with all things convenient for their reparation. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 35 And the people seeing the acts of Simon, and to what glory he meant to bring his nation, made him their prince and high priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to advance his people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 36 And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the heathens were taken away out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David, in Jerusalem, in the castle, out of which they issued forth, and profaned all places round about the sanctuary, and did much evil to purity. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 37 And he placed therein Jews for the defence of the country, and of the city, and he raised up the walls of Jerusalem. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 38 And king Demetrius confirmed him in the high priesthood. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 39 According to these things he made him his friend, and glorified him with great glory. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 40 For he had heard that the Romans had called the Jews their friends, and confederates, and brethren, and that they had received Simon's ambassadors with honour: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 41 And that the Jews, and their priests, had consented that he should be their prince and high priest for ever, till there should arise a faithful prophet: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 42 And that he should be chief over them, and that he should have the charge of the sanctuary, and that he should appoint rulers over their works, and over the country, and over the armour, and over the strong holds; +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 43 And that he should have care of the holy places; and that he should be obeyed by all, and that all the writings in the country should be made in his name; and that he should be clothed with purple and gold: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 44 And that it should not be lawful for any of the people, or of the priests, to disannul any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to call together an assembly in the country without him: or to be clothed with purple, or to wear a buckle of gold. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 45 And whosoever shall do otherwise, or shall make void any of these things, shall be punished. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 46 And it pleased all the people to establish Simon, and to do according to these words. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 47 And Simon accepted thereof, and was well pleased to execute the office of the high priesthood, and to be captain, and prince of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests, and to be chief over all. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 48 And they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary, in a conspicuous place: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 14 49 And that a copy thereof should be put in the treasury, that Simon, and his sons, may have it. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 1 And king Antiochus, the son of Demetrius, sent letters from the isles of the sea to Simon, the priest, and prince of the nation of the Jews, and to all the people: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 2 And the contents were these: King Antiochus to Simon, the high priest, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 3 Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it to its former estate; and I have chosen a great army, and have built ships of war. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 4 And I design to go through the country, that I may take revenge of them that have destroyed our country, and that have made many cities desolate in my realm. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 5 Now, therefore, I confirm unto thee all the oblations which all the kings before me remitted to thee, and what other gifts soever they remitted to thee: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 6 And I give thee leave to coin thy own money in thy country: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 7 And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and all the armour that hath been made, and the fortresses which thou hast built, and which thou keepest in thy hands, let them remain to thee. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 8 And all that is due to the king, and what should be the king's hereafter, from this present and for ever, is forgiven thee. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 9 And when we shall have recovered our kingdom, we will glorify thee, and thy nation, and the temple, with great glory, so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 10 In the year one hundred and seventy-four, Antiochus entered into the land of his fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that few were left with Tryphon. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 11 And king Antiochus pursued after him, and he fled along by the sea coast and came to Dora. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 12 For he perceived that evils were gathered together upon him, and his troops had forsaken him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 13 And Antiochus camped above Dora with a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 14 And he invested the city, and the ships drew near by sea: and they annoyed the city by land, and by sea, and suffered none to come in, or to go out. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 15 And Numenius, and they that had been with him, came from the city of Rome, having letters written to the kings, and countries, the contents whereof were these: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 16 Lucius, the consul of the Romans, to king Ptolemee, greeting. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 17 The ambassadors of the Jews, our friends, came to us, to renew the former friendship and alliance, being sent from Simon, the high priest, and the people of the Jews. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 18 And they brought also a shield of gold of a thousand pounds. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 19 It hath seemed good therefore to us, to write to the kings and countries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against them, their cities, or countries: and that they should give no aid to them that fight against them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 20 And it hath seemed good to us to receive the shield of them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 21 If, therefore, any pestilent men are fled out of their country to you, deliver them to Simon, the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 22 These same things were written to king Demetrius, and to Attalus, and to Ariarathes, and to Arsaces, +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 23 And to all the countries: and to Lampsacus and to the Spartans, and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samus, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Alicarnassus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Rhodes, and Phaselis, and Gortyna, and Gnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 24 And they wrote a copy thereof to Simon, the high priest, and to the people of the Jews. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 25 But king Antiochus moved his camp to Dora the second time, assaulting it continually, and making engines: and he shut up Tryphon, that he could not go out. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 26 And Simon sent to him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver also, and gold, and abundance of furniture. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 27 And he would not receive them, but broke all the covenant that he had made with him before, and alienated himself from him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 28 And he sent to him Athenobius, one of his friends, to treat with him, saying: You hold Joppe and Gazara, and the castle that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my kingdom: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 29 Their borders you have wasted, and you have made great havoc in the land, and have got the dominion of many places in my kingdom. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 30 Now, therefore, deliver up the cities that you have taken, and the tributes of the places whereof you have gotten the dominion without the borders of Judea. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 31 But if not, give me for them five hundred talents of silver, and for the havoc that you have made, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents: or else we will come and fight against you. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 32 So Athenobius, the king's friend came to Jerusalem, and saw the glory of Simon and his magnificence in gold, and silver, and his great equipage, and he was astonished, and told him the king's words. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 33 And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's, but the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 34 But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 35 And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 36 But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king was exceeding angry. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 37 And Tryphon fled away by ship to Orthosias. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 38 And the king appointed Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and gave him an army of footmen and horsemen. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 39 And he commanded him to march with his army towards Judea: and he commanded him to build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the city, and to war against the people. But the king himself pursued after Tryphon. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 40 And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people, and to ravage Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and to kill, and to build Gedor. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 15 41 And he placed there horsemen, and an army: that they might issue forth, and make incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 1 Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done against their people. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 2 And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 3 And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 4 Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in Modin. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 5 And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and behold a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and there was a running river between them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 6 And he and his people pitched their camp over against them, and he saw that the people were afraid to go over the river, so he went over first: then the men seeing him, passed over after him. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 7 And he divided the people, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the horsemen of the enemies were very numerous. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 8 And they sounded the holy trumpets: and Cendebeus and his army were put to flight: and there fell many of them wounded, and the rest fled into the strong hold. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 9 At that time, Judas, John's brother, was wounded: but John pursued after them, till he came to Cedron, which he had built: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 10 And they fled even to the towers that were in the fields of Azotus, and he burnt them with fire. And there fell of them two thousand men, and he returned into Judea in peace. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 11 Now Ptolemee, the son of Abobus, was appointed captain in the plain of Jericho, and he had abundance of silver and gold. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 12 For he was son in law of the high priest. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 13 And his heart was lifted up, and he designed to make himself master of the country, and he purposed treachery against Simon and his sons, to destroy them. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 14 Now Simon, as he was going through the cities that were in the country of Judea, and taking care for the good ordering of them, went down to Jericho, he and Mathathias and Judas, his sons, in the year one hundred and seventy-seven, the eleventh month: the same is the month Sabath. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 15 And the son of Abobus received them deceitfully into a little fortress, that is called Doch, which he had built: and he made them a great feast, and hid men there. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 16 And when Simon and his sons had drunk plentifully, Ptolemee and his men rose up, and took their weapons, and entered into the banqueting place, and slew him, and his two sons, and some of his servants. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 17 And he committed a great treachery in Israel, and rendered evil for good. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 18 And Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king that he should send him an army to aid him, and he would deliver him the country, and their cities, and tributes. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 19 And he sent others to Gazara to kill John: and to the tribunes he sent letters to come to him, and that he would give them silver, and gold, and gifts. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 20 And he sent others to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 21 Now one running before, told John in Gazara, that his father and his brethren were slain, and that he hath sent men to kill thee also. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 22 But when he heard it, he was exceedingly afraid: and he apprehended the men that came to kill him, and he put them to death: for he knew that they sought to make him away. +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 23 And as concerning the rest of the acts of John, and his wars, and the worthy deeds, which he bravely achieved, and the building of the walls, which he made, and the things that he did: +1 Maccabees 1Mac 45 16 24 Behold, these are written in the book of the days of his priesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his father. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 1 To the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt; the brethren, the Jews that are in Jerusalem, and in the land of Judea, send health and good peace. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 2 May God be gracious to you, and remember his covenant that he made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 3 And give you all a heart to worship him, and to do his will with a great heart, and a willing mind. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 4 May he open your heart in his law, and in his commandments, and send you peace. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 5 May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never forsake you in the evil time. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 6 And now here we are praying for you. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 7 When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you in the trouble and violence that came upon us in those years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from the kingdom. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 8 They burnt the gate, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed to the Lord, and were heard, and we offered sacrifices, and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 9 And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of Casleu. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 10 In the year one hundred and eighty-eight, the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 11 Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 12 For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia, that have fought against us, and the holy city. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 13 For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 14 For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 15 And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 16 When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw them forth. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 17 Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 18 Therefore, whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the temple on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought it necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of Scenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when Nehemias offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 19 For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that then were worshippers of God, took privately the fire from the altar, and hid it in a valley where there was a deep pit without water, and there they kept it safe, so that the place was unknown to all men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 20 But when many years had passed, and it pleased God that Nehemias should be sent by the king of Persia, he sent some of the posterity of those priests that had hid it, to seek for the fire: and as they told us, they found no fire, but thick water. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 21 Then he bade them draw it up, and bring it to him: and the priest, Nehemias, commanded the sacrifices that were laid on, to be sprinkled with the same water, both the wood, and the things that were laid upon it. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 22 And when this was done, and the time came that the sun shone out, which before was in a cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that all wondered. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 23 And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 24 And the prayer of Nehemias was after this manner: O Lord God, Creator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who alone art the good king, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 25 Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers, and didst sanctify them: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 26 Receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and preserve thy own portion, and sanctify it. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 27 Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art our God +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 28 Punish them that oppress us, and that treat us injuriously with pride. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 29 Establish thy people in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 30 And the priests sung hymns till the sacrifice was consumed. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 31 And when the sacrifice was consumed, Nehemias commanded the water that was left to be poured out upon the great stones. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 32 Which being done, there was kindled a flame from them: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 33 And when this matter became public, it was told to the king of Persia, that in the place where the priests that were led away, had hid the fire, there appeared water, with which Nehemias and they that were with him had purified the sacrifices. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 34 And the king considering, and diligently examining the matter, made a temple for it, that he might prove what had happened. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 35 And when he had proved it, he gave the priests many goods, and divers presents, and he took and distributed them to them with his own hand. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 1 36 And Nehemias called this place Nephthar, which is interpreted purification. But many call it Nephi. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 1 Now it is found in the descriptions of Jeremias, the prophet, that he commanded them that went into captivity, to take the fire, as it hath been signified, and how he gave charge to them that were carried away into captivity. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 2 And how he gave them the law, that they should not forget the commandments of the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds, seeing the idols of gold, and silver, and the ornaments of them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 3 And with other such like speeches, he exhorted them that they would not remove the law from their heart. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 4 It was also contained in the same writing, how the prophet, being warned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should accompany him, till he came forth to the mountain where Moses went up, and saw the inheritance of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 5 And when Jeremias came thither he found a hollow cave: and he carried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 6 Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but they could not find it. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 7 And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the people, and receive them to mercy. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 8 And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 9 For he treated wisdom in a magnificent manner: and like a wise man, he offered the sacrifice of the dedication, and of the finishing of the temple. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 10 And as Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down from heaven, and consumed the holocaust: so Solomon also prayed, and fire came down from heaven and consumed the holocaust. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 11 And Moses said: Because the sin offering was not eaten, it was consumed. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 12 So Solomon also celebrated the dedication eight days. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 13 And these same things were set down in the memoirs, and commentaries of Nehemias: and how he made a library, and gathered together out of the countries, the books both of the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings, and concerning the holy gifts. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 14 And in like manner Judas also gathered together all such things as were lost by the war we had, and they are in our possession. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 15 Wherefore, if you want these things, send some that may fetch them to you. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 16 As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 17 And we hope that God, who hath delivered his people, and hath rendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 18 As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and will gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy place. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 19 For he hath delivered us out of great perils, and hath cleansed the place. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 20 Now as concerning Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 21 As also the wars against Antiochus, the Illustrious, and his son, Eupator: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 22 And the manifestations that came from heaven to them, that behaved themselves manfully on the behalf of the Jews, so that, being but a few they made themselves masters of the whole country, and put to flight the barbarous multitude: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 23 And recovered again the most renowned temple in all the world, and delivered the city, and restored the laws that were abolished, the Lord with all clemency shewing mercy to them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 24 And all such things as have been comprised in five books by Jason, of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 25 For considering the multitude of books, and the difficulty that they find that desire to undertake the narrations of histories, because of the multitude of the matter, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 26 We have taken care for those indeed that are willing to read, that it might be a pleasure of mind: and for the studious, that they may more easily commit to memory: and that all that read might receive profit. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 27 And as to ourselves indeed, in undertaking this work of abridging, we have taken in hand no easy task; yea, rather a business full of watching and sweat. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 28 But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of others: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 29 Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular, and as for ourselves, according to the plan proposed, studying to be brief. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 30 For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged of us. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 31 For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 32 But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 2 33 Here then we will begin the narration: let this be enough by way of a preface: for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 1 Therefore, when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws as yet were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias, the high priest and the hatred his soul had of evil, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 2 It came to pass that even the kings themselves and the princes esteemed the place worthy of the highest honour, and glorified the temple with very great gifts: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 3 So that Seleucus, king of Asia, allowed out of his revenues all the charges belonging to the ministry of the sacrifices. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 4 But one Simon, of the tribe of Benjamin, who was appointed overseer of the temple, strove in opposition to the high priest, to bring about some unjust thing in the city. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 5 And when he could not overcome Onias, he went to Apollonius, the son of Tharseas, who at that time was governor of Celesyria, and Phenicia: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 6 And told him, that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of immense sums of money, and the common store was infinite, which did not belong to the account of the sacrifices: and that it was possible to bring all into the king's hands. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 7 Now when Apollonius had given the king notice concerning the money that he was told of, he called for Heliodorus, who had the charge over his affairs, and sent him with commission to bring him the foresaid money. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 8 So Heliodorus forthwith began his journey, under a colour of visiting the cities of Celesyria and Phenicia, but indeed to fulfil the king's purpose. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 9 And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received in the city by the high priest, he told him what information had been given concerning the money: and declared the cause for which he was come: and asked if these things were so indeed. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 10 Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 11 And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 12 But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 13 But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 14 So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 15 And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 16 Now whosoever saw the countenance of the high priest, was wounded in heart: for his face, and the changing of his colour, declared the inward sorrow of his mind. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 17 For the man was so compassed with sadness and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that beheld him, what sorrow he had in his heart. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 18 Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 19 And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 20 And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 21 For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 22 And these indeed called upon almighty God, to preserve the things that had been committed to them safe and sure for those that had committed them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 23 But Heliodorus executed that which he had resolved on, himself being present in the same place with his guard about the treasury. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 24 But the spirit of the Almighty God gave a great evidence of his presence, so that all that had presumed to obey him, falling down by the power of God, were struck with fainting and dread. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 25 For there appeared to them a horse, with a terrible rider upon him, adorned with a very rich covering: and he ran fiercely and struck Heliodorus with his fore feet, and he that sat upon him seemed to have armour of gold. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 26 Moreover there appeared two other young men, beautiful and strong, bright and glorious, and in comely apparel: who stood by him, on either side, and scourged him without ceasing with many stripes. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 27 And Heliodorus suddenly fell to the ground, and they took him up, covered with great darkness, and having put him into a litter, they carried him out. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 28 So he that came with many servants, and all his guard, into the aforesaid treasury, was carried out, no one being able to help him, the manifest power of God being known. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 29 And he indeed, by the power of God, lay speechless, and without all hope of recovery. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 30 But they praised the Lord, because he had glorified his place: and the temple, that a little before was full of fear and trouble, when the Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 31 Then some of the friends of Heliodorus forthwith begged of Onias, that he would call upon the Most High to grant him his life, who was ready to give up the ghost. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 32 So the high priest, considering that the king might perhaps suspect that some mischief had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice of health for the recovery of the man. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 33 And when the high priest was praying, the same young men in the same clothing stood by Heliodorus, and said to him: Give thanks to Onias the priest: because for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 34 And thou having been scourged by God, declare unto all men the great works and the power of God. And having spoken thus, they appeared no more. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 35 So Heliodorus, after he had offered a sacrifice to God, and made great vows to him, that had granted him life, and given thanks to Onias, taking his troops with him, returned to the king. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 36 And he testified to all men the works of the great God, which he had seen with his own eyes. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once more to Jerusalem, he said: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 38 If thou hast any enemy, or traitor to thy king dom, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape: for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 39 For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor and protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come to do evil to it. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 3 40 And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury, fell out in this manner. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 1 But Simon, of whom we spoke before, who was the betrayer of the money, and of his country, spoke ill of Onias, as though he had incited Heliodorus to do these things, and had been the promoter of evils: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 2 And he presumed to call him a traitor to the kingdom, who provided for the city, and defended his nation, and was zealous for the law of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 3 But when the enmities proceeded so far, that murders also were committed by some of Simon's friends: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 4 Onias, considering the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, who was the governor of Celesyia, and Phenicia, was outrageous, which increased the malice of Simon, went to the king, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 5 Not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but with view to the common good of all the people. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 6 For he saw that, except the king took care, it was impossible that matters should be settled in peace, or that Simon would cease from his folly. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 7 But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called the Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason, the brother of Onias, ambitiously sought the high priesthood: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 8 And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and out of other revenues fourscore talents. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 9 Besides this he promised also a hundred and fifty more, if he might have license to set him up a place for exercise, and a place for youth, and to entitle them that were at Jerusalem, Antiochians. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 10 Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the rule into his hands, forthwith he began to bring over his countrymen to the fashion of the heathens. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 11 And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John, the father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and brought in fashions that were perverse. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 12 For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 13 Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch, and no priest. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 14 Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of the discus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 15 And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 16 For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be like them, who were their enemies and murderers. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 17 For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass unpunished: but this the time following will declare. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 18 Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 19 The wicked Jason sent from Jerusalem sinful men, to carry three hundred didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of Hercules; but the bearers thereof desired it might not be bestowed on the sacrifices, because it was not necessary, but might be deputed for other charges. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 20 So the money was appointed by him that sent it to the sacrifice of Hercules: but because of them that carried it was employed for the making of galleys. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 21 Now when Apollonius, the son of Mnestheus was sent into Egypt to treat with the nobles of king Philometor, and Antiochus understood that he was wholly excluded from the affairs of the kingdom, consulting his own interest, he departed thence and came to Joppe, and from thence to Jerusalem. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 22 Where he was received in a magnificent manner by Jason, and the city, and came in with torch lights, and with praises, and from thence he returned with his army into Phenicia. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 23 Three years afterwards Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the aforesaid Simon, to carry money to the king, and to bring answers from him concerning certain necessary affairs. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 24 But he being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the appearance of his power, got the high priesthood for himself, by offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 25 So having received the king's mandate, he returned, bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 26 Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 27 So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of the castle, called for it. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 28 For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 29 And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus, his brother, succeeding: and Sostratus alas made governor of the Cyprians. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 30 When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus, and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to Antiochus, the king's concubine. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 31 The king, therefore, went in all haste to appease them, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, for his deputy. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 32 Then Menelaus supposing that he had found a convenient time, having stolen certain vessels of gold out of the temple, gave them to Andronicus, and others he had sold at Tyre, and in the neighbouring cities: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 33 Which when Onias understood most certainly, he reproved him, keeping himself in a safe place at Antioch, beside Daphne. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 34 Whereupon Menelaus coming to Andronicus, desired him to kill Onias. And he went to Onias, and gave him his right hand with an oath, and (though he were suspected by him) persuaded him to come forth out of the sanctuary, and immediately slew him, without any regard to justice. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 35 For which cause not only the Jews, but also the other nations, conceived indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of so great a man. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 36 And when the king was come back from the places of Cilicia, the Jews that were at Antioch, and also the Greeks, went to him: complaining of the unjust murder of Onias. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 37 Antiochus, therefore, was grieved in his mind for Onias, and being moved to pity, shed tears, remembering the sobriety and modesty of the deceased. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 38 And being inflamed to anger, he commanded Andronicus to be stripped of his purple, and to be led about through all the city: and that in the same place wherein he had committed the impiety against Onias, the sacrilegious wretch should be put to death, the Lord repaying him his deserved punishment. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed by Lysimachus in the temple, by the counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, a great quantity of gold being already carried away. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 40 Wherefore the multitude making an insurrection, and their minds being filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began to use violence, one Tyrannus being captain, a man far gone both in age and in madness. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 41 But when they perceived the attempt of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, some strong clubs, and some threw ashes upon Lysimachus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 42 And many of them were wounded, and some struck down to the ground, but all were put to flight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow himself, they slew him beside the treasury. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 43 Now concerning these matters, an accusation was laid against Menelaus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 44 And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 45 But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 46 So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 47 So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 48 Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 49 Wherefore even the Tyrians, being moved with indignation, were very liberal towards their burial. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 4 50 And so through the covetousness of them that were in power, Menelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying of the citizens. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 1 At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into Egypt. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 2 And it came to pass, that through the whole city of Jerusalem, for the space of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in gilded raiment, and armed with spears, like bands of soldiers. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 3 And horses set in order by ranks, running one against another, with the shakings of shields, and a multitude of men in helmets, with drawn swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden armour, and of harnesses of all sorts. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 4 Wherefore all men prayed that these prodigies might turn to good. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 5 Now when there was gone forth a false rumour as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason taking with him no fewer than a thousand men, suddenly assaulted the city: and though the citizens ran together to the wall, the city at length was taken, and Menelaus fled into the castle. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 6 But Jason slew his countrymen without mercy, not considering that prosperity against one's own kindred is a very great evil, thinking they had been enemies, and not citizens, whom he conquered. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 7 Yet he did not get the principality, but received confusion at the end, for the reward of his treachery, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 8 At the last, having been shut up by Aretas, the king of the Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 9 And he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, going to Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have refuge there: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 10 But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 11 Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 12 And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 13 Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 14 And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 15 But this was not enough, he presumed also to enter into the temple, the most holy in all the world Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his country, being his guide. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 16 And taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given by other kings and cities, for the ornament and the glory of the place, he unworthily handled and profaned them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 17 Thus Antiochus going astray in mind, did not consider that God was angry for a while, because of the sins of the inhabitants of the city: and therefore this contempt had happened to the place: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 18 Otherwise had they not been involved in many sins, as Heliodorus, who was sent by king Seleucus to rob the treasury, so this man also, as soon as he had come, had been forthwith scourged, and put back from his presumption. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 19 But God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 20 And, therefore, the place also itself was made partaker of the evils of the people: but afterwards shall communicate in the good things thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of Almighty God, shall be exalted again with great glory, when the great Lord shall be reconciled. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 21 So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking through pride that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea passable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 22 He left also governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, but in manners more barbarous than he that set him there: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 23 And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 24 And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful prince, Apollonius, with an army of two and twenty thousand men, commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the women and the younger sort. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 25 Who, when he was come to Jerusalem, pretending peace, rested till the holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he commanded his men to take arms. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 26 And he slew all that were come forth to flee: and running through the city with armed men, he destroyed a very great multitude. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 5 27 But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might not be partakers of the pollution. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 1 But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 2 And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 3 And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 4 For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 5 The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 6 And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 7 But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 8 And there went out a decree into the neighbouring cities of the Gentiles, by the suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they also should act in like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 9 And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 10 For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 11 And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 12 Now I beseech those that shall read this book, that they be not shocked at these calamities, but that they consider the things that happened, not as being for the destruction, but for the correction of our nation. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 13 For it is a token of great goodness, when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 14 For, not as with other nations, (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:) +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 15 Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 16 And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity he forsaketh them not. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 17 But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers. And now we must come to the narration. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 18 Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years, and of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 19 But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 20 And considering in what manner he was to come to it, patiently bearing, he determined not to do any unlawful things for the love of life. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 21 But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the sacrifice: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 22 That by so doing he might be delivered from death; and for the sake of their old friendship with the man, they did him this courtesy. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 23 But he began to consider the dignity of his age, and his ancient years, and the inbred honour of his grey head, and his good life and conversation from a child; and he answered without delay, according to the ordinances of the holy law made by God, saying, that he would rather be sent into the other world. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 24 For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 25 And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 26 For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty neither alive nor dead. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 27 Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 28 And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 29 And they that led him, and had been a little before more mild, were changed to wrath for the words he had spoken, which they thought were uttered out of arrogancy. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 30 But when be was now ready to die with the stripes, he groaned: and said: O Lord, who hast the holy knowledge, thou knowest manifestly that whereas I might be delivered from death, I suffer grievous pains in body: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear thee. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 6 31 Thus did this man die, leaving not only to young men, but also to the whole nation, the memory of his death, for an example of virtue and fortitude. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 1 It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 2 But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 3 Then the king being angry, commanded fryingpans and brazen caldrons to be made hot: which forthwith being heated, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 4 He commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had spoken first: and the skin of his head being drawn off, to chop off also the extremities of his hands and feet, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 5 And when he was now maimed in all parts, he commanded him, being yet alive, to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the fryingpan: and while he was suffering therein long torments, the rest, together with the mother, exhorted one another to die manfully, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 6 Saying: The Lord God will look upon the truth, and will take pleasure in us, as Moses declared in the profession of the canticle; And in his servants he will take pleasure. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 7 So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the next to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him if he would eat, before he were punished throughout the whole body in every limb. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 8 But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also, in the next place, received the torments of the first: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 9 And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 10 After him the third was made a mocking-stock, and when he was required, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched out his hands: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 11 And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them, because I hope to receive them again from him. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 12 So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 13 And after he was thus dead, they tormented the fourth in the like manner. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 14 And when he was now ready to die, he spoke thus: It is better, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God, to be raised up again by him; for, as to thee, thou shalt have no resurrection unto life. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 15 And when they had brought the fifth, they tormented him. But he, looking upon the king, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 16 Said: Whereas thou hast power among men though thou art corruptible, thou dost what thou wilt but think not that our nation is forsaken by God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 17 But stay patiently a while, and thou shalt see his great power, in what manner he will torment thee and thy seed. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 18 After him they brought the sixth, and he being ready to die, spoke thus: Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God, and things worthy of admiration are done to us: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 19 But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou hast attempted to fight against God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 20 Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 21 And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom; and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 22 She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb; for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 23 But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man, and that found out the origin of all, he will restore to you again, in his mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise yourselves for the sake of his laws. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 24 Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising the voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with things necessary. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 25 But when the young man was not moved with these things, the king called the mother, and counselled her to deal with the young man to save his life. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 26 And when he had exhorted her with many words she promised that she would counsel her son. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 27 So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said in her own language: My son have pity upon me, that bore thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 28 I beseech thee, my son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that is in them, and consider that God made them out of nothing, and mankind also: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 29 So thou shalt not fear this tormentor, but being made a worthy partner with thy brethren, receive death, that in that mercy I may receive thee again with thy brethren. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 30 While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said: For whom do you stay? I will not obey the commandment of the king, but the commandment of the law which was given us by Moses. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 31 But thou that hast been the author of all mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hand of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 32 For we suffer thus for our sins. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 33 And though the Lord, our God, is angry with us a little while, for our chastisement and correction, yet he will be reconciled again to his servants. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 34 But thou, O wicked, and of all men most flagitious, be not lifted up without cause with vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his servants. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 35 For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of the Almighty God, who beholdeth all things. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 36 For my brethren having now undergone a short pain, are under the covenant of eternal life: but thou, by the judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 37 But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the laws of our fathers: calling upon God to be speedily merciful to our nation, and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he alone is God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 38 But in me, and in my brethren, the wrath of the Almighty, which hath justly been brought upon all our nation, shall cease. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 39 Then the king being incensed with anger, raged against him more cruelly than all the rest, taking it grievously that he was mocked. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 40 So this man also died undefiled, wholly trusting in the Lord. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 41 And last of all, after the sons, the mother also was consumed. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 7 42 But now there is enough said of the sacrifices and of the excessive cruelties. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 1 But Judas Machabeus, and they that were with him, went privately into the towns: and calling together their kinsmen and friends, and taking unto them such as continued in the Jews' religion, they assembled six thousand men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 2 And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon his people that was trodden down by all and would have pity on the temple, that was defiled by the wicked: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 3 That he would have pity also upon the city that was destroyed, that was ready to be made even with the ground, and would hear the voice of the blood that cried to him: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 4 That he would remember also the most unjust deaths of innocent children, and the blasphemies offered to his name, and would shew his indignation on this occasion. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 5 Now when Machabeus had gathered a multitude, he could not be withstood by the heathens: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 6 So coming unawares upon the towns and cities, he set them on fire, and taking possession of the most commodious places, he made no small slaughter of the enemies: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 7 And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and the fame of his valour was spread abroad every where. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 8 Then Philip seeing that the man gained ground by little and little, and that things for the most part succeeded prosperously with him, wrote to Ptolemee, the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, to send aid to the king's affairs. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 9 And he with all speed sent Nicanor, the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, giving him no fewer than twenty thousand armed men of different nations, to root out the whole race of the Jews, joining also with him Gorgias, a good soldier, and of great experience in matters of war. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 10 And Nicanor purposed to raise for the king the tribute of two thousand talents, that was to be given to the Romans, by making so much money of the captive Jews: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 11 Wherefore he sent immediately to the cities upon the sea coast, to invite men together to buy up the Jewish slaves, promising that they should have ninety slaves for one talent, not reflecting on the vengeance which was to follow him from the Almighty. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 12 Now when Judas found that Nicanor was coming, he imparted to the Jews that were with him, that the enemy was at hand. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 13 And some of them being afraid, and distrusting the justice of God, fled away. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 14 Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord, that he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them before he came near them: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 15 And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made with their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that was invoked upon them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 16 But Machabeus calling together seven thousand that were with him, exhorted them not to be reconciled to the enemies, nor to fear the multitude of the enemies who came wrongfully against them, but to fight manfully: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 17 Setting before their eyes the injury they had unjustly done the holy place, and also the injury they had done to the city, which had been shamefully abused, besides their destroying the ordinances of the fathers. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 18 For, said he, they trust in their weapons, and in their boldness: but we trust in the Almighty Lord, who at a beck can utterly destroy both them that come against us, and the whole world. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 19 Moreover, he put them in mind also of the helps their fathers had received from God: and how, under Sennacherib, a hundred and eighty-five thousand had been destroyed. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 20 And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in Babylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the point, and the Macedonians, their companions, were at a stand, slew a hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven, and for this they received many favours. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 21 With these words they were greatly encouraged and disposed even to die for the laws and their country. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 22 So he appointed his brethren captains over each division of his army; Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to each one fifteen hundred men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 23 And after the holy book had been read to them by Esdras, and he had given them for a watchword, The help of God: himself leading the first band, he joined battle with Nicanor: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 24 And the Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand men: and having wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army, they obliged them to fly. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 25 And they took the money of them that came to buy them, and they pursued them on every side. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 26 But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 27 But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 28 Then after the sabbath they divided the spoils to the feeble and the orphans, and the widows, and the rest they took for themselves and their servants. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 29 When this was done, and they had all made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord, to be reconciled to his servants unto the end. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 30 Moreover, they slew above twenty thousand of them that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, and they made themselves masters of the high strong holds: and they divided amongst them many spoils, giving equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless, and the widows; yea, and the aged also +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 31 And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they laid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils they carried to Jerusalem: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 32 They slew also Philarches, who was with Timotheus, a wicked man, who had many ways afflicted the Jews. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 33 And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his impieties: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 34 But as for that most wicked man, Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to the sale of the Jews, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 35 Being, through the help of the Lord, brought down by them, of whom he had made no account, laying aside his garment of glory, fleeing through the midland country, he came alone to Antioch, being rendered very unhappy by the destruction of his army. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 8 36 And he that had promised to levy the tribute for the Romans, by the means of the captives of Jerusalem, now professed that the Jews had God for their protector, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the laws appointed by him. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 1 At that time Antiochus returned with dishonour out of Persia. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 2 For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temple, and to oppress the city, but the multitude running together to arms, put them to flight: and so it fell out that Antiochus being put to flight, returned with disgrace. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 3 Now when he was come about Ecbatana, he received the news of what had happened to Nicanor and Timotheus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 4 And swelling with anger, he thought to revenge upon the Jews the injury done by them that had put him to flight. And therefore he commanded his chariot to be driven, without stopping in his journey, the judgment of heaven urging him forward, because he had spoken so proudly, that he would come to Jerusalem, and make it a common burying place of the Jews. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 5 But the Lord, the God of Israel, that seeth all things, struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 6 And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of others with many and new torments, albeit he by no means ceased from his malice. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 7 Moreover, being filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding the matter to be hastened, it happened as he was going with violence, that he fell from the chariot, so that his limbs were much pained by a grievous bruising of the body. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 8 Thus he that seemed to himself to command even the waves of the sea, being proud above the condition of man, and to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, now being cast down to the ground, was carried in a litter, bearing witness to the manifest power of God in himself: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 9 So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to the army. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 10 And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 11 And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 12 And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 13 Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 14 And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 15 And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 16 The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 17 Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through every place of the earth, and declare the power of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 18 But his pains not ceasing, (for the just judgment of God was come upon him) despairing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner of a supplication, a letter in these words: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 19 To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 20 If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 21 As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 22 Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 23 But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the higher countries, appointed who should reign after him: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 24 To the end that if any thing contrary to expectation should fall out, or any bad tidings should be brought, they that were in the countries, knowing to whom the whole government was left, might not be troubled. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 25 Moreover, considering that neighbouring princes, and borderers, wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event, I have appointed my son, Antiochus, king, whom I often recommended to many of you, when I went into the higher provinces: and I have written to him what I have joined here below. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 26 I pray you, therefore, and request of you, that, remembering favours both public and private, you will every man of you continue to be faithful to me and to my son. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 27 For I trust that he will behave with moderation and humanity, and following my intentions, will be gracious unto you. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 28 Thus the murderer and blasphemer being grievously struck, as himself had treated others, died a miserable death in a strange country, among the mountains. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 9 29 But Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body: and out of fear of the son of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemee Philometor. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 1 But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 2 But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 3 And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 4 And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 5 Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the strangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 6 And they kept eight days with joy, after the manner of the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long before they had kept the feast of the tabernacles when they were in the mountains, and in dens like wild beasts. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 7 Therefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms, for him that had given them good success in cleansing his place. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 8 And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 9 And this was the end of Antiochus, that was called the Illustrious. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 10 But now we will repeat the acts of Eupator, the son of that wicked Antiochus, abridging the account of the evils that happened in the wars. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 11 For when he was come to the crown, he appointed over the affairs of his realm one Lysias, general of the army of Phenicia and Syria. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 12 For Ptolemee, that was called Macer, was determined to be strictly just to the Jews and especially by reason of the wrong that had been done them, and to deal peaceably with them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 13 But being accused for this to Eupator by his friends, and being oftentimes called traitor, because he had left Cyprus, which Philometor had committed to him, and coming over to Antiochus the Illustrious, had revolted also from him, he put an end to his life by poison. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 14 But Gorgias, who was governor of the holds, taking with him the strangers, often fought against the Jews. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 15 And the Jews that occupied the most commodious holds, received those that were driven out of Jerusalem, and attempted to make war. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 16 Then they that were with Machabeus, beseeching the Lord by prayers to be their helper, made a strong attack upon the strong holds of the Idumeans: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 17 And assaulting them with great force, won the holds, killed them that came in the way, and slew altogether no fewer than twenty thousand. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 18 And whereas some were fled into very strong towers, having all manner of provision to sustain a siege, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 19 Machabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zacheus, and them that were with them, in sufficient number to besiege them, and departed to those expeditions which urged more. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 20 Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for the sake of money by some that were in the towers: and taking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of them escape. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 21 But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the rulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their brethren for money, having let their adversaries escape. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 22 So he put these traitors to death, and forthwith took the two towers. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 23 And having good success in arms, and all things he took in hand, he slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 24 But Timotheus, who before had been overcome by the Jews, having called together a multitude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen out of Asia, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 25 But Machabeus, and they that were with him, when he drew near, prayed to the Lord, sprinkling earth upon their heads, and girding their loins with haircloth, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 26 And lying prostrate at the foot of the altar, besought him to be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law saith. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 27 And so after prayer taking their arms, they went forth further from the city, and when they were come very near the enemies they rested. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 28 But as soon as the sun was risen both sides joined battle: the one part having, with their valour, the Lord for a surety of victory, and success: but the other side making their rage their leader in battle. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 29 But when they were in the heat of the engagement, there appeared to the enemies from heaven five men upon horses, comely, with golden bridles, conducting the Jews: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 30 Two of them took Machabeus between them, and covered him on every side with their arms, and kept him safe; but cast darts and fireballs against the enemy, so that they fell down, being both confounded with blindness, and filled with trouble. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 31 And there were slain twenty thousand five hundred, and six hundred horsemen. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 32 But Timotheus fled into Gazara, a strong hold where Chereas was governor. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 33 Then Machabeus, and they that were with him cheerfully laid siege to the fortress four days. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 34 But they that were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and cast forth abominable words. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 35 But when the fifth day appeared, twenty young men of them that were with Machabeus, inflamed in their minds, because of the blasphemy, approached manfully to the wall, and pushing forward with fierce courage, got up upon it: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 36 Moreover, others also getting up after them, went to set fire to the towers and the gates, and to burn the blasphemers alive. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 37 And having for two days together pillaged and sacked the fortress, they killed Timotheus, who was found hid in a certain place: they slew also his brother Chereas, and Apollophanes. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 10 38 And when this was done, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, who had done great things in Israel, and given them the victory. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 1 A short time after this Lysias, the king's lieutenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased with what had happened, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 2 Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 3 And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles and to set the high priesthood to sale every year: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 4 Never considering the power of God, but puffed up in mind, and trusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of his horsemen, and his fourscore elephants. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 5 So he came into Judea, and approaching to Bethsura, which was in a narrow place, the space of five furlongs from Jerusalem, he laid siege to that fortress. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 6 But when Machabeus, and they that were with him, understood that the strong holds were besieged, they and all the people besought the Lord with lamentations and tears, that he would send a good angel to save Israel. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 7 Then Machabeus himself first taking his arms, exhorted the rest to expose themselves together with him, to the danger, and to succour their brethren. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 8 And when they were going forth together with a willing mind, there appeared at Jerusalem a horseman going before them in white clothing, with golden armour, shaking a spear. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 9 Then they all together blessed the merciful Lord, and took great courage: being ready to break through not only men, but also the fiercest beasts, and walls of iron. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 10 So they went on courageously, having a helper from heaven, and the Lord, who shewed mercy to them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 11 And rushing violently upon the enemy, like lions, they slew of them eleven thousand footmen, and one thousand six hundred horsemen: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 12 And put all the rest to flight; and many of them being wounded, escaped naked: Yea, and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and escaped. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 13 And as he was a man of understanding, considering with himself the loss he had suffered, and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because they relied upon the help of the Almighty God, he sent to them: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 14 And promised that he would agree to all things that are just, and that he would persuade the king to be their friend. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 15 Then Machabeus consented to the request of Lysias, providing for the common good in all things; and whatsoever Machabeus wrote to Lysias, concerning the Jews, the king allowed of. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 16 For there were letters written to the Jews from Lysias, to this effect: Lysias, to the people of the Jews, greeting. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 17 John, and Abesalom, who were sent from you, delivering your writings, requested that I would accomplish those things which were signified by them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 18 Therefore whatsoever things could be reported to the king, I have represented to him: and he hath granted as much as the matter permitted. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 19 If, therefore, you will keep yourselves loyal in affairs, hereafter also I will endeavour to be a means of your good. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 20 But as concerning other particulars, I have given orders by word both to these, and to them that are sent by me, to commune with you. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 21 Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the four and twentieth day of the month of Dioscorus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 22 But the king's letter contained these words King Antiochus to Lysias, his brother, greeting. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 23 Our father being translated amongst the gods we are desirous that they that are in our realm should live quietly, and apply themselves diligently to their own concerns. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 24 And we have heard that the Jews would not consent to my father to turn to the rites of the Greeks but that they would keep to their own manner of living and therefore that they request us to allow them to live after their own laws. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 25 Wherefore being desirous that this nation also should be at rest, we have ordained and decreed, that the temple should be restored to them, and that they may live according to the custom of their ancestors. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 26 Thou shalt do well, therefore, to send to them, and grant them peace, that our pleasure being known, they may be of good comfort, and look to their own affairs. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 27 But the king's letter to the Jews was in this manner: King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews, greeting. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 28 If you are well, you are as we desire: we ourselves also are well. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 29 Menelaus came to us, saying that you desired to come down to your countrymen, that are with us. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 30 We grant, therefore, a safe conduct to all that come and go, until the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 31 That the Jews may use their own kind of meats, and their own laws, as before: and that none of them any manner of ways be molested for things which have been done by ignorance. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 32 And we have sent also Menelaus to speak to you. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 33 Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 34 The Romans also sent them a letter, to this effect: Quintus Memmius, and Titus Manilius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 35 Whatsoever Lysias, the king's cousin, hath granted to you, we also have granted. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 36 But touching such things as he thought should be referred to the king, after you have diligently conferred among yourselves, send some one forthwith, that we may decree as it is convenient for you: for we are going to Antioch. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 37 And therefore make haste to write back, that we may know of what mind you are. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 11 38 Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 1 When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to husbandry. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 2 But they that were behind, viz. Timotheus, and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them Nicanor, the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to live in peace, and to be quiet. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 3 The men of Joppe also were guilty of this kind of wickedness: they desired the Jews, who dwelt among them, to go with their wives and children into the boats, which they had prepared, as though they had no enmity to them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 4 Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 5 But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty done to his countrymen, he commanded the men that were with him: and after having called upon God, the just judge, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 6 He came against those murderers of his brethren, and set the haven on fire in the night, burnt the boats, and slew with the sword them that escaped from the fire. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 7 And when he had done these things in this manner, he departed as if he would return again, and root out all the Joppites. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 8 But when he understood that the men of Jamnia also designed to do in like manner to the Jews that dwelt among them, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 9 He came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set the haven on fire, with the ships, so that the light of the fire was seen at Jerusalem, two hundred and forty furlongs off. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 10 And when they were now gone from thence nine furlongs, and were marching towards Timotheus, five thousand footmen, and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians, set upon them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 11 And after a hard fight, in which, by the help of God, they got the victory, the rest of the Arabians being overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising to give him pastures, and to assist him in other things. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 12 And Judas thinking that they might be profitable indeed in many things, promised them peace, and after having joined hands, they departed to their tents. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 13 He also laid siege to a certain strong city, encompassed with bridges and walls, and inhabited by multitudes of different nations, the name of which is Casphin. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 14 But they that were within it, trusting in the strength of the walls, and the provision of victuals, behaved in a more negligent manner, and provoked Judas with railing and blaspheming, and uttering such words as were not to be spoken. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 15 But Machabeus calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without any rams or engines of war threw down the walls of Jericho, in the time of Josue, fiercely assaulted the walls. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 16 And having taken the city by the will of the Lord, he made an unspeakable slaughter, so that a pool adjoining, of two furlongs broad, seemed to run with the blood of the slain. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 17 From thence they departed seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to Characa, to the Jews that are called Tubianites. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 18 But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for before he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 19 But Dositheus, and Sosipater, who were captains with Machabeus, slew them that were left by Timotheus in the hold, to the number of ten thousand men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 20 And Machabeus having set in order about him six thousand men, and divided them by bands, went forth against Timotheus, who had with him a hundred and twenty thousand footmen, and two thousand five hundred horsemen. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 21 Now when Timotheus had knowledge of the coming of Judas, he sent the women and children, and the other baggage, before him into a fortress, called Carnion: for it was impregnable, and hard to come at, by reason of the straitness of the places. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 22 But when the first band of Judas came in sight, the enemies were struck with fear, by the presence of God, who seeth all things, and they were put to flight one from another, so that they were often thrown down by their own companions, and wounded with the strokes of their own swords. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 23 But Judas pursued them close, punishing the profane, of whom he slew thirty thousand men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 24 And Timotheus himself fell into the hands of the band of Dositheus and Sosipater, and with many prayers he besought them to let him go with his life, because he had the parents and brethren of many of the Jews, who, by his death, might happen to be deceived. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 25 And when he had given his faith that he would restore them according to the agreement, they let him go without hurt, for the saving of their brethren. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 26 Then Judas went away to Carnion, where he slew five and twenty thousand persons. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 27 And after he had put to flight and destroyed these, he removed his army to Ephron, a strong city, wherein there dwelt a multitude of divers nations: and stout young men standing upon the walls, made a vigorous resistance: and in this place there were many engines of war, and a provision of darts. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 28 But when they had invocated the Almighty, who with his power breaketh the strength of the enemies, they took the city: and slew five and twenty thousand of them that were within. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 29 From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 30 But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that they were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their adversity they had treated them with humanity: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 31 They gave them thanks, exhorting them to be still friendly to their nation, and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks being at hand. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 32 And after Pentecost they marched against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 33 And he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 34 And when they had joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews were slain. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 35 But Dositheus, a horseman, one of Bacenor's band, a valiant man, took hold of Gorgias: and when he would have taken him alive, a certain horseman of the Thracians came upon him, and cut off his shoulder: and so Gorgias escaped to Maresa. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 36 But when they that were with Esdrin had fought long, and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to be their helper, and leader of the battle: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 37 Then beginning in his own language, and singing hymns with a loud voice, he put Gorgias's soldiers to flight. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 38 So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the same place. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 39 And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 40 And they found under the coats of the slain, some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 41 Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 42 And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 43 And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 44 (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,) +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 45 And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 12 46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 1 In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas understood that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 2 And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 3 Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 4 But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 5 Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 6 From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 7 And by such a law it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of the law, was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 8 And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many sins against the altar of God, the fire and ashes of which were holy: he was condemned to die in ashes. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 9 But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 10 Which when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call upon the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he would help them: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 11 Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 12 So when they had all done this together, and had craved mercy of the Lord with weeping and fasting, lying prostrate on the ground for three days continually, Judas exhorted them to make themselves ready. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 13 But he, with the ancients, determined before the king should bring his army into Judea, and make himself master of the city, to go out, and to commit the event of the thing to the judgment of the Lord. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 14 So committing all to God, the Creator of the world, and having exhorted his people to fight manfully, and to stand up even to death for the laws, the temple, the city, their country, and citizens: he placed his army about Modin. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 15 And having given his company for a watchword, The victory of God, with most valiant chosen young men, he set upon the king's quarter by night, and slew four thousand men in the camp, and the greatest of the elephants, with them that had been upon him, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 16 And having filled the camp of the enemies with exceeding great fear and tumult, they went off with good success. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 17 Now this was done at the break of day, by the protection and help of the Lord. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 18 But the king having taken a taste of the hardiness of the Jews, attempted to take the strong places by policy: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 19 And he marched with his army to Bethsura, which was a strong hold of the Jews: but he was repulsed, he failed, he lost his men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 20 Now Judas sent necessaries to them that were within +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 21 But Rhodocus, one of the Jews' army, disclosed the secrets to the enemies, so he was sought out, and taken up, and put in prison. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 22 Again the king treated with them that were in Bethsura: gave his right hand: took theirs: and went away. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 23 He fought with Judas: and was overcome. And when he understood that Philip, who had been left over the affairs, had rebelled at Antioch, he was in a consternation of mind, and entreating the Jews, and yielding to them, he swore to all things that seemed reasonable, and, being reconciled, offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and left gifts. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 24 He embraced Machabeus, and made him governor and prince from Ptolemais unto the Gerrenians. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 25 But when he was come to Ptolemais, the men of that city were much displeased with the conditions of the peace, being angry for fear they should break the covenant. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 13 26 Then Lysias went up to the judgment seat, and set forth the reason, and appeased the people, and returned to Antioch: and thus matters went with regard to the king's coming and his return. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 1 But after the space of three years Judas, and they that were with him, understood that Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, was come up with a great power, and a navy by the haven of Tripolis, to places proper for his purpose, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 2 And had made himself master of the countries against Antiochus, and his general, Lysias. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 3 Now one Alcimus, who had been chief priest, but had wilfully defiled himself in the time of mingling with the heathens, seeing that there was no safety for him, nor access to the altar, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 4 Came to king Demetrius in the year one hundred and fifty, presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and besides these, some boughs that seemed to belong to the temple. And that day indeed he held his peace. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 5 But having gotten a convenient time to further his madness, being called to counsel by Demetrius, and asked what the Jews relied upon, and what were their counsels, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 6 He answered thereunto: They among the Jews that are called Assideans, of whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise seditions, and will not suffer the realm to be in peace. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 7 For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 8 Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 9 Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according to thy humanity which is known to all men. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 10 For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state should be quiet. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 11 Now when this man had spoken to this effect the rest also of the king's friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against him. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 12 And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants, governor into Judea: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 13 Giving him in charge, to take Judas himself: and disperse all them that were with him, and to make Alcimus the high priest of the great temple. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 14 Then the Gentiles who had fled out of Judea, from Judas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the miseries and calamities of the Jews to be the welfare of their affairs. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 15 Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor's coming, and that the nations were assembled against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him who chose his people to keep them for ever, and who protected his portion by evident signs. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 16 Then at the commandment of their captain, they forthwith removed from the place where they were, and went to the town of Dessau, to meet them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 17 Now Simon, the brother of Judas, had joined battle with Nicanor: but was frightened with the sudden coming of the adversaries. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 18 Nevertheless Nicanor hearing of the valour of Judas's companions, and the greatness of courage, with which they fought for their country, was afraid to try the matter by the sword. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 19 Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotius and Matthias before to present and receive the right hands. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 20 And when there had been a consultation thereupon, and the captain had acquainted the multitude with it, they were all of one mind to consent to covenants. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 21 So they appointed a day upon which they might come together by themselves: and seats were brought out, and set for each one. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 22 But Judas ordered armed men to be ready in convenient places, lest some mischief might be suddenly practised by the enemies: so they made an agreeable conference. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 23 And Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no wrong, but sent away the flocks of the multitudes that had been gathered together. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 24 And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well affected to the man. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 25 And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he married: he lived quietly, and they lived in common. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 26 But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the covenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had assented to the foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a traitor to the kingdom, his successor. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 27 Then the king, being in a rage, and provoked with this man's wicked accusation, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was greatly displeased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him nevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 28 When this was known, Nicanor was in a consternation, and took it grievously that he should make void the articles that were agreed upon, having received no injury from the man. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 29 But because he could not oppose the king, he watched an opportunity to comply with the orders +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 30 But when Machabeus perceived that Nicanor was more stern to him, and that when they met together as usual he behaved himself in a rough manner; and was sensible that this rough behaviour came not of good, he gathered together a few of his men, and hid himself from Nicanor. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 31 But he finding himself notably prevented by the man, came to the great and holy temple: and commanded the priests that were offering the accustomed sacrifices, to deliver him the man. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 32 And when they swore unto him, that they knew not where the man was whom he sought, he stretched out his hand to the temple, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 33 And swore, saying: Unless you deliver Judas prisoner to me, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and will beat down the altar, and I will dedicate this temple to Bacchus. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 34 And when he had spoken thus, he departed. But the priests stretching forth their hands to heaven, called upon him that was ever the defender of their nation, saying in this manner: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 35 Thou, O Lord of all things, who wantest nothing, wast pleased that the temple of thy habitation should be amongst us. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 36 Therefore now, O Lord, the holy of all holies, keep this house for ever undefiled, which was lately cleansed. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 37 Now Razias, one of the ancients of Jerusalem, was accused to Nicanor, a man that was a lover of the city, and of good report, who for his kindness was called the father of the Jews. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 38 This man, for a long time, had held fast his purpose of keeping himself pure in the Jews' religion, and was ready to expose his body and life, that he might persevere therein. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 39 So Nicanor being willing to declare the hatred that he bore the Jews, sent five hundred soldiers to take him. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 40 For he thought by ensnaring him to hurt the Jews very much. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 41 Now as the multitude sought to rush into his house, and to break open the door, and to set fire to it, when he was ready to be taken, he struck himself with his sword: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 42 Choosing to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the wicked, and to suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 43 But whereas through haste he missed of giving a sure wound, and the crowd was breaking into the doors, he ran boldly to the wall, and manfully threw himself down to the crowd: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 44 But they quickly making room for his fall, he came upon the midst of the neck. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 45 And as he had yet breath in him, being inflamed in mind, he arose: and while his blood ran down with a great stream, and he was grievously wounded, he ran through the crowd: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 14 46 And standing upon a steep rock, when he was now almost without blood, grasping his bowels, with both hands he cast them upon the throng, calling upon the Lord of life and spirit, to restore these to him again: and so he departed this life. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 1 But when Nicanor understood that Judas was in the places of Samaria, he purposed to set upon him with all violence, on the sabbath day. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 2 And when the Jews that were constrained to follow him, said: Do not act so fiercely and barbarously, but give honour to the day that is sanctified: and reverence him that beholdeth all things: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 3 That unhappy man asked, if there were a mighty One in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 4 And when they answered: There is the living Lord himself in heaven, the mighty One, that commanded the seventh day to be kept. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 5 Then he said: And I am mighty upon the earth, and I command to take arms, and to do the king's business. Nevertheless he prevailed not to accomplish his design. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 6 So Nicanor being puffed up with exceeding great pride, thought to set up a public monument of his victory over Judas. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 7 But Machabeus ever trusted with all hope that God would help them. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 8 And he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the nations, but to remember the help they had before received from heaven, and now to hope for victory from the Almighty. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 9 And speaking to them out of the law, and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles they had fought before, he made them more cheerful: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 10 Then after he had encouraged them, he shewed withal the falsehood of the Gentiles, and their breach of oaths. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 11 So he armed every one of them, not with defence of shield and spear, but with very good speeches, and exhortations, and told them a dream worthy to be believed, whereby he rejoiced them all. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 12 Now the vision was in this manner. Onias, who had been high priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in his looks, gentle in his manners, and graceful in speech, and who from a child was exercised in virtues holding up his hands, prayed for all the people of the Jews: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 13 After this there appeared also another man, admirable for age, and glory, and environed with great beauty and majesty: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 14 Then Onias answering, said: This is a lover of his brethren, and of the people of Israel: this is he that prayeth much for the people, and for all the holy city, Jeremias, the prophet of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 15 Whereupon Jeremias stretched forth his right hand, and gave to Judas a sword of gold, saying: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 16 Take this holy sword, a gift from God, wherewith thou shalt overthrow the adversaries of my people Israel. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 17 Thus being exhorted with the words of Judas, which were very good, and proper to stir up the courage, and strengthen the hearts of the young men, they resolved to fight, and to set upon them manfully: that valour might decide the matter, because the holy city, and the temple were in danger. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 18 For their concern was less for their wives, and children, and for their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal fear was for the holiness of the temple. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 19 And they also that were in the city, had no little concern for them that were to be engaged in battle. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 20 And now when all expected what judgment would be given, and the enemies were at hand, and the army was set in array, the beasts and the horsemen ranged in convenient places, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 21 Machabeus considering the coming of the multitude, and the divers preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretching out his hands to heaven, called upon the Lord, that worketh wonders, who giveth victory to them that are worthy, not according to the power of their arms, but according as it seemeth good to him. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 22 And in his prayer he said after this manner: Thou, O Lord, who didst send thy angel in the time of Ezechias, king of Juda, and didst kill a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the army of Sennacherib: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 23 Send now also, O Lord of heaven, thy good angel before us, for the fear and dread of the greatness of thy arm, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 24 That they may be afraid, who come with blasphemy against thy holy people. And thus he concluded his prayer. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 25 But Nicanor, and they that were with him came forward, with trumpets and songs. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 26 But Judas, and they that were with him, encountered them, calling upon God by prayers: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 27 So fighting with their hands, but praying to the Lord with their hearts, they slew no less than five and thirty thousand, being greatly cheered with the presence of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 28 And when the battle was over, and they were returning with joy, they understood that Nicanor was slain in his armour. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 29 Then making a shout, and a great noise, they blessed the Almighty Lord in their own language. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 30 And Judas, who was altogether ready, in body and mind, to die for his countrymen, commanded that Nicanor's head, and his hand, with the shoulder, should be cut off, and carried to Jerusalem. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 31 And when he was come thither, having called together his countrymen, and the priests to the altar, he sent also for them that were in the castle, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 32 And shewing them the head of Nicanor, and the wicked hand, which he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the Almighty God, +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 33 He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor should be cut out, and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 34 Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 35 And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 36 And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity: +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 37 But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, called in the Syrian language, the day before Mardochias' day. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 38 So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my narration. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 39 Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me. +2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 40 For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the speech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers. But here it shall be ended. diff --git a/internal/bible/corpora/vul.tsv b/internal/bible/corpora/vul.tsv index fed7830..93b0d20 100644 --- a/internal/bible/corpora/vul.tsv +++ b/internal/bible/corpora/vul.tsv @@ -32919,3 +32919,2891 @@ Revelation Rev 68 22 18 Contestor enim omni audienti verba prophetiae libri huju Revelation Rev 68 22 19 Et si quis diminuerit de verbis libri prophetiae hujus, auferet Deus partem ejus de libro vitae, et de civitate sancta, et de his quae scripta sunt in libro isto : Revelation Rev 68 22 20 dicit qui testimonium perhibet istorum. Etiam venio cito : amen. Veni, Domine Jesu. Revelation Rev 68 22 21 Gratia Domini nostri Jesu Christi cum omnibus vobis. Amen. +Tobit Tob 17 1 1 Tobias ex tribu et civitate Nephthali (quæ est in superioribus Galilææ supra Naasson, post viam quæ ducit ad occidentem, in sinistro habens civitatem Sephet) +Tobit Tob 17 1 2 cum captus esset in diebus Salmanasar regis Assyriorum, in captivitate tamen positus, viam veritatis non deseruit, +Tobit Tob 17 1 3 ita ut omnia quæ habere poterat, quotidie concaptivis fratribus, qui erant ex ejus genere, impertiret. +Tobit Tob 17 1 4 Cumque esset junior omnibus in tribu Nephthali, nihil tamen puerile gessit in opere. +Tobit Tob 17 1 5 Denique, cum irent omnes ad vitulos aureos quos Jeroboam fecerat rex Israël, hic solus fugiebat consortia omnium. +Tobit Tob 17 1 6 Sed pergebat in Jerusalem ad templum Domini, et ibi adorabat Dominum Deum Israël, omnia primitiva sua et decimas suas fideliter offerens, +Tobit Tob 17 1 7 ita ut in tertio anno proselytis et advenis ministraret omnem decimationem. +Tobit Tob 17 1 8 Hæc et his similia secundum legem Dei puerulus observabat. +Tobit Tob 17 1 9 Cum vero factus esset vir, accepit uxorem Annam de tribu sua, genuitque ex ea filium, nomen suum imponens ei : +Tobit Tob 17 1 10 quem ab infantia timere Deum docuit, et abstinere ab omni peccato. +Tobit Tob 17 1 11 Igitur, cum per captivitatem devenisset cum uxore sua et filio in civitatem Niniven cum omni tribu sua +Tobit Tob 17 1 12 (cum omnes ederent ex cibis gentilium), iste custodivit animam suam, et numquam contaminatus est in escis eorum. +Tobit Tob 17 1 13 Et quoniam memor fuit Domini in toto corde suo, dedit illi Deus gratiam in conspectu Salmanasar regis, +Tobit Tob 17 1 14 et dedit illi potestatem quocumque vellet ire, habens libertatem quæcumque facere voluisset. +Tobit Tob 17 1 15 Pergebat ergo ad omnes qui erant in captivitate, et monita salutis dabat eis. +Tobit Tob 17 1 16 Cum autem venisset in Rages civitatem Medorum, et ex his quibus honoratus fuerat a rege, habuisset decem talenta argenti : +Tobit Tob 17 1 17 et cum in multa turba generis sui Gabelum egentem videret, qui erat ex tribu ejus, sub chirographo dedit illi memoratum pondus argenti. +Tobit Tob 17 1 18 Post multum vero temporis, mortuo Salmanasar rege, cum regnaret Sennacherib filius ejus pro eo, et filios Israël exosos haberet in conspectu suo, +Tobit Tob 17 1 19 Tobias quotidie pergebat per omnem cognationem suam, et consolabatur eos, dividebatque unicuique, prout poterat, de facultatibus suis : +Tobit Tob 17 1 20 esurientes alebat, nudisque vestimenta præbebat, et mortuis atque occisis sepulturam sollicitus exhibebat. +Tobit Tob 17 1 21 Denique cum reversus esset rex Sennacherib, fugiens a Judæa plagam quam circa eum fecerat Deus propter blasphemiam suam, et iratus multos occideret ex filiis Israël, Tobias sepeliebat corpora eorum. +Tobit Tob 17 1 22 At ubi nuntiatum est regi, jussit eum occidi, et tulit omnem substantiam ejus. +Tobit Tob 17 1 23 Tobias vero cum filio suo et cum uxore suo fugiens, nudus latuit, quia multi diligebant eum. +Tobit Tob 17 1 24 Post dies vero quadraginta quinque occiderunt regem filii ipsius, +Tobit Tob 17 1 25 et reversus est Tobias in domum suam, omnisque facultas ejus restituta est ei. +Tobit Tob 17 2 1 Post hæc vero, cum esset dies festus Domini, et factum esset prandium bonum in domo Tobiæ, +Tobit Tob 17 2 2 dixit filio suo : Vade, et adduc aliquos de tribu nostra, timentes Deum, ut epulentur nobiscum. +Tobit Tob 17 2 3 Cumque abiisset, reversus nuntiavit ei unum ex filiis Israël jugulatum jacere in platea. Statimque exiliens de accubitu suo, relinquens prandium, jejunus pervenit ad corpus : +Tobit Tob 17 2 4 tollensque illud portavit ad domum suam occulte, ut dum sol occubuisset, caute sepeliret eum. +Tobit Tob 17 2 5 Cumque occultasset corpus, manducavit panem cum luctu et tremore, +Tobit Tob 17 2 6 memorans illum sermonem, quem dixit Dominus per Amos prophetam : Dies festi vestri convertentur in lamentationem et luctum. +Tobit Tob 17 2 7 Cum vero sol occubuisset, abiit, et sepelivit eum. +Tobit Tob 17 2 8 Arguebant autem eum omnes proximi ejus, dicentes : Jam hujus rei causa interfici jussus es, et vix effugisti mortis imperium, et iterum sepelis mortuos ? +Tobit Tob 17 2 9 Sed Tobias plus timens Deum quam regem, rapiebat corpora occisorum, et occultabat in domo sua, et mediis noctibus sepeliebat ea. +Tobit Tob 17 2 10 Contigit autem ut quadam die fatigatus a sepultura, veniens in domum suam, jactasset se juxta parietem, et obdormisset, +Tobit Tob 17 2 11 et ex nido hirundinum dormienti illi calida stercora inciderent super oculos ejus, fieretque cæcus. +Tobit Tob 17 2 12 Hanc autem tentationem ideo permisit Dominus evenire illi, ut posteris daretur exemplum patientiæ ejus, sicut et sancti Job. +Tobit Tob 17 2 13 Nam cum ab infantia sua semper Deum timuerit, et mandata ejus custodierit, non est contristatus contra Deum quod plaga cæcitatis evenerit ei, +Tobit Tob 17 2 14 sed immobilis in Dei timore permansit, agens gratias Deo omnibus diebus vitæ suæ. +Tobit Tob 17 2 15 Nam sicut beato Job insultabant reges, ita isti parentes et cognati ejus irridebant vitam ejus, dicentes : +Tobit Tob 17 2 16 Ubi est spes tua, pro qua eleemosynas et sepulturas faciebas ? +Tobit Tob 17 2 17 Tobias vero increpabat eos, dicens : Nolite ita loqui : +Tobit Tob 17 2 18 quoniam filii sanctorum sumus, et vitam illam expectamus, quam Deus daturus est his qui fidem suam numquam mutant ab eo. +Tobit Tob 17 2 19 Anna vero uxor ejus ibat ad opus textrinum quotidie, et de labore manuum suarum victum quem consequi poterat, deferebat. +Tobit Tob 17 2 20 Unde factum est ut hædum caprarum accipiens detulisset domi : +Tobit Tob 17 2 21 cujus cum vocem balantis vir ejus audisset, dixit : Videte, ne forte furtivus sit : reddite eum dominis suis, quia non licet nobis aut edere ex furto aliquid, aut contingere. +Tobit Tob 17 2 22 Ad hæc uxor ejus irata respondit : Manifeste vana facta est spes tua, et eleemosynæ tuæ modo apparuerunt. +Tobit Tob 17 2 23 Atque his et aliis hujuscemodi verbis exprobrabat ei. +Tobit Tob 17 3 1 Tunc Tobias ingemuit, et cœpit orare cum lacrimis, +Tobit Tob 17 3 2 dicens : Justus es, Domine, et omnia judicia tua justa sunt, et omnes viæ tuæ, misericordia, et veritas, et judicium. +Tobit Tob 17 3 3 Et nunc Domine, memor esto mei, et ne vindictam sumas de peccatis meis, neque reminiscaris delicta mea, vel parentum meorum. +Tobit Tob 17 3 4 Quoniam non obedivimus præceptis tuis, ideo traditi sumus in direptionem, et captivitatem, et mortem, et in fabulam, et in improperium omnibus nationibus in quibus dispersisti nos. +Tobit Tob 17 3 5 Et nunc Domine, magna judicia tua, quia non egimus secundum præcepta tua, et non ambulavimus sinceriter coram te. +Tobit Tob 17 3 6 Et nunc Domine, secundum voluntatem tuam fac mecum, et præcipe in pace recipi spiritum meum : expedit enim mihi mori magis quam vivere. +Tobit Tob 17 3 7 Eadem itaque die, contigit ut Sara filia Raguelis in Rages civitate Medorum et ipsa audiret improperium ab una ex ancillis patris sui, +Tobit Tob 17 3 8 quoniam tradita fuerat septem viris, et dæmonium nomine Asmodæus occiderat eos, mox ut ingressi fuissent ad eam. +Tobit Tob 17 3 9 Ergo cum pro culpa sua increparet puellam, respondit ei, dicens : Amplius ex te non videamus filium aut filiam super terram, interfectrix virorum tuorum. +Tobit Tob 17 3 10 Numquid et occidere me vis, sicut jam occidisti septem viros ? Ad hanc vocem perrexit in superius cubiculum domus suæ : et tribus diebus, et tribus noctibus non manducavit, neque bibit : +Tobit Tob 17 3 11 sed in oratione persistens cum lacrimis deprecabatur Deum, ut ab isto improperio liberaret eam. +Tobit Tob 17 3 12 Factum est autem die tertia, dum compleret orationem, benedicens Dominum +Tobit Tob 17 3 13 dixit : Benedictum est nomen tuum, Deus patrum nostrorum : qui cum iratus fueris, misericordiam facies, et in tempore tribulationis peccata dimittis his qui invocant te. +Tobit Tob 17 3 14 Ad te, Domine, faciem meam converto ; ad te oculos meos dirigo. +Tobit Tob 17 3 15 Peto, Domine, ut de vinculo improperii hujus absolvas me, aut certe desuper terram eripias me. +Tobit Tob 17 3 16 Tu scis, Domine, quia numquam concupivi virum, et mundam servavi animam meam ab omni concupiscentia. +Tobit Tob 17 3 17 Numquam cum ludentibus miscui me, neque cum his qui in levitate ambulant, participem me præbui. +Tobit Tob 17 3 18 Virum autem cum timore tuo, non cum libidine mea, consensi suscipere. +Tobit Tob 17 3 19 Et, aut ego indigna fui illis, aut illi forsitan me non fuerunt digni, quia forsitan viro alii conservasti me. +Tobit Tob 17 3 20 Non est enim in hominis potestate consilium tuum. +Tobit Tob 17 3 21 Hoc autem pro certo habet omnis qui te colit : quod vita ejus, si in probatione fuerit, coronabitur ; si autem in tribulatione fuerit, liberabitur ; et si in correptione fuerit, ad misericordiam tuam venire licebit. +Tobit Tob 17 3 22 Non enim delectaris in perditionibus nostris : quia post tempestatem tranquillum facis, et post lacrimationem et fletum, exultationem infundis. +Tobit Tob 17 3 23 Sit nomen tuum, Deus Israël, benedictum in sæcula. +Tobit Tob 17 3 24 In illo tempore exauditæ sunt preces amborum in conspectu gloriæ summi Dei : +Tobit Tob 17 3 25 et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Raphaël ut curaret eos ambos, quorum uno tempore sunt orationes in conspectu Domini recitatæ. +Tobit Tob 17 4 1 Igitur cum Tobias putaret orationem suam exaudiri ut mori potuisset, vocavit ad se Tobiam filium suum, +Tobit Tob 17 4 2 dixitque ei : Audi, fili mi, verba oris mei, et ea in corde tuo quasi fundamentum construe. +Tobit Tob 17 4 3 Cum acceperit Deus animam meam, corpus meum sepeli : et honorem habebis matri tuæ omnibus diebus vitæ ejus : +Tobit Tob 17 4 4 memor enim esse debes, quæ et quanta pericula passa sit propter te in utero suo. +Tobit Tob 17 4 5 Cum autem et ipsa compleverit tempus vitæ suæ, sepelias eam circa me. +Tobit Tob 17 4 6 Omnibus autem diebus vitæ tuæ in mente habeto Deum : et cave ne aliquando peccato consentias, et prætermittas præcepta Domini Dei nostri. +Tobit Tob 17 4 7 Ex substantia tua fac eleemosynam, et noli avertere faciem tuam ab ullo paupere : ita enim fiet ut nec a te avertatur facies Domini. +Tobit Tob 17 4 8 Quomodo potueris, ita esto misericors. +Tobit Tob 17 4 9 Si multum tibi fuerit, abundanter tribue : si exiguum tibi fuerit, etiam exiguum libenter impertiri stude. +Tobit Tob 17 4 10 Præmium enim bonum tibi thesaurizas in die necessitatis : +Tobit Tob 17 4 11 quoniam eleemosyna ab omni peccato et a morte liberat, et non patietur animam ire in tenebras. +Tobit Tob 17 4 12 Fiducia magna erit coram summo Deo, eleemosyna omnibus facientibus eam. +Tobit Tob 17 4 13 Attende tibi, fili mi, ab omni fornicatione, et præter uxorem tuam numquam patiaris crimen scire. +Tobit Tob 17 4 14 Superbiam numquam in tuo sensu aut in tuo verbo dominari permittas : in ipsa enim initium sumpsit omnis perditio. +Tobit Tob 17 4 15 Quicumque tibi aliquid operatus fuerit, statim ei mercedem restitue, et merces mercenarii tui apud te omnino non remaneat. +Tobit Tob 17 4 16 Quod ab alio oderis fieri tibi, vide ne tu aliquando alteri facias. +Tobit Tob 17 4 17 Panem tuum cum esurientibus et egenis comede, et de vestimentis tuis nudos tege. +Tobit Tob 17 4 18 Panem tuum et vinum tuum super sepulturam justi constitue, et noli ex eo manducare et bibere cum peccatoribus. +Tobit Tob 17 4 19 Consilium semper a sapiente perquire. +Tobit Tob 17 4 20 Omni tempore benedic Deum : et pete ab eo ut vias tuas dirigat, et omnia consilia tua in ipso permaneant. +Tobit Tob 17 4 21 Indico etiam tibi, fili mi, dedisse me decem talenta argenti, dum adhuc infantulus esses, Gabelo, in Rages civitate Medorum, et chirographum ejus apud me habeo : +Tobit Tob 17 4 22 et ideo perquire quomodo ad eum pervenias, et recipias ab eo supra memoratum pondus argenti, et restituas ei chirographum suum. +Tobit Tob 17 4 23 Noli timere, fili mi : pauperem quidem vitam gerimus, sed multa bona habebimus si timuerimus Deum, et recesserimus ab omni peccato, et fecerimus bene. +Tobit Tob 17 5 1 Tunc respondit Tobias patri suo, et dixit : Omnia quæcumque præcepisti mihi faciam, pater. +Tobit Tob 17 5 2 Quomodo autem pecuniam hanc requiram, ignoro : ille me nescit, et ego eum ignoro : quod signum dabo ei ? sed neque viam per quam pergatur illuc aliquando cognovi. +Tobit Tob 17 5 3 Tunc pater suus respondit illi, et dixit : Chirographum quidem illius penes me habeo : quod dum illi ostenderis, statim restituet. +Tobit Tob 17 5 4 Sed perge nunc, et inquire tibi aliquem fidelem virum, qui eat tecum salva mercede sua, ut dum adhuc vivo, recipias eam. +Tobit Tob 17 5 5 Tunc egressus Tobias, invenit juvenem splendidum stantem præcinctum, et quasi paratum ad ambulandum. +Tobit Tob 17 5 6 Et ignorans quod angelus Dei esset, salutavit eum, et dixit : Unde te habemus, bone juvenis ? +Tobit Tob 17 5 7 At ille respondit : Ex filiis Israël. Et Tobias dixit ei : Nosti viam quæ ducit in regionem Medorum ? +Tobit Tob 17 5 8 Cui respondit : Novi : et omnia itinera ejus frequenter ambulavi, et mansi apud Gabelum fratrem nostrum, qui moratur in Rages civitate Medorum, quæ posita est in monte Ecbatanis. +Tobit Tob 17 5 9 Cui Tobias ait : Sustine me obsecro, donec hæc ipsa nuntiem patri meo. +Tobit Tob 17 5 10 Tunc ingressus Tobias, indicavit universa hæc patri suo. Super quæ admiratus pater, rogavit ut introiret ad eum. +Tobit Tob 17 5 11 Ingressus itaque salutavit eum, et dixit : Gaudium tibi sit semper. +Tobit Tob 17 5 12 Et ait Tobias : Quale gaudium mihi erit, qui in tenebris sedeo, et lumen cæli non video ? +Tobit Tob 17 5 13 Cui ait juvenis : Forti animo esto : in proximo est ut a Deo cureris. +Tobit Tob 17 5 14 Dixit itaque illi Tobias : Numquid poteris perducere filium meum ad Gabelum in Rages civitatem Medorum ? et cum redieris, restituam tibi mercedem tuam. +Tobit Tob 17 5 15 Et dixit ei angelus : Ego ducam, et reducam eum ad te. +Tobit Tob 17 5 16 Cui Tobias respondit : Rogo te, indica mihi de qua domo aut de qua tribu es tu. +Tobit Tob 17 5 17 Cui Raphaël angelus dixit : Genus quæris mercenarii, an ipsum mercenarium qui cum filio tuo eat ? +Tobit Tob 17 5 18 sed ne forte sollicitum te reddam, ego sum Azarias Ananiæ magni filius. +Tobit Tob 17 5 19 Et Tobias respondit : Ex magno genere es tu. Sed peto ne irascaris quod voluerim cognoscere genus tuum. +Tobit Tob 17 5 20 Dixit autem illi angelus : Ego sanum ducam, et sanum tibi reducam filium tuum. +Tobit Tob 17 5 21 Respondens autem Tobias, ait : Bene ambuletis, et sit Deus in itinere vestro, et angelus ejus comitetur vobiscum. +Tobit Tob 17 5 22 Tunc paratis omnibus quæ erant in via portanda, fecit Tobias vale patri suo et matri suæ, et ambulaverunt ambo simul. +Tobit Tob 17 5 23 Cumque profecti essent, cœpit mater ejus flere, et dicere : Baculum senectutis nostræ tulisti, et transmisisti a nobis. +Tobit Tob 17 5 24 Numquam fuisset ipsa pecunia, pro qua misisti eum : +Tobit Tob 17 5 25 sufficiebat enim nobis paupertas nostra, ut divitias computaremus hoc, quod videbamus filium nostrum. +Tobit Tob 17 5 26 Dixitque ei Tobias : Noli flere : salvus perveniet filius noster, et salvus revertetur ad nos, et oculi tui videbunt illum. +Tobit Tob 17 5 27 Credo enim quod angelus Dei bonus comitetur ei, et bene disponat omnia quæ circa eum geruntur, ita ut cum gaudio revertatur ad nos. +Tobit Tob 17 5 28 Ad hanc vocem cessavit mater ejus flere, et tacuit. +Tobit Tob 17 6 1 Profectus est autem Tobias, et canis secutus est eum, et mansit prima mansione juxta fluvium Tigris. +Tobit Tob 17 6 2 Et exivit ut lavaret pedes suos, et ecce piscis immanis exivit ad devorandum eum. +Tobit Tob 17 6 3 Quem expavescens Tobias clamavit voce magna, dicens : Domine, invadit me. +Tobit Tob 17 6 4 Et dixit ei angelus : Apprehende branchiam ejus, et trahe eum ad te. Quod cum fecisset, attraxit eum in siccum, et palpitare cœpit ante pedes ejus. +Tobit Tob 17 6 5 Tunc dixit ei angelus : Exentera hunc piscem, et cor ejus, et fel, et jecur repone tibi : sunt enim hæc necessaria ad medicamenta utiliter. +Tobit Tob 17 6 6 Quod cum fecisset, assavit carnes ejus, et secum tulerunt in via : cetera salierunt, quæ sufficerent eis, quousque pervenirent in Rages civitatem Medorum. +Tobit Tob 17 6 7 Tunc interrogavit Tobias angelum, et dixit ei : Obsecro te, Azaria frater, ut dicas mihi quod remedium habebunt ista, quæ de pisce servare jussisti ? +Tobit Tob 17 6 8 Et respondens angelus, dixit ei : Cordis ejus particulam si super carbones ponas, fumus ejus extricat omne genus dæmoniorum sive a viro, sive a muliere, ita ut ultra non accedat ad eos. +Tobit Tob 17 6 9 Et fel valet ad ungendos oculos in quibus fuerit albugo, et sanabuntur. +Tobit Tob 17 6 10 Et dixit ei Tobias : Ubi vis ut maneamus ? +Tobit Tob 17 6 11 Respondensque angelus, ait : Est hic Raguel nomine, vir propinquus de tribu tua, et hic habet filiam nomine Saram, sed neque masculum neque feminam ullam habet aliam præter eam. +Tobit Tob 17 6 12 Tibi debetur omnis substantia ejus, et oportet eam te accipere conjugem. +Tobit Tob 17 6 13 Pete ergo eam a patre ejus, et dabit tibi eam in uxorem. +Tobit Tob 17 6 14 Tunc respondit Tobias, et dixit : Audio quia tradita est septem viris, et mortui sunt : sed et hoc audivi, quia dæmonium occidit illos. +Tobit Tob 17 6 15 Timeo ergo, ne forte et mihi hæc eveniant : et cum sim unicus parentibus meis, deponam senectutem illorum cum tristitia ad inferos. +Tobit Tob 17 6 16 Tunc angelus Raphaël dixit ei : Audi me, et ostendam tibi qui sunt, quibus prævalere potest dæmonium. +Tobit Tob 17 6 17 Hi namque qui conjugium ita suscipiunt, ut Deum a se et a sua mente excludant, et suæ libidini ita vacent sicut equus et mulus quibus non est intellectus : habet potestatem dæmonium super eos. +Tobit Tob 17 6 18 Tu autem cum acceperis eam, ingressus cubiculum, per tres dies continens esto ab ea, et nihil aliud nisi orationibus vacabis cum ea. +Tobit Tob 17 6 19 Ipsa autem nocte, incenso jecore piscis, fugabitur dæmonium. +Tobit Tob 17 6 20 Secunda vero nocte in copulatione sanctorum patriarcharum admitteris. +Tobit Tob 17 6 21 Tertia autem nocte, benedictionem consequeris, ut filii ex vobis procreentur incolumes. +Tobit Tob 17 6 22 Transacta autem tertia nocte, accipies virginem cum timore Domini, amore filiorum magis quam libidine ductus, ut in semine Abrahæ benedictionem in filiis consequaris. +Tobit Tob 17 7 1 Ingressi sunt autem ad Raguelem, et suscepit eos Raguel cum gaudio. +Tobit Tob 17 7 2 Intuensque Tobiam Raguel, dixit Annæ uxori suæ : Quam similis est juvenis iste consobrino meo ! +Tobit Tob 17 7 3 Et cum hæc dixisset, ait : Unde estis juvenes fratres nostri ? At illi dixerunt : Ex tribu Nephthali sumus, ex captivitate Ninive. +Tobit Tob 17 7 4 Dixitque illis Raguel : Nostis Tobiam fratrem meum ? Qui dixerunt : Novimus. +Tobit Tob 17 7 5 Cumque multa bona loqueretur de eo, dixit angelus ad Raguelem : Tobias, de quo interrogas, pater istius est. +Tobit Tob 17 7 6 Et misit se Raguel, et cum lacrimis osculatus est eum, et plorans supra collum ejus +Tobit Tob 17 7 7 dixit : Benedictio sit tibi, fili mi, quia boni et optimi viri filius es. +Tobit Tob 17 7 8 Et Anna uxor ejus, et Sara ipsorum filia, lacrimatæ sunt. +Tobit Tob 17 7 9 Postquam autem locuti sunt, præcepit Raguel occidi arietem, et parari convivium. Cumque hortaretur eos discumbere ad prandium, +Tobit Tob 17 7 10 Tobias dixit : Hic ego hodie non manducabo neque bibam, nisi prius petitionem meam confirmes, et promittas mihi dare Saram filiam tuam. +Tobit Tob 17 7 11 Quo audito verbo Raguel expavit, sciens quid evenerit illis septem viris qui ingressi sunt ad eam : et timere cœpit ne forte et hunc similiter contingeret. Et cum nutaret, et non daret petenti ullum responsum, +Tobit Tob 17 7 12 dixit ei angelus : Noli timere dare eam isti, quoniam huic timenti Deum debetur conjux filia tua : propterea alius non potuit habere illam. +Tobit Tob 17 7 13 Tunc dixit Raguel : Non dubito quod Deus preces et lacrimas meas in conspectu suo admiserit. +Tobit Tob 17 7 14 Et credo quoniam ideo fecit vos venire ad me, ut ista conjungeretur cognationi suæ secundum legem Moysi : et nunc noli dubium gerere quod tibi eam tradam. +Tobit Tob 17 7 15 Et apprehendens dexteram filiæ suæ, dexteræ Tobiæ tradidit, dicens : Deus Abraham, et Deus Isaac, et Deus Jacob vobiscum sit, et ipse conjungat vos, impleatque benedictionem suam in vobis. +Tobit Tob 17 7 16 Et accepta carta, fecerunt conscriptionem conjugii. +Tobit Tob 17 7 17 Et post hæc epulati sunt, benedicentes Deum. +Tobit Tob 17 7 18 Vocavitque Raguel ad se Annam uxorem suam, et præcepit ei ut præpararet alterum cubiculum. +Tobit Tob 17 7 19 Et introduxit illuc Saram filiam suam, et lacrimata est. +Tobit Tob 17 7 20 Dixitque ei : Forti animo esto, filia mea : Dominus cæli det tibi gaudium pro tædio quod perpessa es. +Tobit Tob 17 8 1 Postquam vero cœnaverunt, introduxerunt juvenem ad eam. +Tobit Tob 17 8 2 Recordatus itaque Tobias sermonum angeli, protulit de cassidili suo partem jecoris, posuitque eam super carbones vivos. +Tobit Tob 17 8 3 Tunc Raphaël angelus apprehendit dæmonium, et religavit illud in deserto superioris Ægypti. +Tobit Tob 17 8 4 Tunc hortatus est virginem Tobias, dixitque ei : Sara, exsurge, et deprecemur Deum hodie, et cras, et secundum cras : quia his tribus noctibus Deo jungimur ; tertia autem transacta nocte, in nostro erimus conjugio. +Tobit Tob 17 8 5 Filii quippe sanctorum sumus, et non possumus ita conjungi sicut gentes quæ ignorant Deum. +Tobit Tob 17 8 6 Surgentes autem pariter, instanter orabant ambo simul, ut sanitas daretur eis. +Tobit Tob 17 8 7 Dixitque Tobias : Domine Deus patrum nostrorum, benedicant te cæli et terræ, mareque et fontes, et flumina, et omnes creaturæ tuæ quæ in eis sunt. +Tobit Tob 17 8 8 Tu fecisti Adam de limo terræ, dedistique ei adjutorium Hevam. +Tobit Tob 17 8 9 Et nunc Domine, tu scis quia non luxuriæ causa accipio sororem meam conjugem, sed sola posteritatis dilectione, in qua benedicatur nomen tuum in sæcula sæculorum. +Tobit Tob 17 8 10 Dixit quoque Sara : Miserere nobis Domine, miserere nobis, et consenescamus ambo pariter sani. +Tobit Tob 17 8 11 Et factum est circa pullorum cantum, accersiri jussit Raguel servos suos, et abierunt cum eo pariter ut foderent sepulchrum. +Tobit Tob 17 8 12 Dicebat enim : Ne forte simili modo evenerit ei, quo et ceteris illis septem viris qui sunt ingressi ad eam. +Tobit Tob 17 8 13 Cumque parassent fossam, reversus Raguel ad uxorem suam, dixit ei : +Tobit Tob 17 8 14 Mitte unam de ancillis tuis, et videat si mortuus est, ut sepeliam eum antequam illucescat dies. +Tobit Tob 17 8 15 At illa misit unam ex ancillis suis. Quæ ingressa cubiculum, reperit eos salvos et incolumes, secum pariter dormientes. +Tobit Tob 17 8 16 Et reversa nuntiavit bonum nuntium : et benedixerunt Dominum, Raguel videlicet et Anna uxor ejus, +Tobit Tob 17 8 17 et dixerunt : Benedicimus te, Domine Deus Israël, quia non contigit quemadmodum putabamus. +Tobit Tob 17 8 18 Fecisti enim nobiscum misericordiam tuam, et exclusisti a nobis inimicum persequentem nos. +Tobit Tob 17 8 19 Misertus es autem duobus unicis. Fac eos, Domine, plenius benedicere te, et sacrificium tibi laudis tuæ et suæ sanitatis offerre, ut cognoscat universitas gentium quia tu es Deus solus in universa terra. +Tobit Tob 17 8 20 Statimque præcepit servis suis Raguel ut replerent fossam quam fecerant priusquam elucesceret. +Tobit Tob 17 8 21 Uxori autem suæ dixit ut instrueret convivium, et præpararet omnia quæ in cibos erant iter agentibus necessaria. +Tobit Tob 17 8 22 Duas quoque pingues vaccas, et quatuor arietes, occidi fecit, et parari epulas omnibus vicinis suis, cunctisque amicis. +Tobit Tob 17 8 23 Et adjuravit Raguel Tobiam ut duas hebdomadas moraretur apud se. +Tobit Tob 17 8 24 De omnibus autem quæ possidebat Raguel, dimidiam partem dedit Tobiæ, et fecit scripturam, ut pars dimidia quæ supererat, post obitum eorum Tobiæ dominio deveniret. +Tobit Tob 17 9 1 Tunc vocavit Tobias angelum ad se, quem quidem hominem existimabat, dixitque ei : Azaria frater, peto ut auscultes verba mea. +Tobit Tob 17 9 2 Si meipsum tradam tibi servum, non ero condignus providentiæ tuæ : +Tobit Tob 17 9 3 tamen obsecro te ut assumas tibi animalia sive servitia, et vadas ad Gabelum in Rages civitatem Medorum, reddasque ei chirographum suum, et recipias ab eo pecuniam, et roges eum venire ad nuptias meas. +Tobit Tob 17 9 4 Scis enim ipse quoniam numerat pater meus dies, et si tardavero una die plus, contristatur anima ejus. +Tobit Tob 17 9 5 Et certe vides quomodo adjuravit me Raguel, cujus adjuramentum spernere non possum. +Tobit Tob 17 9 6 Tunc Raphaël assumens quatuor ex servis Raguelis, et duos camelos, in Rages civitatem Medorum perrexit : et inveniens Gabelum, reddidit ei chirographum suum, et recepit ab eo omnem pecuniam. +Tobit Tob 17 9 7 Indicavitque ei de Tobia filio Tobiæ omnia quæ gesta sunt, fecitque eum secum venire ad nuptias. +Tobit Tob 17 9 8 Cumque ingressus esset domum Raguelis, invenit Tobiam discumbentem : et exiliens, osculati sunt se invicem : et flevit Gabelus, benedixitque Deum, +Tobit Tob 17 9 9 et dixit : Benedicat te Deus Israël, quia filius es optimi viri et justi, et timentis Deum, et eleemosynas facientis : +Tobit Tob 17 9 10 et dicatur benedictio super uxorem tuam, et super parentes vestros, +Tobit Tob 17 9 11 et videatis filios vestros, et filios filiorum vestrorum, usque in tertiam et quartam generationem : et sit semen vestrum benedictum a Deo Israël, qui regnat in sæcula sæculorum. +Tobit Tob 17 9 12 Cumque omnes dixissent : Amen : accesserunt ad convivium : sed et cum timore Domini nuptiarum convivium exercebant. +Tobit Tob 17 10 1 Cum vero moras faceret Tobias, causa nuptiarum, sollicitus erat pater ejus Tobias, dicens : Putas quare moratur filius meus, aut quare detentus est ibi ? +Tobit Tob 17 10 2 Putasne Gabelus mortuus est, et nemo reddet illi pecuniam ? +Tobit Tob 17 10 3 Cœpit autem contristari nimis ipse, et Anna uxor ejus cum eo : et cœperunt ambo simul flere, eo quod die statuto minime reverteretur filius eorum ad eos. +Tobit Tob 17 10 4 Flebat igitur mater ejus irremediabilibus lacrimis, atque dicebat : Heu, heu me, fili mi ! ut quid te misimus peregrinari, lumen oculorum nostrorum, baculum senectutis nostræ, solatium vitæ nostræ, spem posteritatis nostræ ? +Tobit Tob 17 10 5 omnia simul in te uno habentes, te non debuimus dimittere a nobis. +Tobit Tob 17 10 6 Cui dicebat Tobias : Tace, et noli turbari : sanus est filius noster : satis fidelis est vir ille, cum quo misimus eum. +Tobit Tob 17 10 7 Illa autem nullo modo consolari poterat, sed quotidie exiliens circumspiciebat, et circuibat vias omnes per quas spes remeandi videbatur, ut procul videret eum, si fieri posset, venientem. +Tobit Tob 17 10 8 At vero Raguel dicebat ad generum suum : Mane hic, et ego mittam nuntium salutis de te ad Tobiam patrem tuum. +Tobit Tob 17 10 9 Cui Tobias ait : Ego novi quia pater meus et mater mea modo dies computant, et cruciatur spiritus eorum in ipsis. +Tobit Tob 17 10 10 Cumque verbis multis rogaret Raguel Tobiam, et ille eum nulla ratione vellet audire, tradidit ei Saram, et dimidiam partem omnis substantiæ suæ in pueris, in puellis, in pecudibus, in camelis, et in vaccis, et in pecunia multa : et salvum atque gaudentem dimisit eum a se, +Tobit Tob 17 10 11 dicens : Angelus Domini sanctus sit in itinere vestro, perducatque vos incolumes, et inveniatis omnia recte circa parentes vestros, et videant oculi mei filios vestros priusquam moriar. +Tobit Tob 17 10 12 Et apprehendentes parentes filiam suam, osculati sunt eam : et dimiserunt ire, +Tobit Tob 17 10 13 monentes eam honorare soceros, diligere maritum, regere familiam, gubernare domum, et seipsam irreprehensibilem exhibere. +Tobit Tob 17 11 1 Cumque reverterentur, pervenerunt ad Charan, quæ est in medio itinere contra Niniven, undecimo die. +Tobit Tob 17 11 2 Dixitque angelus : Tobia frater, scis quemadmodum reliquisti patrem tuum. +Tobit Tob 17 11 3 Si placet itaque tibi, præcedamus, et lento gradu sequantur iter nostrum familiæ, simul cum conjuge tua, et cum animalibus. +Tobit Tob 17 11 4 Cumque hoc placuisset ut irent, dixit Raphaël ad Tobiam : Tolle tecum ex felle piscis : erit enim necessarium. Tulit itaque Tobias ex felle illo, et abierunt. +Tobit Tob 17 11 5 Anna autem sedebat secus viam quotidie in supercilio montis, unde respicere poterat de longinquo. +Tobit Tob 17 11 6 Et dum ex eodem loco specularetur adventum ejus, vidit a longe, et illico agnovit venientem filium suum : currensque nuntiavit viro suo, dicens : Ecce venit filius tuus. +Tobit Tob 17 11 7 Dixitque Raphaël ad Tobiam : At ubi introieris domum tuam, statim adora Dominum Deum tuum : et gratias agens ei, accede ad patrem tuum, et osculare eum. +Tobit Tob 17 11 8 Statimque lini super oculos ejus ex felle isto piscis, quod portas tecum : scias enim quoniam mox aperientur oculi ejus, et videbit pater tuus lumen cæli, et in aspectu tuo gaudebit. +Tobit Tob 17 11 9 Tunc præcucurrit canis, qui simul fuerat in via : et quasi nuntius adveniens, blandimento suæ caudæ gaudebat. +Tobit Tob 17 11 10 Et consurgens cæcus pater ejus, cœpit offendens pedibus currere : et data manu puero, occurrit obviam filio suo. +Tobit Tob 17 11 11 Et suscipiens osculatus est eum cum uxore sua, et cœperunt ambo flere præ gaudio. +Tobit Tob 17 11 12 Cumque adorassent Deum, et gratias egissent, consederunt. +Tobit Tob 17 11 13 Tunc sumens Tobias de felle piscis, linivit oculos patris sui. +Tobit Tob 17 11 14 Et sustinuit quasi dimidiam fere horam : et cœpit albugo ex oculis ejus, quasi membrana ovi, egredi. +Tobit Tob 17 11 15 Quam apprehendens Tobias, traxit ab oculis ejus : statimque visum recepit. +Tobit Tob 17 11 16 Et glorificabant Deum, ipse videlicet et uxor ejus, et omnes qui sciebant eum. +Tobit Tob 17 11 17 Dicebatque Tobias : Benedico te, Domine Deus Israël, quia tu castigasti me, et tu salvasti me : et ecce ego video Tobiam filium meum. +Tobit Tob 17 11 18 Ingressa est etiam post septem dies Sara uxor filii ejus et omnis familia sana, et pecora, et cameli, et pecunia multa uxoris ; sed et illa pecunia, quam receperat a Gabelo. +Tobit Tob 17 11 19 Et narravit parentibus suis omnia beneficia Dei, quæ fecisset circa eum per hominem qui eum duxerat. +Tobit Tob 17 11 20 Veneruntque Achior et Nabath consobrini Tobiæ gaudentes ad Tobiam, et congratulantes ei de omnibus bonis quæ circa illum ostenderat Deus. +Tobit Tob 17 11 21 Et per septem dies epulantes, omnes cum gaudio magno gavisi sunt. +Tobit Tob 17 12 1 Tunc vocavit ad se Tobias filium suum, dixitque ei : Quid possumus dare viro isti sancto, qui venit tecum ? +Tobit Tob 17 12 2 Respondens Tobias, dixit patri suo : Pater, quam mercedem dabimus ei ? aut quid dignum poterit esse beneficiis ejus ? +Tobit Tob 17 12 3 Me duxit et reduxit sanum, pecuniam a Gabelo ipse recepit, uxorem ipse me habere fecit, et dæmonium ab ea ipse compescuit : gaudium parentibus ejus fecit, meipsum a devoratione piscis eripuit, te quoque videre fecit lumen cæli, et bonis omnibus per eum repleti sumus. Quid illi ad hæc poterimus dignum dare ? +Tobit Tob 17 12 4 Sed peto te, pater mi, ut roges eum, si forte dignabitur medietatem de omnibus quæ allata sunt, sibi assumere. +Tobit Tob 17 12 5 Et vocantes eum, pater scilicet et filius, tulerunt eum in partem : et rogare cœperunt ut dignaretur dimidiam partem omnium quæ attulerant acceptam habere. +Tobit Tob 17 12 6 Tunc dixit eis occulte : Benedicite Deum cæli, et coram omnibus viventibus confitemini ei, quia fecit vobiscum misericordiam suam. +Tobit Tob 17 12 7 Etenim sacramentum regis abscondere bonum est : opera autem Dei revelare et confiteri honorificum est. +Tobit Tob 17 12 8 Bona est oratio cum jejunio, et eleemosyna magis quam thesauros auri recondere : +Tobit Tob 17 12 9 quoniam eleemosyna a morte liberat, et ipsa est quæ purgat peccata, et facit invenire misericordiam et viam æternam. +Tobit Tob 17 12 10 Qui autem faciunt peccatum et iniquitatem, hostes sunt animæ suæ. +Tobit Tob 17 12 11 Manifesto ergo vobis veritatem, et non abscondam a vobis occultum sermonem. +Tobit Tob 17 12 12 Quando orabas cum lacrimis, et sepeliebas mortuos, et derelinquebas prandium tuum, et mortuos abscondebas per diem in domo tua, et nocte sepeliebas eos, ego obtuli orationem tuam Domino. +Tobit Tob 17 12 13 Et quia acceptus eras Deo, necesse fuit ut tentatio probaret te. +Tobit Tob 17 12 14 Et nunc misit me Dominus ut curarem te, et Saram uxorem filii tui a dæmonio liberarem. +Tobit Tob 17 12 15 Ego enim sum Raphaël angelus, unus ex septem qui adstamus ante Dominum. +Tobit Tob 17 12 16 Cumque hæc audissent, turbati sunt, et trementes ceciderunt super terram in faciem suam. +Tobit Tob 17 12 17 Dixitque eis angelus : Pax vobis : nolite timere. +Tobit Tob 17 12 18 Etenim cum essem vobiscum, per voluntatem Dei eram : ipsum benedicite, et cantate illi. +Tobit Tob 17 12 19 Videbar quidem vobiscum manducare et bibere : sed ego cibo invisibili, et potu qui ab hominibus videri non potest, utor. +Tobit Tob 17 12 20 Tempus est ergo ut revertar ad eum qui me misit : vos autem benedicite Deum, et narrate omnia mirabilia ejus. +Tobit Tob 17 12 21 Et cum hæc dixisset, ab aspectu eorum ablatus est, et ultra eum videre non potuerunt. +Tobit Tob 17 12 22 Tunc prostrati per horas tres in faciem, benedixerunt Deum : et exsurgentes narraverunt omnia mirabilia ejus. +Tobit Tob 17 13 1 Aperiens autem Tobias senior os suum, benedixit Dominum, et dixit : Magnus es, Domine, in æternum, et in omnia sæcula regnum tuum : +Tobit Tob 17 13 2 quoniam tu flagellas, et salvas ; deducis ad inferos, et reducis : et non est qui effugiat manum tuam. +Tobit Tob 17 13 3 Confitemini Domino, filii Israël, et in conspectu gentium laudate eum : +Tobit Tob 17 13 4 quoniam ideo dispersit vos inter gentes quæ ignorant eum, ut vos enarretis mirabilia ejus, et faciatis scire eos quia non est alius deus omnipotens præter eum. +Tobit Tob 17 13 5 Ipse castigavit nos propter iniquitates nostras, et ipse salvabit nos propter misericordiam suam. +Tobit Tob 17 13 6 Aspicite ergo quæ fecit nobiscum, et cum timore et tremore confitemini illi : regemque sæculorum exaltate in operibus vestris. +Tobit Tob 17 13 7 Ego autem in terra captivitatis meæ confitebor illi : quoniam ostendit majestatem suam in gentem peccatricem. +Tobit Tob 17 13 8 Convertimini itaque peccatores, et facite justitiam coram Deo, credentes quod faciat vobiscum misericordiam suam. +Tobit Tob 17 13 9 Ego autem et anima mea in eo lætabimur. +Tobit Tob 17 13 10 Benedicite Dominum omnes electi ejus : agite dies lætitiæ, et confitemini illi. +Tobit Tob 17 13 11 Jerusalem civitas Dei, castigavit te Dominus in operibus manuum tuarum. +Tobit Tob 17 13 12 Confitere Domino in bonis tuis, et benedic Deum sæculorum : ut reædificet in te tabernaculum suum, et revocet ad te omnes captivos, et gaudeas in omnia sæcula sæculorum. +Tobit Tob 17 13 13 Luce splendida fulgebis, et omnes fines terræ adorabunt te. +Tobit Tob 17 13 14 Nationes ex longinquo ad te venient, et munera deferentes adorabunt in te Dominum, et terram tuam in sanctificationem habebunt : +Tobit Tob 17 13 15 nomen enim magnum invocabunt in te. +Tobit Tob 17 13 16 Maledicti erunt qui contempserint te, et condemnati erunt omnes qui blasphemaverint te : benedictique erunt qui ædificaverint te. +Tobit Tob 17 13 17 Tu autem lætaberis in filiis tuis, quoniam omnes benedicentur, et congregabuntur ad Dominum. +Tobit Tob 17 13 18 Beati omnes qui diligunt te, et qui gaudent super pace tua. +Tobit Tob 17 13 19 Anima mea, benedic Dominum, quoniam liberavit Jerusalem civitatem suam a cunctis tribulationibus ejus Dominus Deus noster. +Tobit Tob 17 13 20 Beatus ero si fuerint reliquiæ seminis mei ad videndam claritatem Jerusalem. +Tobit Tob 17 13 21 Portæ Jerusalem ex sapphiro et smaragdo ædificabuntur, et ex lapide pretioso omnis circuitus murorum ejus. +Tobit Tob 17 13 22 Ex lapide candido et mundo omnes plateæ ejus sternentur, et per vicos ejus alleluja cantabitur. +Tobit Tob 17 13 23 Benedictus Dominus, qui exaltavit eam, et sit regnum ejus in sæcula sæculorum super eam. Amen. +Tobit Tob 17 14 1 Et consummati sunt sermones Tobiæ. Et postquam illuminatus est Tobias, vixit annis quadraginta duobus, et vidit filios nepotum suorum. +Tobit Tob 17 14 2 Completis itaque annis centum duobus, sepultus est honorifice in Ninive. +Tobit Tob 17 14 3 Quinquaginta namque et sex annorum lumen oculorum amisit, sexagenarius vero recepit. +Tobit Tob 17 14 4 Reliquum vero vitæ suæ in gaudio fuit, et cum bono profectu timoris Dei perrexit in pace. +Tobit Tob 17 14 5 In hora autem mortis suæ vocavit ad se Tobiam filium suum, et septem juvenes filios ejus nepotes suos, dixitque eis : +Tobit Tob 17 14 6 Prope erit interitus Ninive : non enim excidit verbum Domini : et fratres nostri, qui dispersi sunt a terra Israël, revertentur ad eam. +Tobit Tob 17 14 7 Omnis autem deserta terra ejus replebitur, et domus Dei, quæ in ea incensa est, iterum reædificabitur : ibique revertentur omnes timentes Deum, +Tobit Tob 17 14 8 et relinquent gentes idola sua, et venient in Jerusalem, et inhabitabunt in ea : +Tobit Tob 17 14 9 et gaudebunt in ea omnes reges terræ, adorantes regem Israël. +Tobit Tob 17 14 10 Audite ergo, filii mei, patrem vestrum : servite Domino in veritate, et inquirite ut faciatis quæ placita sunt illi : +Tobit Tob 17 14 11 et filiis vestris mandate ut faciant justitias et eleemosynas, ut sint memores Dei, et benedicant eum in omni tempore in veritate, et in tota virtute sua. +Tobit Tob 17 14 12 Nunc ergo filii, audite me, et nolite manere hic : sed quacumque die sepelieritis matrem vestram circa me in uno sepulchro, ex eo dirigite gressus vestros ut exeatis hinc : +Tobit Tob 17 14 13 video enim quia iniquitas ejus finem dabit ei. +Tobit Tob 17 14 14 Factum est autem post obitum matris suæ, Tobias abscessit ex Ninive cum uxore sua, et filiis, et filiorum filiis, et reversus est ad soceros suos : +Tobit Tob 17 14 15 invenitque eos incolumes in senectute bona : et curam eorum gessit, et ipse clausit oculos eorum : et omnem hæreditatem domus Raguelis ipse percepit : viditque quintam generationem, filios filiorum suorum. +Tobit Tob 17 14 16 Et completis annis nonaginta novem in timore Domini, cum gaudio sepelierunt eum. +Tobit Tob 17 14 17 Omnis autem cognatio ejus et omnis generatio ejus in bona vita et in sancta conversatione permansit, ita ut accepti essent tam Deo quam hominibus, et cunctis habitantibus in terra. +Judith Jdt 18 1 1 Arphaxad itaque, rex Medorum, subjugaverat multas gentes imperio suo, et ipse ædificavit civitatem potentissimam, quam appellavit Ecbatanis, +Judith Jdt 18 1 2 ex lapidibus quadratis et sectis : fecit muros ejus in altitudinem cubitorum septuaginta, et in latitudinem cubitorum triginta : turres vero ejus posuit in altitudinem cubitorum centum. +Judith Jdt 18 1 3 Per quadrum vero earum latus utrumque vicenorum pedum spatio tendebatur, posuitque portas ejus in altitudinem turrium : +Judith Jdt 18 1 4 et gloriabatur quasi potens in potentia exercitus sui, et in gloria quadrigarum suarum. +Judith Jdt 18 1 5 Anno igitur duodecimo regni sui, Nabuchodonosor rex Assyriorum, qui regnabat in Ninive civitate magna, pugnavit contra Arphaxad, et obtinuit eum +Judith Jdt 18 1 6 in campo magno qui appellatur Ragau, circa Euphraten, et Tigrin, et Jadason, in campo Erioch regis Elicorum. +Judith Jdt 18 1 7 Tunc exaltatum est regnum Nabuchodonosor, et cor ejus elevatum est : et misit ad omnes qui habitabant in Cilicia, et Damasco, et Libano, +Judith Jdt 18 1 8 et ad gentes quæ sunt in Carmelo et Cedar, et inhabitantes Galilæam in campo magno Esdrelon, +Judith Jdt 18 1 9 et ad omnes qui erant in Samaria, et trans flumen Jordanem usque ad Jerusalem, et omnem terram Jesse quousque perveniatur ad terminos Æthiopiæ. +Judith Jdt 18 1 10 Ad hos omnes misit nuntios Nabuchodonosor rex Assyriorum : +Judith Jdt 18 1 11 qui omnes uno animo contradixerunt, et remiserunt eos vacuos, et sine honore abjecerunt. +Judith Jdt 18 1 12 Tunc indignatus Nabuchodonosor rex adversus omnem terram illam, juravit per thronum et regnum suum quod defenderet se de omnibus regionibus his. +Judith Jdt 18 2 1 Anno tertiodecimo Nabuchodonosor regis, vigesima et secunda die mensis primi, factum est verbum in domo Nabuchodonosor regis Assyriorum ut defenderet se. +Judith Jdt 18 2 2 Vocavitque omnes majores natu, omnesque duces et bellatores suos, et habuit cum eis mysterium consilii sui : +Judith Jdt 18 2 3 dixitque cogitationem suam in eo esse, ut omnem terram suo subjugaret imperio. +Judith Jdt 18 2 4 Quod dictum cum placuisset omnibus, vocavit Nabuchodonosor rex Holofernem principem militiæ suæ, +Judith Jdt 18 2 5 et dixit ei : Egredere adversus omne regnum occidentis, et contra eos præcipue, qui contempserunt imperium meum. +Judith Jdt 18 2 6 Non parcet oculus tuus ulli regno, omnemque urbem munitam subjugabis mihi. +Judith Jdt 18 2 7 Tunc Holofernes vocavit duces et magistratus virtutis Assyriorum, et dinumeravit viros in expeditionem sicut præcepit ei rex, centum viginti millia peditum pugnatorum, et equitum sagittariorum duodecim millia. +Judith Jdt 18 2 8 Omnemque expeditionem suam fecit præire in multitudine innumerabilium camelorum, cum his quæ exercitibus sufficerent copiose, boum quoque armenta, gregesque ovium, quorum non erat numerus. +Judith Jdt 18 2 9 Frumentum ex omni Syria in transitu suo parari constituit. +Judith Jdt 18 2 10 Aurum vero et argentum de domo regis assumpsit multum nimis. +Judith Jdt 18 2 11 Et profectus est ipse, et omnis exercitus cum quadrigis, et equitibus, et sagittariis : qui cooperuerunt faciem terræ sicut locustæ. +Judith Jdt 18 2 12 Cumque pertransisset fines Assyriorum, venit ad magnos montes Ange, qui sunt a sinistro Ciliciæ : ascenditque omnia castella eorum, et obtinuit omnem munitionem. +Judith Jdt 18 2 13 Effregit autem civitatem opinatissimam Melothi, prædavitque omnes filios Tharsis et filios Ismaël qui erant contra faciem deserti, et ad austrum terræ Cellon. +Judith Jdt 18 2 14 Et transivit Euphraten, et venit in Mesopotamiam : et fregit omnes civitates excelsas quæ erant ibi, a torrente Mambre usquequo perveniatur ad mare : +Judith Jdt 18 2 15 et occupavit terminos ejus, a Cilicia usque ad fines Japheth qui sunt ad austrum. +Judith Jdt 18 2 16 Abduxitque omnes filios Madian, et prædavit omnem locupletationem eorum, omnesque resistentes sibi occidit in ore gladii. +Judith Jdt 18 2 17 Et post hæc descendit in campos Damasci in diebus messis, et succendit omnia sata, omnesque arbores, et vineas fecit incidi : +Judith Jdt 18 2 18 et cecidit timor illius super omnes inhabitantes terram. +Judith Jdt 18 3 1 Tunc miserunt legatos suos universarum urbium ac provinciarum reges ac principes, Syriæ scilicet Mesopotamiæ, et Syriæ Sobal, et Libyæ, atque Ciliciæ : qui venientes ad Holofernem, dixerunt : +Judith Jdt 18 3 2 Desinat indignatio tua circa nos : melius est enim ut viventes serviamus Nabuchodonosor regi magno, et subditi simus tibi, quam morientes cum interitu nostro ipsi servitutis nostræ damna patiamur. +Judith Jdt 18 3 3 Omnis civitas nostra, omnisque possessio, omnes montes, et colles, et campi, et armenta boum, gregesque ovium, et caprarum, equorumque et camelorum, et universæ facultates nostræ atque familiæ, in conspectu tuo sunt : +Judith Jdt 18 3 4 sint omnia nostra sub lege tua. +Judith Jdt 18 3 5 Nos, et filii nostri, servi tui sumus. +Judith Jdt 18 3 6 Veni nobis pacificus dominus, et utere servitio nostro, sicut placuerit tibi. +Judith Jdt 18 3 7 Tunc descendit de montibus cum equitibus in virtute magna, et obtinuit omnem civitatem, et omnem inhabitantem terram. +Judith Jdt 18 3 8 De universis autem urbibus assumpsit sibi auxiliarios viros fortes, et electos ad bellum. +Judith Jdt 18 3 9 Tantusque metus provinciis illis incubuit, ut universarum urbium habitatores principes et honorati simul cum populis exirent obviam venienti, +Judith Jdt 18 3 10 excipientes eum cum coronis et lampadibus, ducentes choros in tympanis et tibiis. +Judith Jdt 18 3 11 Nec ista tamen facientes, ferocitatem ejus pectoris mitigare potuerunt : +Judith Jdt 18 3 12 nam et civitates eorum destruxit, et lucos eorum excidit. +Judith Jdt 18 3 13 Præceperat enim illi Nabuchodonosor rex, ut omnes deos terræ exterminaret, videlicet ut ipse solus diceretur deus ab his nationibus quæ potuissent Holofernis potentia subjugari. +Judith Jdt 18 3 14 Pertransiens autem Syriam Sobal, et omnem Apameam, omnemque Mesopotamiam, venit ad Idumæos in terram Gabaa, +Judith Jdt 18 3 15 accepitque civitates eorum, et sedit ibi per triginta dies, in quibus diebus adunari præcepit universum exercitum virtutis suæ. +Judith Jdt 18 4 1 Tunc audientes hæc filii Israël qui habitabant in terra Juda, timuerunt valde a facie ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 4 2 Tremor et horror invasit sensus eorum, ne hoc faceret Jerusalem et templo Domini, quod fecerat ceteris civitatibus et templis earum. +Judith Jdt 18 4 3 Et miserunt in omnem Samariam per circuitum usque Jericho, et præoccupaverunt omnes vertices montium : +Judith Jdt 18 4 4 et muris circumdederunt vicos suos, et congregaverunt frumenta in præparationem pugnæ. +Judith Jdt 18 4 5 Sacerdos etiam Eliachim scripsit ad universos qui erant contra Esdrelon, quæ est contra faciem campi magni juxta Dothain, et universos per quos viæ transitus esse poterat, +Judith Jdt 18 4 6 ut obtinerent ascensus montium, per quos via esse poterat ad Jerusalem, et illic custodirent ubi angustum iter esse poterat inter montes. +Judith Jdt 18 4 7 Et fecerunt filii Israël secundum quod constituerat eis sacerdos Domini Eliachim. +Judith Jdt 18 4 8 Et clamavit omnis populus ad Dominum instantia magna, et humiliaverunt animas suas in jejuniis et orationibus, ipsi et mulieres eorum. +Judith Jdt 18 4 9 Et induerunt se sacerdotes ciliciis, et infantes prostraverunt contra faciem templi Domini, et altare Domini operuerunt cilicio : +Judith Jdt 18 4 10 et clamaverunt ad Dominum Deum Israël unanimiter ne darentur in prædam infantes eorum, et uxores eorum in divisionem, et civitates eorum in exterminium, et sancta eorum in pollutionem, et fierent opprobrium gentibus. +Judith Jdt 18 4 11 Tunc Eliachim sacerdos Domini magnus circuivit omnem Israël, allocutusque est eos, +Judith Jdt 18 4 12 dicens : Scitote quoniam exaudiet Dominus preces vestras, si manentes permanseritis in jejuniis et orationibus in conspectu Domini. +Judith Jdt 18 4 13 Memores estote Moysi servi Domini, qui Amalec confidentem in virtute sua, et in potentia sua, et in exercitu suo, et in clypeis suis, et in curribus suis, et in equitibus suis, non ferro pugnando, sed precibus sanctis orando dejecit : +Judith Jdt 18 4 14 sic erunt universi hostes Israël, si perseveraveritis in hoc opere quod cœpistis. +Judith Jdt 18 4 15 Ad hanc igitur exhortationem ejus deprecantes Dominum, permanebant in conspectu Domini, +Judith Jdt 18 4 16 ita ut etiam hi qui offerebant Domino holocausta, præcincti ciliciis offerrent sacrificia Domino, et erat cinis super capita eorum. +Judith Jdt 18 4 17 Et ex toto corde suo omnes orabant Deum, ut visitaret populum suum Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 5 1 Nuntiatumque est Holoferni principi militiæ Assyriorum, quod filii Israël præpararent se ad resistendum, ac montium itinera conclusissent : +Judith Jdt 18 5 2 et furore nimio exarsit in iracundia magna, vocavitque omnes principes Moab et duces Ammon, +Judith Jdt 18 5 3 et dixit eis : Dicite mihi quis sit populus iste, qui montana obsidet : aut quæ, et quales, et quantæ sint civitates eorum : quæ etiam sit virtus eorum, aut quæ sit multitudo eorum, vel quis rex militiæ illorum : +Judith Jdt 18 5 4 et quare præ omnibus qui habitant in oriente, isti contempserunt nos, et non exierunt obviam nobis ut susciperent nos cum pace ? +Judith Jdt 18 5 5 Tunc Achior dux omnium filiorum Ammon respondens, ait : Si digneris audire, domine mi, dicam veritatem in conspectu tuo de populo isto qui in montanis habitat, et non egredietur verbum falsum ex ore meo. +Judith Jdt 18 5 6 Populus iste ex progenie Chaldæorum est. +Judith Jdt 18 5 7 Hic primum in Mesopotamia habitavit, quoniam noluerunt sequi deos patrum suorum, qui erant in terra Chaldæorum. +Judith Jdt 18 5 8 Deserentes itaque cæremonias patrum suorum, quæ in multitudine deorum erant, +Judith Jdt 18 5 9 unum Deum cæli coluerunt, qui et præcepit eis ut exirent inde et habitarent in Charan. Cumque operuisset omnem terram fames, descenderunt in Ægyptum, illicque per quadringentos annos sic multiplicati sunt, ut dinumerari eorum non posset exercitus. +Judith Jdt 18 5 10 Cumque gravaret eos rex Ægypti, atque in ædificationibus urbium suarum in luto et latere subjugasset eos, clamaverunt ad Dominum suum, et percussit totam terram Ægypti plagis variis. +Judith Jdt 18 5 11 Cumque ejecissent eos Ægyptii a se, et cessasset plaga ab eis, et iterum eos vellent capere, et ad suum servitium revocare, +Judith Jdt 18 5 12 fugientibus his, Deus cæli mare aperuit, ita ut hinc inde aquæ quasi murus solidarentur, et isti pede sicco fundum maris perambulando transirent. +Judith Jdt 18 5 13 In quo loco dum innumerabilis exercitus Ægyptiorum eos persequeretur, ita aquis coopertus est, ut non remaneret vel unus, qui factum posteris nuntiaret. +Judith Jdt 18 5 14 Egressi vero mare Rubrum, deserta Sina montis occupaverunt, in quibus numquam homo habitare potuit, vel filius hominis requievit. +Judith Jdt 18 5 15 Illic fontes amari obdulcati sunt eis ad bibendum, et per annos quadraginta annonam de cælo consecuti sunt. +Judith Jdt 18 5 16 Ubicumque ingressi sunt sine arcu et sagitta, et absque scuto et gladio, Deus eorum pugnavit pro eis, et vicit. +Judith Jdt 18 5 17 Et non fuit qui insultaret populo isti, nisi quando recessit a cultu Domini Dei sui. +Judith Jdt 18 5 18 Quotiescumque autem præter ipsum Deum suum, alterum coluerunt, dati sunt in prædam, et in gladium, et in opprobrium. +Judith Jdt 18 5 19 Quotiescumque autem pœnituerunt se recessisse a cultura Dei sui, dedit eis Deus cæli virtutem resistendi. +Judith Jdt 18 5 20 Denique Chananæum regem, et Jebusæum, et Pherezæum, et Hethæum, et Hevæum, et Amorrhæum, et omnes potentes in Hesebon prostraverunt, et terras eorum et civitates eorum ipsi possederunt : +Judith Jdt 18 5 21 et usque dum non peccarent in conspectu Dei sui, erant cum illis bona : Deus enim illorum odit iniquitatem. +Judith Jdt 18 5 22 Nam et ante hos annos cum recessissent a via quam dederat illis Deus ut ambularent in ea, exterminati sunt præliis a multis nationibus, et plurimi eorum captivi abducti sunt in terram non suam. +Judith Jdt 18 5 23 Nuper autem reversi ad Dominum Deum suum, ex dispersione qua dispersi fuerant, adunati sunt, et ascenderunt montana hæc omnia, et iterum possident Jerusalem, ubi sunt sancta eorum. +Judith Jdt 18 5 24 Nunc ergo mi domine, perquire si est aliqua iniquitas eorum in conspectu Dei eorum : ascendamus ad illos, quoniam tradens tradet illos Deus eorum tibi, et subjugati erunt sub jugo potentiæ tuæ. +Judith Jdt 18 5 25 Si vero non est offensio populi hujus coram Deo suo, non poterimus resistere illis, quoniam Deus eorum defendet illos : et erimus in opprobrium universæ terræ. +Judith Jdt 18 5 26 Et factum est, cum cessasset loqui Achior verba hæc, irati sunt omnes magnates Holofernis, et cogitabant interficere eum, dicentes ad alterutrum : +Judith Jdt 18 5 27 Quis est iste, qui filios Israël posse dicat resistere regi Nabuchodonosor et exercitibus ejus, homines inermes, et sine virtute, et sine peritia artis pugnæ ? +Judith Jdt 18 5 28 Ut ergo agnoscat Achior quoniam fallit nos, ascendamus in montana : et cum capti fuerint potentes eorum, tunc cum eisdem gladio transverberabitur : +Judith Jdt 18 5 29 ut sciat omnis gens quoniam Nabuchodonosor deus terræ est, et præter ipsum alius non est. +Judith Jdt 18 6 1 Factum est autem cum cessassent loqui, indignatus Holofernes vehementer, dixit ad Achior : +Judith Jdt 18 6 2 Quoniam prophetasti nobis, dicens quod gens Israël defendatur a Deo suo, ut ostendam tibi quoniam non est deus nisi Nabuchodonosor, +Judith Jdt 18 6 3 cum percusserimus eos omnes, sicut hominem unum, tunc et ipse cum illis Assyriorum gladio interibis, et omnis Israël tecum perditione disperiet : +Judith Jdt 18 6 4 et probabis quoniam Nabuchodonosor dominus sit universæ terræ : tuncque gladius militiæ meæ transiet per latera tua, et confixus cades inter vulneratos Israël, et non respirabis ultra, donec extermineris cum illis. +Judith Jdt 18 6 5 Porro autem si prophetiam tuam veram existimas, non concidat vultus tuus : et pallor qui faciem tuam obtinet abscedat a te, si verba mea hæc putas impleri non posse. +Judith Jdt 18 6 6 Ut autem noveris quia simul cum illis hæc experieris, ecce ex hac hora illorum populo sociaberis, ut, dum dignas mei gladii pœnas exceperint, ipse simul ultioni subjaceas. +Judith Jdt 18 6 7 Tunc Holofernes præcepit servis suis ut comprehenderent Achior, et perducerent eum in Bethuliam, et traderent eum in manus filiorum Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 6 8 Et accipientes eum servi Holofernis, profecti sunt per campestria : sed cum appropinquassent ad montana, exierunt contra eos fundibularii. +Judith Jdt 18 6 9 Illi autem divertentes a latere montis, ligaverunt Achior ad arborem manibus et pedibus, et sic vinctum restibus dimiserunt eum, et reversi sunt ad dominum suum. +Judith Jdt 18 6 10 Porro filii Israël descendentes de Bethulia, venerunt ad eum : quem solventes, duxerunt ad Bethuliam, atque in medium populi illum statuentes, percunctati sunt quid rerum esset quod illum vinctum Assyrii reliquissent. +Judith Jdt 18 6 11 In diebus illis erant illic principes Ozias filius Micha de tribu Simeon, et Charmi, qui et Gothoniel. +Judith Jdt 18 6 12 In medio itaque seniorum, et in conspectu omnium, Achior dixit omnia quæ locutus ipse fuerat ab Holoferne interrogatus : et qualiter populus Holofernis voluisset propter hoc verbum interficere eum, +Judith Jdt 18 6 13 et quemadmodum ipse Holofernes iratus jusserit eum Israëlitis hac de causa tradi, ut dum vicerit filios Israël, tunc et ipsum Achior diversis jubeat interire suppliciis, propter hoc quod dixisset : Deus cæli defensor eorum est. +Judith Jdt 18 6 14 Cumque Achior universa hæc exposuisset, omnis populus cecidit in faciem, adorantes Dominum, et communi lamentatione et fletu unanimes preces suas Domino effuderunt, +Judith Jdt 18 6 15 dicentes : Domine Deus cæli et terræ, intuere superbiam eorum, et respice ad nostram humilitatem, et faciem sanctorum tuorum attende, et ostende quoniam non derelinquis præsumentes de te : et præsumentes de se, et de sua virtute gloriantes, humilias. +Judith Jdt 18 6 16 Finito itaque fletu, et per totam diem oratione populorum completa, consolati sunt Achior, +Judith Jdt 18 6 17 dicentes : Deus patrum nostrorum, cujus tu virtutem prædicasti, ipse tibi hanc dabit vicissitudinem, ut eorum magis tu interitum videas. +Judith Jdt 18 6 18 Cum vero Dominus Deus noster dederit hanc libertatem servis suis, sit et tecum Deus in medio nostri : ut sicut placuerit tibi, ita cum tuis omnibus converseris nobiscum. +Judith Jdt 18 6 19 Tunc Ozias, finito consilio, suscepit eum in domum suam, et fecit ei cœnam magnam. +Judith Jdt 18 6 20 Et vocatis omnibus presbyteris, simul expleto jejunio refecerunt. +Judith Jdt 18 6 21 Postea vero convocatus est omnis populus, et per totam noctem intra ecclesiam oraverunt, petentes auxilium a Deo Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 7 1 Holofernes autem altera die præcepit exercitibus suis ut ascenderent contra Bethuliam. +Judith Jdt 18 7 2 Erant autem pedites bellatorum centum viginti millia, et equites viginti duo millia, præter præparationes virorum illorum quos occupaverat captivitas, et abducti fuerant de provinciis et urbibus universæ juventutis. +Judith Jdt 18 7 3 Omnes paraverunt se pariter ad pugnam contra filios Israël, et venerunt per crepidinem montis usque ad apicem, qui respicit super Dothain, a loco qui dicitur Belma usque ad Chelmon, qui est contra Esdrelon. +Judith Jdt 18 7 4 Filii autem Israël, ut viderunt multitudinem illorum, prostraverunt se super terram, mittentes cinerem super capita sua, unanimes orantes ut Deus Israël misericordiam suam ostenderet super populum suum. +Judith Jdt 18 7 5 Et assumentes arma sua bellica, sederunt per loca quæ ad angusti itineris tramitem dirigunt inter montosa, et erant custodientes ea tota die et nocte. +Judith Jdt 18 7 6 Porro Holofernes, dum circuit per gyrum, reperit quod fons qui influebat, aquæductum illorum a parte australi extra civitatem dirigeret : et incidi præcepit aquæductum illorum. +Judith Jdt 18 7 7 Erant tamen non longe a muris fontes, ex quibus furtim videbantur haurire aquam ad refocillandum potius quam ad potandum. +Judith Jdt 18 7 8 Sed filii Ammon et Moab accesserunt ad Holofernem, dicentes : Filii Israël non in lancea nec in sagitta confidunt, sed montes defendunt illos, et muniunt illos colles in præcipitio constituti. +Judith Jdt 18 7 9 Ut ergo sine congressione pugnæ possis superare eos, pone custodes fontium, ut non hauriant aquam ex eis, et sine gladio interficies eos, vel certe fatigati tradent civitatem suam, quam putant in montibus positam superari non posse. +Judith Jdt 18 7 10 Et placuerunt verba hæc coram Holoferne et coram satellitibus ejus, et constituit per gyrum centenarios per singulos fontes. +Judith Jdt 18 7 11 Cumque ista custodia per dies viginti fuisset expleta, defecerunt cisternæ et collectiones aquarum omnibus habitantibus Bethuliam, ita ut non esset intra civitatem unde satiarentur vel una die, quoniam ad mensuram dabatur populis aqua quotidie. +Judith Jdt 18 7 12 Tunc ad Oziam congregati omnes viri feminæque, juvenes et parvuli, omnes simul una voce +Judith Jdt 18 7 13 dixerunt : Judicet Deus inter nos et te, quoniam fecisti in nos mala, nolens loqui pacifice cum Assyriis, et propter hoc vendidit nos Deus in manibus eorum. +Judith Jdt 18 7 14 Et ideo non est qui adjuvet, cum prosternamur ante oculos eorum in siti, et perditione magna. +Judith Jdt 18 7 15 Et nunc congregate universos qui in civitate sunt, ut sponte tradamus nos omnes populo Holofernis. +Judith Jdt 18 7 16 Melius est enim ut captivi benedicamus Dominum viventes, quam moriamur, et simus opprobrium omni carni, cum viderimus uxores nostras et infantes nostros mori ante oculos nostros. +Judith Jdt 18 7 17 Contestamur hodie cælum et terram, et Deum patrum nostrorum, qui ulciscitur nos secundum peccata nostra, ut jam tradatis civitatem in manu militiæ Holofernis, et sit finis noster brevis in ore gladii, qui longior efficitur in ariditate sitis. +Judith Jdt 18 7 18 Et cum hæc dixissent, factus est fletus et ululatus magnus in ecclesia ab omnibus, et per multas horas una voce clamaverunt ad Deum, dicentes : +Judith Jdt 18 7 19 Peccavimus cum patribus nostris : injuste egimus, iniquitatem fecimus. +Judith Jdt 18 7 20 Tu, quia pius es, miserere nostri, aut in tuo flagello vindica iniquitates nostras, et noli tradere confitentes te populo qui ignorat te, +Judith Jdt 18 7 21 ut non dicant inter gentes : Ubi est Deus eorum ? +Judith Jdt 18 7 22 Et cum fatigati ex his clamoribus et his fletibus lassati siluissent, +Judith Jdt 18 7 23 exsurgens Ozias infusus lacrimis, dixit : Æquo animo estote, fratres, et hos quinque dies expectemus a Domino misericordiam. +Judith Jdt 18 7 24 Forsitan enim indignationem suam abscindet, et dabit gloriam nomini suo. +Judith Jdt 18 7 25 Si autem transactis quinque diebus non venerit adjutorium, faciemus hæc verba quæ locuti estis. +Judith Jdt 18 8 1 Et factum est cum audisset hæc verba Judith vidua, quæ erat filia Merari filii Idox filii Joseph filii Oziæ filii Elai filii Jamnor filii Gedeon filii Raphaim filii Achitob filii Melchiæ filii Enan filii Nathaniæ filii Salathiel filii Simeon filii Ruben, +Judith Jdt 18 8 2 et vir ejus fuit Manasses, qui mortuus est in diebus messis hordeaceæ : +Judith Jdt 18 8 3 instabat enim super alligantes manipulos in campo, et venit æstus super caput ejus, et mortuus est in Bethulia civitate sua, et sepultus est illic cum patribus suis. +Judith Jdt 18 8 4 Erat autem Judith relicta ejus vidua jam annis tribus et mensibus sex. +Judith Jdt 18 8 5 Et in superioribus domus suæ fecit sibi secretum cubiculum, in quo cum puellis suis clausa morabatur, +Judith Jdt 18 8 6 et habens super lumbos suos cilicium, jejunabat omnibus diebus vitæ suæ, præter sabbata et neomenias et festa domus Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 8 7 Erat autem eleganti aspectu nimis, cui vir suus reliquerat divitias multas, et familiam copiosam, ac possessiones armentis boum, et gregibus ovium plenas. +Judith Jdt 18 8 8 Et erat hæc in omnibus famosissima, quoniam timebat Dominum valde, nec erat qui loqueretur de illa verbum malum. +Judith Jdt 18 8 9 Hæc itaque cum audisset quoniam Ozias promisisset quod transacto quinto die traderet civitatem, misit ad presbyteros Chabri et Charmi. +Judith Jdt 18 8 10 Et venerunt ad illam, et dixit illis : Quod est hoc verbum, in quo consensit Ozias, ut tradat civitatem Assyriis si intra quinque dies non venerit vobis adjutorium ? +Judith Jdt 18 8 11 et qui estis vos, qui tentatis Dominum ? +Judith Jdt 18 8 12 non est iste sermo qui misericordiam provocet, sed potius qui iram excitet, et furorem accendat. +Judith Jdt 18 8 13 Posuistis vos tempus miserationis Domini, et in arbitrium vestrum, diem constituistis ei. +Judith Jdt 18 8 14 Sed quia patiens Dominus est, in hoc ipso pœniteamus, et indulgentiam ejus fusis lacrimis postulemus : +Judith Jdt 18 8 15 non enim quasi homo sic Deus comminabitur, neque sicut filius hominis ad iracundiam inflammabitur. +Judith Jdt 18 8 16 Et ideo humiliemus illi animas nostras, et in spiritu constituti humiliato, servientes illi +Judith Jdt 18 8 17 dicamus flentes Domino, ut secundum voluntatem suam sic faciat nobiscum misericordiam suam : ut sicut conturbatum est cor nostrum in superbia eorum, ita etiam de nostra humilitate gloriemur : +Judith Jdt 18 8 18 quoniam non sumus secuti peccata patrum nostrorum, qui dereliquerunt Deum suum, et adoraverunt deos alienos, +Judith Jdt 18 8 19 pro quo scelere dati sunt in gladium, et in rapinam, et in confusionem inimicis suis : nos autem alterum deum nescimus præter ipsum. +Judith Jdt 18 8 20 Expectemus humiles consolationem ejus, et exquiret sanguinem nostrum de afflictionibus inimicorum nostrorum, et humiliabit omnes gentes, quæcumque insurgunt contra nos, et faciet illas sine honore Dominus Deus noster. +Judith Jdt 18 8 21 Et nunc fratres, quoniam vos estis presbyteri in populo Dei, et ex vobis pendet anima illorum, ad eloquium vestrum corda eorum erigite, ut memores sint quia tentati sunt patres nostri, ut probarentur si vere colerent Deum suum. +Judith Jdt 18 8 22 Memores esse debent quomodo pater noster Abraham tentatus est, et per multas tribulationes probatus, Dei amicus effectus est. +Judith Jdt 18 8 23 Sic Isaac, sic Jacob, sic Moyses, et omnes qui placuerunt Deo, per multas tribulationes transierunt fideles. +Judith Jdt 18 8 24 Illi autem qui tentationes non susceperunt cum timore Domini, et impatientiam suam et improperium murmurationis suæ contra Dominum protulerunt, +Judith Jdt 18 8 25 exterminati sunt ab exterminatore, et a serpentibus perierunt. +Judith Jdt 18 8 26 Et nos ergo non ulciscamur nos pro his quæ patimur, +Judith Jdt 18 8 27 sed reputantes peccatis nostris hæc ipsa supplicia minora esse flagella Domini, quibus quasi servi corripimur ad emendationem, et non ad perditionem nostram evenisse credamus. +Judith Jdt 18 8 28 Et dixerunt illi Ozias et presbyteri : Omnia quæ locuta es, vera sunt, et non est in sermonibus tuis ulla reprehensio. +Judith Jdt 18 8 29 Nunc ergo ora pro nobis, quoniam mulier sancta es, et timens Deum. +Judith Jdt 18 8 30 Et dixit illis Judith : Sicut quod potui loqui, Dei esse cognoscitis, +Judith Jdt 18 8 31 ita quod facere disposui, probate si ex Deo est, et orate ut firmum faciat Deus consilium meum. +Judith Jdt 18 8 32 Stabitis vos ad portam nocte ista, et ego exeam cum abra mea : et orate, ut sicut dixistis, in diebus quinque respiciat Dominus populum suum Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 8 33 Vos autem nolo ut scrutemini actum meum, et usque dum renuntiem vobis, nihil aliud fiat, nisi oratio pro me ad Dominum Deum nostrum. +Judith Jdt 18 8 34 Et dixit ad eam Ozias princeps Juda : Vade in pace, et Dominus sit tecum in ultionem inimicorum nostrorum. Et revertentes abierunt. +Judith Jdt 18 9 1 Quibus ascendentibus, Judith ingressa est oratorium suum : et induens se cilicio, posuit cinerem super caput suum : et prosternens se Domino, clamabat ad Dominum, dicens : +Judith Jdt 18 9 2 Domine Deus patris mei Simeon, qui dedisti illi gladium in defensionem alienigenarum, qui violatores extiterunt in coinquinatione sua, et denudaverunt femur virginis in confusionem : +Judith Jdt 18 9 3 et dedisti mulieres illorum in prædam, et filias illorum in captivitatem : et omnem prædam in divisionem servis tuis, qui zelaverunt zelum tuum : subveni, quæso te, Domine Deus meus, mihi viduæ. +Judith Jdt 18 9 4 Tu enim fecisti priora, et illa post illa cogitasti : et hoc factum est quod ipse voluisti. +Judith Jdt 18 9 5 Omnes enim viæ tuæ paratæ sunt, et tua judicia in tua providentia posuisti. +Judith Jdt 18 9 6 Respice castra Assyriorum nunc, sicut tunc castra Ægyptiorum videre dignatus es, quando post servos tuos armati currebant, confidentes in quadrigis, et in equitatu suo, et in multitudine bellatorum. +Judith Jdt 18 9 7 Sed aspexisti super castra eorum, et tenebræ fatigaverunt eos. +Judith Jdt 18 9 8 Tenuit pedes eorum abyssus, et aquæ operuerunt eos. +Judith Jdt 18 9 9 Sic fiant et isti, Domine, qui confidunt in multitudine sua, et in curribus suis, et in contis, et in scutis, et in sagittis suis, et in lanceis gloriantur, +Judith Jdt 18 9 10 et nesciunt quia tu ipse es Deus noster, qui conteris bella ab initio, et Dominus nomen est tibi. +Judith Jdt 18 9 11 Erige brachium tuum sicut ab initio, et allide virtutem illorum in virtute tua : cadat virtus eorum in iracundia tua, qui promittunt se violare sancta tua, et polluere tabernaculum nominis tui, et dejicere gladio suo cornu altaris tui. +Judith Jdt 18 9 12 Fac, Domine, ut gladio proprio ejus superbia amputetur : +Judith Jdt 18 9 13 capiatur laqueo oculorum suorum in me, et percuties eum ex labiis caritatis meæ. +Judith Jdt 18 9 14 Da mihi in animo constantiam ut contemnam illum, et virtutem, ut evertam illum. +Judith Jdt 18 9 15 Erit enim hoc memoriale nominis tui, cum manus feminæ dejecerit eum. +Judith Jdt 18 9 16 Non enim in multitudine est virtus tua, Domine, neque in equorum viribus voluntas tua est, nec superbi ab initio placuerunt tibi : sed humilium et mansuetorum semper tibi placuit deprecatio. +Judith Jdt 18 9 17 Deus cælorum, creator aquarum, et Dominus totius creaturæ, exaudi me miseram deprecantem, et de tua misericordia præsumentem. +Judith Jdt 18 9 18 Memento, Domine, testamenti tui, et da verbum in ore meo, et in corde meo consilium corrobora, ut domus tua in sanctificatione tua permaneat : +Judith Jdt 18 9 19 et omnes gentes agnoscant quia tu es Deus, et non est alius præter te. +Judith Jdt 18 10 1 Factum est autem, cum cessasset clamare ad Dominum, surrexit de loco in quo jacuerat prostrata ad Dominum. +Judith Jdt 18 10 2 Vocavitque abram suam, et descendens in domum suam, abstulit a se cilicium, et exuit se vestimentis viduitatis suæ, +Judith Jdt 18 10 3 et lavit corpus suum, et unxit se myro optimo, et discriminavit crinem capitis sui, et imposuit mitram super caput suum, et induit se vestimentis jucunditatis suæ, induitque sandalia pedibus suis, assumpsitque dextraliola, et lilia, et inaures, et annulos, et omnibus ornamentis suis ornavit se. +Judith Jdt 18 10 4 Cui etiam Dominus contulit splendorem : quoniam omnis ista compositio non ex libidine, sed ex virtute pendebat : et ideo Dominus hanc in illam pulchritudinem ampliavit, ut incomparabili decore omnium oculis appareret. +Judith Jdt 18 10 5 Imposuit itaque abræ suæ ascoperam vini, et vas olei, et polentam, et palathas, et panes, et caseum, et profecta est. +Judith Jdt 18 10 6 Cumque venissent ad portam civitatis, invenerunt expectantem Oziam et presbyteros civitatis. +Judith Jdt 18 10 7 Qui cum vidissent eam, stupentes mirati sunt nimis pulchritudinem ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 10 8 Nihil tamen interrogantes eam, dimiserunt transire, dicentes : Deus patrum nostrorum det tibi gratiam, et omne consilium tui cordis sua virtute corroboret, ut glorietur super te Jerusalem, et sit nomen tuum in numero sanctorum et justorum. +Judith Jdt 18 10 9 Et dixerunt hi qui illic erant omnes una voce : Fiat, fiat. +Judith Jdt 18 10 10 Judith vero orans Dominum, transivit per portas, ipsa et abra ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 10 11 Factum est autem cum descenderet montem, circa ortum diei, occurrerunt ei exploratores Assyriorum, et tenuerunt eam, dicentes : Unde venis ? aut quo vadis ? +Judith Jdt 18 10 12 Quæ respondit : Filia sum Hebræorum, ideo ego fugi a facie eorum, quoniam futurum agnovi quod dentur vobis in deprædationem, pro eo quod contemnentes vos, noluerunt ultro tradere seipsos ut invenirent misericordiam in conspectu vestro. +Judith Jdt 18 10 13 Hac de causa cogitavi mecum, dicens : Vadam ad faciem principis Holofernis, ut indicem illi secreta illorum, et ostendam illi quo aditu possit obtinere eos, ita ut non cadat vir unus de exercitu ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 10 14 Et cum audissent viri illi verba ejus, considerabant faciem ejus, et erat in oculis eorum stupor, quoniam pulchritudinem ejus mirabantur nimis. +Judith Jdt 18 10 15 Et dixerunt ad eam : Conservasti animam tuam, eo quod tale reperisti consilium, ut descenderes ad dominum nostrum. +Judith Jdt 18 10 16 Hoc autem scias, quoniam cum steteris in conspectu ejus, bene tibi faciet, et eris gratissima in corde ejus. Duxeruntque illam ad tabernaculum Holofernis, annuntiantes eam. +Judith Jdt 18 10 17 Cumque intrasset ante faciem ejus, statim captus est in suis oculis Holofernes. +Judith Jdt 18 10 18 Dixeruntque ad eum satellites ejus : Quis contemnat populum Hebræorum, qui tam decoras mulieres habent, ut non pro his merito pugnare contra eos debeamus ? +Judith Jdt 18 10 19 Videns itaque Judith Holofernem sedentem in conopeo, quod erat ex purpura, et auro, et smaragdo, et lapidibus pretiosis intextum, +Judith Jdt 18 10 20 et cum in faciem ejus intendisset, adoravit eum, prosternens se super terram. Et elevaverunt eam servi Holofernis, jubente domino suo. +Judith Jdt 18 11 1 Tunc Holofernes dixit ei : Æquo animo esto, et noli pavere in corde tuo : quoniam ego numquam nocui viro qui voluit servire Nabuchodonosor regi : +Judith Jdt 18 11 2 populus autem tuus, si non contempsisset me, non levassem lanceam meam super eum. +Judith Jdt 18 11 3 Nunc autem dic mihi, qua ex causa recessisti ab illis, et placuit tibi ut venires ad nos ? +Judith Jdt 18 11 4 Et dixit illi Judith : Sume verba ancillæ tuæ, quoniam si secutus fueris verba ancillæ tuæ, perfectam rem faciet Dominus tecum. +Judith Jdt 18 11 5 Vivit enim Nabuchodonosor rex terræ, et vivit virtus ejus, quæ est in te ad correptionem omnium animarum errantium : quoniam non solum homines serviunt illi per te, sed et bestiæ agri obtemperant illi. +Judith Jdt 18 11 6 Nuntiatur enim animi tui industria universis gentibus, et indicatum est omni sæculo quoniam tu solus bonus et potens es in omni regno ejus : et disciplina tua omnibus provinciis prædicatur. +Judith Jdt 18 11 7 Nec hoc latet, quod locutus est Achior, nec illud ignoratur, quod ei jusseris evenire. +Judith Jdt 18 11 8 Constat enim Deum nostrum sic peccatis offensum, ut mandaverit per prophetas suos ad populum quod tradat eum pro peccatis suis. +Judith Jdt 18 11 9 Et quoniam sciunt se offendisse Deum suum filii Israël, tremor tuus super ipsos est. +Judith Jdt 18 11 10 Insuper etiam fames invasit eos, et ab ariditate aquæ jam inter mortuos computantur. +Judith Jdt 18 11 11 Denique hoc ordinant, ut interficient pecora sua, et bibant sanguinem eorum : +Judith Jdt 18 11 12 et sancta Domini Dei sui, quæ præcepit Deus non contingi, in frumento, vino, et oleo, hæc cogitaverunt impendere, et volunt consumere quæ nec manibus deberent contingere : ergo quoniam hæc faciunt, certum est quod in perditionem dabuntur. +Judith Jdt 18 11 13 Quod ego ancilla tua cognoscens, fugi ab illis, et misit me Dominus hæc ipsa nuntiare tibi. +Judith Jdt 18 11 14 Ego enim ancilla tua Deum colo, etiam nunc apud te : et exiet ancilla tua, et orabo Deum, +Judith Jdt 18 11 15 et dicet mihi quando eis reddat peccatum suum, et veniens nuntiabo tibi, ita ut ego adducam te per mediam Jerusalem, et habebis omnem populum Israël, sicut oves quibus non est pastor, et non latrabit vel unus canis contra te : +Judith Jdt 18 11 16 quoniam hæc mihi dicta sunt per providentiam Dei, +Judith Jdt 18 11 17 et quoniam iratus est illis Deus, hæc ipsa missa sum nuntiare tibi. +Judith Jdt 18 11 18 Placuerunt autem omnia verba hæc coram Holoferne, et coram pueris ejus, et mirabantur sapientiam ejus, et dicebant alter ad alterum : +Judith Jdt 18 11 19 Non est talis mulier super terram in aspectu, in pulchritudine, et in sensu verborum. +Judith Jdt 18 11 20 Et dixit ad illam Holofernes : Benefecit Deus, qui misit te ante populum, ut des illum tu in manibus nostris : +Judith Jdt 18 11 21 et quoniam bona est promissio tua, si fecerit mihi hoc Deus tuus, erit et Deus meus, et tu in domo Nabuchodonosor magna eris, et nomen tuum nominabitur in universa terra. +Judith Jdt 18 12 1 Tunc jussit eam introire ubi repositi erant thesauri ejus, et jussit illic manere eam, et constituit quid daretur illi de convivio suo. +Judith Jdt 18 12 2 Cui respondit Judith, et dixit : Nunc non potero manducare ex his quæ mihi præcipis tribui, ne veniat super me offensio : ex his autem quæ mihi detuli, manducabo. +Judith Jdt 18 12 3 Cui Holofernes ait : Si defecerint tibi ista, quæ tecum detulisti, quid faciemus tibi ? +Judith Jdt 18 12 4 Et dixit Judith : Vivit anima tua, domine meus, quoniam non expendet omnia hæc ancilla tua, donec faciat Deus in manu mea hæc quæ cogitavi. Et induxerunt illam servi ejus in tabernaculum quod præceperat. +Judith Jdt 18 12 5 Et petiit dum introiret, ut daretur ei copia nocte et ante lucem egrediendi foras ad orationem, et deprecandi Dominum. +Judith Jdt 18 12 6 Et præcepit cubiculariis suis ut sicut placeret illi, exiret et introiret ad adorandum Deum suum per triduum : +Judith Jdt 18 12 7 et exibat noctibus in vallem Bethuliæ, et baptizabat se in fonte aquæ. +Judith Jdt 18 12 8 Et ut ascendebat, orabat Dominum Deum Israël ut dirigeret viam ejus ad liberationem populi sui. +Judith Jdt 18 12 9 Et introiens, munda manebat in tabernaculo usque dum acciperet escam suam in vespere. +Judith Jdt 18 12 10 Et factum est, in quarto die Holofernes fecit cœnam servis suis, et dixit ad Vagao eunuchum suum : Vade, et suade Hebræam illam ut sponte consentiat habitare mecum. +Judith Jdt 18 12 11 Fœdum est enim apud Assyrios, si femina irrideat virum agendo ut immunis ab eo transeat. +Judith Jdt 18 12 12 Tunc introivit Vagao ad Judith, et dixit : Non vereatur bona puella introire ad dominum meum, ut honorificetur ante faciem ejus, ut manducet cum eo, et bibat vinum in jucunditate. +Judith Jdt 18 12 13 Cui Judith respondit : Quæ ego sum, ut contradicam domino meo ? +Judith Jdt 18 12 14 omne quod erit ante oculos ejus bonum et optimum, faciam. Quidquid autem illi placuerit, hoc mihi erit optimum omnibus diebus vitæ meæ. +Judith Jdt 18 12 15 Et surrexit, et ornavit se vestimento suo, et ingressa stetit ante faciem ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 12 16 Cor autem Holofernes concussum est : erat enim ardens in concupiscentia ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 12 17 Et dixit ad eam Holofernes : Bibe nunc, et accumbe in jucunditate, quoniam invenisti gratiam coram me. +Judith Jdt 18 12 18 Et dixit Judith : Bibam, domine, quoniam magnificata est anima mea hodie præ omnibus diebus meis. +Judith Jdt 18 12 19 Et accepit, et manducavit et bibit coram ipso ea quæ paraverat illi ancilla ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 12 20 Et jucundus factus est Holofernes ad eam, bibitque vinum multum nimis, quantum numquam biberat in vita sua. +Judith Jdt 18 13 1 Ut autem sero factum est, festinaverunt servi illius ad hospitia sua, et conclusit Vagao ostia cubiculi, et abiit. +Judith Jdt 18 13 2 Erant autem omnes fatigati a vino, +Judith Jdt 18 13 3 eratque Judith sola in cubiculo. +Judith Jdt 18 13 4 Porro Holofernes jacebat in lecto, nimia ebrietate sopitus. +Judith Jdt 18 13 5 Dixitque Judith puellæ suæ ut staret foris ante cubiculum, et observaret. +Judith Jdt 18 13 6 Stetitque Judith ante lectum, orans cum lacrimis, et labiorum motu in silentio, +Judith Jdt 18 13 7 dicens : Confirma me, Domine Deus Israël, et respice in hac hora ad opera manuum mearum, ut, sicut promisisti, Jerusalem civitatem tuam erigas : et hoc quod credens per te posse fieri cogitavi, perficiam. +Judith Jdt 18 13 8 Et cum hæc dixisset, accessit ad columnam quæ erat ad caput lectuli ejus, et pugionem ejus, qui in ea ligatus pendebat, exsolvit. +Judith Jdt 18 13 9 Cumque evaginasset illum, apprehendit comam capitis ejus, et ait : Confirma me, Domine Deus, in hac hora. +Judith Jdt 18 13 10 Et percussit bis in cervicem ejus, et abscidit caput ejus, et abstulit conopeum ejus a columnis, et evolvit corpus ejus truncum. +Judith Jdt 18 13 11 Et post pusillum exivit, et tradidit caput Holofernis ancillæ suæ, et jussit ut mitteret illud in peram suam. +Judith Jdt 18 13 12 Et exierunt duæ, secundum consuetudinem suam, quasi ad orationem, et transierunt castra, et gyrantes vallem, venerunt ad portam civitatis. +Judith Jdt 18 13 13 Et dixit Judith a longe custodibus murorum : Aperite portas, quoniam nobiscum est Deus, qui fecit virtutem in Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 13 14 Et factum est cum audissent viri vocem ejus, vocaverunt presbyteros civitatis. +Judith Jdt 18 13 15 Et concurrerunt ad eam omnes, a minimo usque ad maximum : quoniam sperabant eam jam non esse venturam. +Judith Jdt 18 13 16 Et accendentes luminaria, congyraverunt circa eam universi : illa autem ascendens in eminentiorem locum, jussit fieri silentium. Cumque omnes tacuissent, +Judith Jdt 18 13 17 dixit Judith : Laudate Dominum Deum nostrum, qui non deseruit sperantes in se, +Judith Jdt 18 13 18 et in me ancilla sua adimplevit misericordiam suam, quam promisit domui Israël : et interfecit in manu mea hostem populi sui hac nocte. +Judith Jdt 18 13 19 Et proferens de pera caput Holofernis, ostendit illis, dicens : Ecce caput Holofernis principis militiæ Assyriorum, et ecce conopeum illius, in quo recumbebat in ebrietate sua, ubi per manum feminæ percussit illum Dominus Deus noster. +Judith Jdt 18 13 20 Vivit autem ipse Dominus, quoniam custodivit me angelus ejus et hinc euntem, et ibi commorantem, et inde huc revertentem, et non permisit me Dominus ancillam suam coinquinari, sed sine pollutione peccati revocavit me vobis gaudentem in victoria sua, in evasione mea, et in liberatione vestra. +Judith Jdt 18 13 21 Confitemini illi omnes, quoniam bonus, quoniam in sæculum misericordia ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 13 22 Universi autem adorantes Dominum, dixerunt ad eam : Benedixit te Dominus in virtute sua, quia per te ad nihilum redegit inimicos nostros. +Judith Jdt 18 13 23 Porro Ozias princeps populi Israël dixit ad eam : Benedicta es tu, filia, a Domino Deo excelso præ omnibus mulieribus super terram. +Judith Jdt 18 13 24 Benedictus Dominus, qui creavit cælum et terram, qui te direxit in vulnera capitis principis inimicorum nostrorum : +Judith Jdt 18 13 25 quia hodie nomen tuum ita magnificavit, ut non recedat laus tua de ore hominum qui memores fuerint virtutis Domini in æternum, pro quibus non pepercisti animæ tuæ propter angustias et tribulationem generis tui, sed subvenisti ruinæ ante conspectum Dei nostri. +Judith Jdt 18 13 26 Et dixit omnis populus : Fiat, fiat. +Judith Jdt 18 13 27 Porro Achior vocatus venit, et dixit ei Judith : Deus Israël, cui tu testimonium dedisti quod ulciscatur se de inimicis suis, ipse caput omnium incredulorum incidit hac nocte in manu mea. +Judith Jdt 18 13 28 Et ut probes quia ita est, ecce caput Holofernis, qui in contemptu superbiæ suæ Deum Israël contempsit, et tibi interitum minabatur, dicens : Cum captus fuerit populus Israël, gladio perforari præcipiam latera tua. +Judith Jdt 18 13 29 Videns autem Achior caput Holofernis, angustiatus præ pavore cecidit in faciem suam super terram, et æstuavit anima ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 13 30 Postea vero quam resumpto spiritu recreatus est, procidit ad pedes ejus, et adoravit eam, et dixit : +Judith Jdt 18 13 31 Benedicta tu a Deo tuo in omni tabernaculo Jacob, quoniam in omni gente quæ audierit nomen tuum, magnificabitur super te Deus Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 14 1 Dixit autem Judith ad omnem populum : Audite me, fratres : suspendite caput hoc super muros nostros : +Judith Jdt 18 14 2 et erit, cum exierit sol, accipiat unusquisque arma sua, et exite cum impetu, non ut descendatis deorsum, sed quasi impetum facientes. +Judith Jdt 18 14 3 Tunc exploratores necesse erit ut fugiant ad principem suum excitandum ad pugnam. +Judith Jdt 18 14 4 Cumque duces eorum cucurrerint ad tabernaculum Holofernis, et invenerint eum truncum in suo sanguine volutatum, decidet super eos timor. +Judith Jdt 18 14 5 Cumque cognoveritis fugere eos, ite post illos securi, quoniam Dominus conteret eos sub pedibus vestris. +Judith Jdt 18 14 6 Tunc Achior, videns virtutem quam fecit Deus Israël, relicto gentilitatis ritu, credidit Deo, et circumcidit carnem præputii sui, et appositus est ad populum Israël, et omnis successio generis ejus usque in hodiernum diem. +Judith Jdt 18 14 7 Mox autem ut ortus est dies, suspenderunt super muros caput Holofernis, accepitque unusquisque vir arma sua, et egressi sunt cum grandi strepitu et ululatu. +Judith Jdt 18 14 8 Quod videntes exploratores, ad tabernaculum Holofernis cucurrerunt. +Judith Jdt 18 14 9 Porro hi qui in tabernaculo erant, venientes, et ante ingressum cubiculi perstrepentes, excitandi gratia, inquietudinem arte moliebantur, ut non ab excitantibus, sed a sonantibus Holofernes evigilaret. +Judith Jdt 18 14 10 Nullus enim audebat cubiculum virtutis Assyriorum pulsando aut intrando aperire. +Judith Jdt 18 14 11 Sed cum venissent ejus duces ac tribuni, et universi majores exercitus regis Assyriorum, dixerunt cubiculariis : +Judith Jdt 18 14 12 Intrate, et excitate illum, quoniam egressi mures de cavernis suis, ausi sunt provocare nos ad prælium. +Judith Jdt 18 14 13 Tunc ingressus Vagao cubiculum ejus, stetit ante cortinam, et plausum fecit manibus suis : suspicabatur enim illum cum Judith dormire. +Judith Jdt 18 14 14 Sed cum nullum motum jacentis sensu aurium caperet, accessit proximans ad cortinam, et elevans eam, vidensque cadaver absque capite Holofernis in suo sanguine tabefactum jacere super terram, exclamavit voce magna cum fletu, et scidit vestimenta sua. +Judith Jdt 18 14 15 Et ingressus tabernaculum Judith, non invenit eam, et exiliit foras ad populum, +Judith Jdt 18 14 16 et dixit : Una mulier hebræa fecit confusionem in domo regis Nabuchodonosor : ecce enim Holofernes jacet in terra, et caput ejus non est in illo. +Judith Jdt 18 14 17 Quod cum audissent principes virtutis Assyriorum, sciderunt omnes vestimenta sua, et intolerabilis timor et tremor cecidit super eos, et turbati sunt animi eorum valde. +Judith Jdt 18 14 18 Et factus est clamor incomparabilis in medio castrorum eorum. +Judith Jdt 18 15 1 Cumque omnis exercitus decollatum Holofernem audisset, fugit mens et consilium ab eis, et solo tremore et metu agitati, fugæ præsidium sumunt, +Judith Jdt 18 15 2 ita ut nullus loqueretur cum proximo suo, sed inclinato capite, relictis omnibus, evadere festinabant Hebræos, quos armatos super se venire audiebant, fugientes per vias camporum et semitas collium. +Judith Jdt 18 15 3 Videntes itaque filii Israël fugientes, secuti sunt illos. Descenderuntque clangentes tubis, et ululantes post ipsos. +Judith Jdt 18 15 4 Et quoniam Assyrii non adunati, in fugam ibant præcipites : filii autem Israël uno agmine persequentes debilitabant omnes quos invenire potuissent. +Judith Jdt 18 15 5 Misit itaque Ozias nuntios per omnes civitates et regiones Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 15 6 Omnis itaque regio, omnisque urbs electam juventutem armatam misit post eos, et persecuti sunt eos in ore gladii, quousque pervenirent ad extremitatem finium suorum. +Judith Jdt 18 15 7 Reliqui autem qui erant in Bethulia, ingressi sunt castra Assyriorum, et prædam quam fugientes Assyrii reliquerant, abstulerunt, et onustati sunt valde. +Judith Jdt 18 15 8 Hi vero qui victores reversi sunt ad Bethuliam, omnia quæ erant illorum attulerunt secum, ita ut non esset numerus in pecoribus et jumentis et universis mobilibus eorum, ut a minimo usque ad maximum omnes divites fierent de prædationibus eorum. +Judith Jdt 18 15 9 Joacim autem summus pontifex de Jerusalem venit in Bethuliam cum universis presbyteris suis ut videret Judith. +Judith Jdt 18 15 10 Quæ cum exisset ad illum, benedixerunt eam omnes una voce, dicentes : Tu gloria Jerusalem ; tu lætitia Israël ; tu honorificentia populi nostri : +Judith Jdt 18 15 11 quia fecisti viriliter, et confortatum est cor tuum, eo quod castitatem amaveris, et post virum tuum, alterum nescieris : ideo et manus Domini confortavit te, et ideo eris benedicta in æternum. +Judith Jdt 18 15 12 Et dixit omnis populus : Fiat, fiat. +Judith Jdt 18 15 13 Per dies autem triginta, vix collecta sunt spolia Assyriorum a populo Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 15 14 Porro autem universa quæ Holofernis peculiaria fuisse probata sunt, dederunt Judith in auro, et argento, et vestibus, et gemmis, et omni supellectili : et tradita sunt omnia illi a populo. +Judith Jdt 18 15 15 Et omnes populi gaudebant cum mulieribus, et virginibus, et juvenibus, in organis et citharis. +Judith Jdt 18 16 1 Tunc cantavit canticum hoc Domino Judith, dicens : +Judith Jdt 18 16 2 Incipite Domino in tympanis ; cantate Domino in cymbalis ; modulamini illi psalmum novum : exaltate, et invocate nomen ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 16 3 Dominus conterens bella, Dominus nomen est illi. +Judith Jdt 18 16 4 Qui posuit castra sua in medio populi sui, ut eriperet nos de manu omnium inimicorum nostrorum. +Judith Jdt 18 16 5 Venit Assur ex montibus ab aquilone in multitudine fortitudinis suæ : cujus multitudo obturavit torrentes, et equi eorum cooperuerunt valles. +Judith Jdt 18 16 6 Dixit se incensurum fines meos, et juvenes meos occisurum gladio ; infantes meos dare in prædam, et virgines in captivitatem. +Judith Jdt 18 16 7 Dominus autem omnipotens nocuit eum, et tradidit eum in manus feminæ, et confodit eum. +Judith Jdt 18 16 8 Non enim cecidit potens eorum a juvenibus, nec filii Titan percusserunt eum, nec excelsi gigantes opposuerunt se illi : sed Judith filia Merari in specie faciei suæ dissolvit eum. +Judith Jdt 18 16 9 Exuit enim se vestimento viduitatis, et induit se vestimento lætitiæ in exultatione filiorum Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 16 10 Unxit faciem suam unguento, et colligavit cincinnos suos mitra ; accepit stolam novam ad decipiendum illum. +Judith Jdt 18 16 11 Sandalia ejus rapuerunt oculos ejus ; pulchritudo ejus captivam fecit animam ejus : amputavit pugione cervicem ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 16 12 Horruerunt Persæ constantiam ejus, et Medi audaciam ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 16 13 Tunc ululaverunt castra Assyriorum, quando apparuerunt humiles mei, arescentes in siti. +Judith Jdt 18 16 14 Filii puellarum compunxerunt eos, et sicut pueros fugientes occiderunt eos : perierunt in prælio a facie Domini Dei mei. +Judith Jdt 18 16 15 Hymnum cantemus Domino ; hymnum novum cantemus Deo nostro. +Judith Jdt 18 16 16 Adonai Domine, magnus es tu, et præclarus in virtute tua : et quem superare nemo potest. +Judith Jdt 18 16 17 Tibi serviat omnis creatura tua, quia dixisti, et facta sunt ; misisti spiritum tuum, et creata sunt : et non est qui resistat voci tuæ. +Judith Jdt 18 16 18 Montes a fundamentis movebuntur cum aquis ; petræ, sicut cera, liquescent ante faciem tuam. +Judith Jdt 18 16 19 Qui autem timent te, magni erunt apud te per omnia. +Judith Jdt 18 16 20 Væ genti insurgenti super genus meum : Dominus enim omnipotens vindicabit in eis ; in die judicii visitabit illos. +Judith Jdt 18 16 21 Dabit enim ignem et vermes in carnes eorum, ut urantur et sentiant usque in sempiternum. +Judith Jdt 18 16 22 Et factum est post hæc, omnis populus post victoriam venit in Jerusalem adorare Dominum : et mox ut purificati sunt, obtulerunt omnes holocausta, et vota, et repromissiones suas. +Judith Jdt 18 16 23 Porro Judith universa vasa bellica Holofernis, quæ dedit illi populus, et conopeum quod ipsa sustulerat de cubili ipsius, obtulit in anathema oblivionis. +Judith Jdt 18 16 24 Erat autem populus jucundus secundum faciem sanctorum : et per tres menses gaudium hujus victoriæ celebratum est cum Judith. +Judith Jdt 18 16 25 Post dies autem illos, unusquisque rediit in domum suam : et Judith magna facta est in Bethulia, et præclarior erat universæ terræ Israël. +Judith Jdt 18 16 26 Erat enim virtuti castitas adjuncta, ita ut non cognosceret virum omnibus diebus vitæ suæ, ex quo defunctus est Manasses vir ejus. +Judith Jdt 18 16 27 Erat autem, diebus festis, procedens cum magna gloria. +Judith Jdt 18 16 28 Mansit autem in domo viri sui annos centum quinque, et dimisit abram suam liberam : et defuncta est ac sepulta cum viro suo in Bethulia. +Judith Jdt 18 16 29 Luxitque illam omnis populus diebus septem. +Judith Jdt 18 16 30 In omni autem spatio vitæ ejus non fuit qui perturbaret Israël, et post mortem ejus annis multis. +Judith Jdt 18 16 31 Dies autem victoriæ hujus festivitatis ab Hebræis in numero sanctorum dierum accipitur, et colitur a Judæis ex illo tempore usque in præsentem diem. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 1 Diligite justitiam, qui judicatis terram. Sentite de Domino in bonitate, et in simplicitate cordis quærite illum : +Wisdom Wis 25 1 2 quoniam invenitur ab his qui non tentant illum, apparet autem eis qui fidem habent in illum. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 3 Perversæ enim cogitationes separant a Deo ; probata autem virtus corripit insipientes. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 4 Quoniam in malevolam animam non introibit sapientia, nec habitabit in corpore subdito peccatis. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 5 Spiritus enim sanctus disciplinæ effugiet fictum, et auferet se a cogitationibus quæ sunt sine intellectu, et corripietur a superveniente iniquitate. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 6 Benignus est enim spiritus sapientiæ, et non liberabit maledicum a labiis suis : quoniam renum illius testis est Deus, et cordis illius scrutator est verus, et linguæ ejus auditor. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 7 Quoniam spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum, et hoc quod continet omnia, scientiam habet vocis. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 8 Propter hoc qui loquitur iniqua non potest latere, nec præteriet illum corripiens judicium. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 9 In cogitationibus enim impii interrogatio erit ; sermonum autem illius auditio ad Deum veniet, ad correptionem iniquitatum illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 10 Quoniam auris zeli audit omnia, et tumultus murmurationum non abscondetur. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 11 Custodite ergo vos a murmuratione quæ nihil prodest, et a detractione parcite linguæ : quoniam sermo obscurus in vacuum non ibit, os autem quod mentitur occidit animam. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 12 Nolite zelare mortem in errore vitæ vestræ, neque acquiratis perditionem in operibus manuum vestrarum. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 13 Quoniam Deus mortem non fecit, nec lætatur in perditione vivorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 14 Creavit enim ut essent omnia, et sanabiles fecit nationes orbis terrarum : et non est in illis medicamentum exterminii, nec inferorum regnum in terra. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 15 Justitia enim perpetua est, et immortalis. +Wisdom Wis 25 1 16 Impii autem manibus et verbis accersierunt illam, et æstimantes illam amicam, defluxerunt ; et sponsiones posuerunt ad illam, quoniam digni sunt qui sint ex parte illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 1 Dixerunt enim cogitantes apud se non recte : Exiguum et cum tædio est tempus vitæ nostræ, et non est refrigerium in fine hominis, et non est qui agnitus sit reversus ab inferis. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 2 Quia ex nihilo nati sumus, et post hoc erimus tamquam non fuerimus. Quoniam fumus flatus est in naribus nostris, et sermo scintilla ad commovendum cor nostrum : +Wisdom Wis 25 2 3 qua extincta, cinis erit corpus nostrum, et spiritus diffundetur tamquam mollis aër ; et transibit vita nostra tamquam vestigium nubis, et sicut nebula dissolvetur quæ fugata est a radiis solis, et a calore illius aggravata. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 4 Et nomen nostrum oblivionem accipiet per tempus, et nemo memoriam habebit operum nostrorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 5 Umbræ enim transitus est tempus nostrum, et non est reversio finis nostri : quoniam consignata est, et nemo revertitur. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 6 Venite ergo, et fruamur bonis quæ sunt, et utamur creatura tamquam in juventute celeriter. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 7 Vino pretioso et unguentis nos impleamus, et non prætereat nos flos temporis. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 8 Coronemus nos rosis antequam marcescant ; nullum pratum sit quod non pertranseat luxuria nostra : +Wisdom Wis 25 2 9 nemo nostrum exsors sit luxuriæ nostræ. Ubique relinquamus signa lætitiæ, quoniam hæc est pars nostra, et hæc est sors. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 10 Opprimamus pauperem justum, et non parcamus viduæ, nec veterani revereamur canos multi temporis : +Wisdom Wis 25 2 11 sit autem fortitudo nostra lex justitiæ ; quod enim infirmum est, inutile invenitur. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 12 Circumveniamus ergo justum, quoniam inutilis est nobis, et contrarius est operibus nostris, et improperat nobis peccata legis, et diffamat in nos peccata disciplinæ nostræ. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 13 Promittit se scientiam Dei habere, et filium Dei se nominat. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 14 Factus est nobis in traductionem cogitationum nostrarum. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 15 Gravis est nobis etiam ad videndum, quoniam dissimilis est aliis vita illius, et immutatæ sunt viæ ejus. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 16 Tamquam nugaces æstimati sumus ab illo, et abstinet se a viis nostris tamquam ab immunditiis, et præfert novissima justorum, et gloriatur patrem se habere Deum. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 17 Videamus ergo si sermones illius veri sint, et tentemus quæ ventura sunt illi, et sciemus quæ erunt novissima illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 18 Si enim est verus filius Dei, suscipiet illum, et liberabit eum de manibus contrariorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 19 Contumelia et tormento interrogemus eum, ut sciamus reverentiam ejus, et probemus patientiam illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 20 Morte turpissima condemnemus eum ; erit enim ei respectus ex sermonibus illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 21 Hæc cogitaverunt, et erraverunt : excæcavit enim illos malitia eorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 22 Et nescierunt sacramenta Dei : neque mercedem speraverunt justitiæ, nec judicaverunt honorem animarum sanctarum. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 23 Quoniam Deus creavit hominem inexterminabilem, et ad imaginem similitudinis suæ fecit illum. +Wisdom Wis 25 2 24 Invidia autem diaboli mors introivit in orbem terrarum : +Wisdom Wis 25 2 25 imitantur autem illum qui sunt ex parte illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 1 Justorum autem animæ in manu Dei sunt, et non tanget illos tormentum mortis. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 2 Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori, et æstimata est afflictio exitus illorum, +Wisdom Wis 25 3 3 et quod a nobis est iter exterminium ; illi autem sunt in pace : +Wisdom Wis 25 3 4 etsi coram hominibus tormenta passi sunt, spes illorum immortalitate plena est. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 5 In paucis vexati sunt, in multis bene disponentur, quoniam Deus tentavit eos, et invenit illos dignos se. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 6 Tamquam aurum in fornace probavit illos, et quasi holocausti hostiam accepit illos, et in tempore erit respectus illorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 7 Fulgebunt justi et tamquam scintillæ in arundineto discurrent. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 8 Judicabunt nationes, et dominabuntur populis, et regnabit Dominus illorum in perpetuum. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 9 Qui confidunt in illo intelligent veritatem, et fideles in dilectione acquiescent illi, quoniam donum et pax est electis ejus. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 10 Impii autem secundum quæ cogitaverunt correptionem habebunt : qui neglexerunt justum, et a Domino recesserunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 11 Sapientiam enim et disciplinam qui abjicit infelix est : et vacua est spes illorum, et labores sine fructu, et inutilia opera eorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 12 Mulieres eorum insensatæ sunt, et nequissimi filii eorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 13 Maledicta creatura eorum, quoniam felix est sterilis ; et incoinquinata, quæ nescivit thorum in delicto, habebit fructum in respectione animarum sanctarum ; +Wisdom Wis 25 3 14 et spado qui non operatus est per manus suas iniquitatem, nec cogitavit adversus Deum nequissima : dabitur enim illi fidei donum electum, et sors in templo Dei acceptissima. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 15 Bonorum enim laborum gloriosus est fructus, et quæ non concidat radix sapientiæ. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 16 Filii autem adulterorum in inconsummatione erunt, et ab iniquo thoro semen exterminabitur. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 17 Et si quidem longæ vitæ erunt, in nihilum computabuntur, et sine honore erit novissima senectus illorum : +Wisdom Wis 25 3 18 et si celerius defuncti fuerint, non habebunt spem, nec in die agnitionis allocutionem. +Wisdom Wis 25 3 19 Nationis enim iniquæ diræ sunt consummationes. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 1 O quam pulchra est casta generatio, cum claritate ! immortalis est enim memoria illius, quoniam et apud Deum nota est, et apud homines. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 2 Cum præsens est, imitantur illam, et desiderant eam cum se eduxerit ; et in perpetuum coronata triumphat, incoinquinatorum certaminum præmium vincens. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 3 Multigena autem impiorum multitudo non erit utilis, et spuria vitulamina non dabunt radices altas, nec stabile firmamentum collocabunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 4 Etsi in ramis in tempore germinaverint, infirmiter posita, a vento commovebuntur, et a nimietate ventorum eradicabuntur. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 5 Confringentur enim rami inconsummati ; et fructus illorum inutiles et acerbi ad manducandum, et ad nihilum apti. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 6 Ex iniquis enim somnis filii qui nascuntur, testes sunt nequitiæ adversus parentes in interrogatione sua. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 7 Justus autem si morte præoccupatus fuerit, in refrigerio erit ; +Wisdom Wis 25 4 8 senectus enim venerabilis est non diuturna, neque annorum numero computata : cani autem sunt sensus hominis, +Wisdom Wis 25 4 9 et ætas senectutis vita immaculata. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 10 Placens Deo factus est dilectus, et vivens inter peccatores translatus est. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 11 Raptus est, ne malitia mutaret intellectum ejus, aut ne fictio deciperet animam illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 12 Fascinatio enim nugacitatis obscurat bona, et inconstantia concupiscentiæ transvertit sensum sine malitia. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 13 Consummatus in brevi, explevit tempora multa ; +Wisdom Wis 25 4 14 placita enim erat Deo anima illius : propter hoc properavit educere illum de medio iniquitatum. Populi autem videntes, et non intelligentes, nec ponentes in præcordiis talia, +Wisdom Wis 25 4 15 quoniam gratia Dei et misericordia est in sanctos ejus, et respectus in electos illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 16 Condemnat autem justus mortuus vivos impios, et juventus celerius consummata longam vitam injusti. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 17 Videbunt enim finem sapientis, et non intelligent quid cogitaverit de illo Deus, et quare munierit illum Dominus. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 18 Videbunt, et contemnent eum ; illos autem Dominus irridebit. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 19 Et erunt post hæc decidentes sine honore, et in contumelia inter mortuos in perpetuum : quoniam disrumpet illos inflatos sine voce, et commovebit illos a fundamentis, et usque ad supremum desolabuntur, et erunt gementes, et memoria illorum peribit. +Wisdom Wis 25 4 20 Venient in cogitatione peccatorum suorum timidi, et traducent illos ex adverso iniquitates ipsorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 1 Tunc stabunt justi in magna constantia adversus eos qui se angustiaverunt, et qui abstulerunt labores eorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 2 Videntes turbabuntur timore horribili, et mirabuntur in subitatione insperatæ salutis ; +Wisdom Wis 25 5 3 dicentes intra se, pœnitentiam agentes, et præ angustia spiritus gementes : Hi sunt quos habuimus aliquando in derisum, et in similitudinem improperii. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 4 Nos insensati, vitam illorum æstimabamus insaniam, et finem illorum sine honore ; +Wisdom Wis 25 5 5 ecce quomodo computati sunt inter filios Dei, et inter sanctos sors illorum est. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 6 Ergo erravimus a via veritatis, et justitiæ lumen non luxit nobis, et sol intelligentiæ non est ortus nobis. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 7 Lassati sumus in via iniquitatis et perditionis, et ambulavimus vias difficiles : viam autem Domini ignoravimus. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 8 Quid nobis profuit superbia ? aut divitiarum jactantia quid contulit nobis ? +Wisdom Wis 25 5 9 Transierunt omnia illa tamquam umbra, et tamquam nuntius percurrens, +Wisdom Wis 25 5 10 et tamquam navis quæ pertransit fluctuantem aquam, cujus cum præterierit non est vestigium invenire, neque semitam carinæ illius in fluctibus ; +Wisdom Wis 25 5 11 aut tamquam avis quæ transvolat in aëre, cujus nullum invenitur argumentum itineris, sed tantum sonitus alarum verberans levem ventum, et scindens per vim itineris aërem : commotis alis transvolavit, et post hoc nullum signum invenitur itineris illius ; +Wisdom Wis 25 5 12 aut tamquam sagitta emissa in locum destinatum, divisus aër continuo in se reclusus est, ut ignoretur transitus illius : +Wisdom Wis 25 5 13 sic et nos nati continuo desivimus esse ; et virtutis quidem nullum signum valuimus ostendere, in malignitate autem nostra consumpti sumus. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 14 Talia dixerunt in inferno hi qui peccaverunt : +Wisdom Wis 25 5 15 quoniam spes impii tamquam lanugo est quæ a vento tollitur, et tamquam spuma gracilis quæ a procella dispergitur, et tamquam fumus qui a vento diffusus est, et tamquam memoria hospitis unius diei prætereuntis. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 16 Justi autem in perpetuum vivent, et apud Dominum est merces eorum, et cogitatio illorum apud Altissimum. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 17 Ideo accipient regnum decoris, et diadema speciei de manu Domini : quoniam dextera sua teget eos, et brachio sancto suo defendet illos. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 18 Accipiet armaturam zelus illius, et armabit creaturam ad ultionem inimicorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 19 Induet pro thorace justitiam, et accipiet pro galea judicium certum ; +Wisdom Wis 25 5 20 sumet scutum inexpugnabile æquitatem. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 21 Acuet autem duram iram in lanceam, et pugnabit cum illo orbis terrarum contra insensatos. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 22 Ibunt directe emissiones fulgurum, et tamquam a bene curvato arcu nubium exterminabuntur, et ad certum locum insilient. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 23 Et a petrosa ira plenæ mittentur grandines ; excandescet in illos aqua maris, et flumina concurrent duriter. +Wisdom Wis 25 5 24 Contra illos stabit spiritus virtutis, et tamquam turbo venti dividet illos ; et ad eremum perducet omnem terram iniquitas illorum, et malignitas evertet sedes potentium. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 1 Melior est sapientia quam vires, et vir prudens quam fortis. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 2 Audite ergo, reges, et intelligite ; discite, judices finium terræ. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 3 Præbete aures, vos qui continetis multitudines, et placetis vobis in turbis nationum. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 4 Quoniam data est a Domino potestas vobis, et virtus ab Altissimo : qui interrogabit opera vestra, et cogitationes scrutabitur. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 5 Quoniam cum essetis ministri regni illius, non recte judicastis, nec custodistis legem justitiæ, neque secundum voluntatem Dei ambulastis. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 6 Horrende et cito apparebit vobis, quoniam judicium durissimum his qui præsunt fiet. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 7 Exiguo enim conceditur misericordia ; potentes autem potenter tormenta patientur. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 8 Non enim subtrahet personam cujusquam Deus, nec verebitur magnitudinem ejus cujusquam, quoniam pusillum et magnum ipse fecit, et æqualiter cura est illi de omnibus. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 9 Fortioribus autem fortior instat cruciatio. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 10 Ad vos ergo, reges, sunt hi sermones mei : ut discatis sapientiam, et non excidatis. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 11 Qui enim custodierint justa juste, justificabuntur ; et qui didicerint ista, invenient quid respondeant. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 12 Concupiscite ergo sermones meos ; diligite illos, et habebitis disciplinam. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 13 Clara est, et quæ numquam marcescit, sapientia : et facile videtur ab his qui diligunt eam, et invenitur ab his qui quærunt illam. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 14 Præoccupat qui se concupiscunt, ut illis se prior ostendat. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 15 Qui de luce vigilaverit ad illam non laborabit ; assidentem enim illam foribus suis inveniet. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 16 Cogitare ergo de illa sensus est consummatus, et qui vigilaverit propter illam cito securus erit. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 17 Quoniam dignos se ipsa circuit quærens, et in viis ostendit se hilariter, et in omni providentia occurrit illis. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 18 Initium enim illius verissima est disciplinæ concupiscentia. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 19 Cura ergo disciplinæ dilectio est, et dilectio custodia legum illius est ; custoditio autem legum consummatio incorruptionis est ; +Wisdom Wis 25 6 20 incorruptio autem facit esse proximum Deo. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 21 Concupiscentia itaque sapientiæ deducit ad regnum perpetuum. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 22 Si ergo delectamini sedibus et sceptris, o reges populi, diligite sapientiam, ut in perpetuum regnetis : +Wisdom Wis 25 6 23 diligite lumen sapientiæ, omnes qui præestis populis. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 24 Quid est autem sapientia, et quemadmodum facta sit, referam, et non abscondam a vobis sacramenta Dei : sed ab initio nativitatis investigabo, et ponam in lucem scientiam illius, et non præteribo veritatem. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 25 Neque cum invidia tabescente iter habebo, quoniam talis homo non erit particeps sapientiæ. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 26 Multitudo autem sapientium sanitas est orbis terrarum, et rex sapiens stabilimentum populi est. +Wisdom Wis 25 6 27 Ergo accipite disciplinam per sermones meos, et proderit vobis. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 1 Sum quidem et ego mortalis homo, similis omnibus, et ex genere terreni illius qui prior factus est : et in ventre matris figuratus sum caro ; +Wisdom Wis 25 7 2 decem mensium tempore coagulatus sum in sanguine : ex semine hominis, et delectamento somni conveniente. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 3 Et ego natus accepi communem aërem, et in similiter factam decidi terram, et primam vocem similem omnibus emisi plorans. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 4 In involumentis nutritus sum, et curis magnis : +Wisdom Wis 25 7 5 nemo enim ex regibus aliud habuit nativitatis initium. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 6 Unus ergo introitus est omnibus ad vitam, et similis exitus. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 7 Propter hoc optavi, et datus est mihi sensus ; et invocavi, et venit in me spiritus sapientiæ : +Wisdom Wis 25 7 8 et præposui illam regnis et sedibus, et divitias nihil esse duxi in comparatione illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 9 Nec comparavi illi lapidem pretiosum, quoniam omne aurum in comparatione illius arena est exigua, et tamquam lutum æstimabitur argentum in conspectu illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 10 Super salutem et speciem dilexi illam, et proposui pro luce habere illam, quoniam inextinguibile est lumen illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 11 Venerunt autem mihi omnia bona pariter cum illa, et innumerabilis honestas per manus illius ; +Wisdom Wis 25 7 12 et lætatus sum in omnibus, quoniam antecedebat me ista sapientia, et ignorabam quoniam horum omnium mater est. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 13 Quam sine fictione didici, et sine invidia communico, et honestatem illius non abscondo. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 14 Infinitus enim thesaurus est hominibus ; quo qui usi sunt, participes facti sunt amicitiæ Dei, propter disciplinæ dona commendati. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 15 Mihi autem dedit Deus dicere ex sententia, et præsumere digna horum quæ mihi dantur : quoniam ipse sapientiæ dux est, et sapientium emendator. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 16 In manu enim illius et nos et sermones nostri, et omnis sapientia, et operum scientia, et disciplina. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 17 Ipse enim dedit mihi horum quæ sunt scientiam veram, ut sciam dispositionem orbis terrarum, et virtutes elementorum, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 18 initium, et consummationem, et medietatem temporum, vicissitudinum permutationes, et commutationes temporum, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 19 anni cursus, et stellarum dispositiones, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 20 naturas animalium, et iras bestiarum, vim ventorum, et cogitationes hominum, differentias virgultorum, et virtutes radicum. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 21 Et quæcumque sunt absconsa et improvisa didici : omnium enim artifex docuit me sapientia. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 22 Est enim in illa spiritus intelligentiæ, sanctus, unicus, multiplex, subtilis, disertus, mobilis, incoinquinatus, certus, suavis, amans bonum, acutus, quem nihil vetat, benefaciens, +Wisdom Wis 25 7 23 humanus, benignus, stabilis, certus, securus, omnem habens virtutem, omnia prospiciens, et qui capiat omnes spiritus, intelligibilis, mundus, subtilis. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 24 Omnibus enim mobilibus mobilior est sapientia : attingit autem ubique propter suam munditiam. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 25 Vapor est enim virtutis Dei, et emanatio quædam est claritatis omnipotentis Dei sincera, et ideo nihil inquinatum in eam incurrit : +Wisdom Wis 25 7 26 candor est enim lucis æternæ, et speculum sine macula Dei majestatis, et imago bonitatis illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 27 Et cum sit una, omnia potest ; et in se permanens omnia innovat : et per nationes in animas sanctas se transfert ; amicos Dei et prophetas constituit. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 28 Neminem enim diligit Deus, nisi eum qui cum sapientia inhabitat. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 29 Est enim hæc speciosior sole, et super omnem dispositionem stellarum : luci comparata, invenitur prior. +Wisdom Wis 25 7 30 Illi enim succedit nox ; sapientiam autem non vincit malitia. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 1 Attingit ergo a fine usque ad finem fortiter, et disponit omnia suaviter. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 2 Hanc amavi, et exquisivi a juventute mea, et quæsivi sponsam mihi eam assumere, et amator factus sum formæ illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 3 Generositatem illius glorificat, contubernium habens Dei ; sed et omnium Dominus dilexit illam. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 4 Doctrix enim est disciplinæ Dei, et electrix operum illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 5 Et si divitiæ appetuntur in vita, quid sapientia locupletius quæ operatur omnia ? +Wisdom Wis 25 8 6 Si autem sensus operatur, quis horum quæ sunt magis quam illa est artifex ? +Wisdom Wis 25 8 7 Et si justitiam quis diligit, labores hujus magnas habent virtutes : sobrietatem enim et prudentiam docet, et justitiam, et virtutem, quibus utilius nihil est in vita hominibus. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 8 Et si multitudinem scientiæ desiderat quis, scit præterita, et de futuris æstimat ; scit versutias sermonum, et dissolutiones argumentorum ; signa et monstra scit antequam fiant, et eventus temporum et sæculorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 9 Proposui ergo hanc adducere mihi ad convivendum, sciens quoniam mecum communicabit de bonis, et erit allocutio cogitationis et tædii mei. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 10 Habebo propter hanc claritatem ad turbas, et honorem apud seniores juvenis ; +Wisdom Wis 25 8 11 et acutus inveniar in judicio, et in conspectu potentium admirabilis ero, et facies principum mirabuntur me : +Wisdom Wis 25 8 12 tacentem me sustinebunt, et loquentem me respicient, et sermocinante me plura, manus ori suo imponent. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 13 Præterea habebo per hanc immortalitatem, et memoriam æternam his qui post me futuri sunt relinquam. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 14 Disponam populos, et nationes mihi erunt subditæ : +Wisdom Wis 25 8 15 timebunt me audientes reges horrendi. In multitudine videbor bonus, et in bello fortis. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 16 Intrans in domum meam, conquiescam cum illa : non enim habet amaritudinem conversatio illius, nec tædium convictus illius, sed lætitiam et gaudium. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 17 Hæc cogitans apud me et commemorans in corde meo, quoniam immortalitas est in cognatione sapientiæ, +Wisdom Wis 25 8 18 et in amicitia illius delectatio bona, et in operibus manuum illius honestas sine defectione, et in certamine loquelæ illius sapientia, et præclaritas in communicatione sermonum ipsius : circuibam quærens, ut mihi illam assumerem. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 19 Puer autem eram ingeniosus, et sortitus sum animam bonam. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 20 Et cum essem magis bonus, veni ad corpus incoinquinatum. +Wisdom Wis 25 8 21 Et ut scivi quoniam aliter non possem esse continens, nisi Deus det ; et hoc ipsum erat sapientiæ, scire cujus esset hoc donum : adii Dominum, et deprecatus sum illum, et dixi ex totis præcordiis meis : +Wisdom Wis 25 9 1 Deus patrum meorum, et Domine misericordiæ, qui fecisti omnia verbo tuo, +Wisdom Wis 25 9 2 et sapientia tua constituisti hominem, ut dominaretur creaturæ quæ a te facta est, +Wisdom Wis 25 9 3 ut disponat orbem terrarum in æquitate et justitia, et in directione cordis judicium judicet : +Wisdom Wis 25 9 4 da mihi sedium tuarum assistricem sapientiam, et noli me reprobare a pueris tuis : +Wisdom Wis 25 9 5 quoniam servus tuus sum ego, et filius ancillæ tuæ ; homo infirmus, et exigui temporis, et minor ad intellectum judicii et legum. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 6 Nam etsi quis erit consummatus inter filios hominum, si ab illo abfuerit sapientia tua, in nihilum computabitur. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 7 Tu elegisti me regem populo tuo, et judicem filiorum tuorum et filiarum : +Wisdom Wis 25 9 8 et dixisti me ædificare templum in monte sancto tuo, et in civitate habitationis tuæ altare : similitudinem tabernaculi sancti tui quod præparasti ab initio. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 9 Et tecum sapientia tua, quæ novit opera tua, quæ et affuit tunc cum orbem terrarum faceres, et sciebat quid esset placitum oculis tuis, et quid directum in præceptis tuis. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 10 Mitte illam de cælis sanctis tuis, et a sede magnitudinis tuæ, ut mecum sit et mecum laboret, ut sciam quid acceptum sit apud te : +Wisdom Wis 25 9 11 scit enim illa omnia, et intelligit, et deducet me in operibus meis sobrie, et custodiet me in sua potentia. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 12 Et erunt accepta opera mea, et disponam populum tuum juste, et ero dignus sedium patris mei. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 13 Quis enim hominum poterit scire consilium Dei ? aut quis poterit cogitare quid velit Deus ? +Wisdom Wis 25 9 14 Cogitationes enim mortalium timidæ, et incertæ providentiæ nostræ ; +Wisdom Wis 25 9 15 corpus enim quod corrumpitur aggravat animam, et terrena inhabitatio deprimit sensum multa cogitantem. +Wisdom Wis 25 9 16 Et difficile æstimamus quæ in terra sunt, et quæ in prospectu sunt invenimus cum labore : quæ autem in cælis sunt, quis investigabit ? +Wisdom Wis 25 9 17 Sensum autem tuum, quis sciet, nisi tu dederis sapientiam, et miseris spiritum sanctum tuum de altissimis, +Wisdom Wis 25 9 18 et sic correctæ sint semitæ eorum qui sunt in terris, et quæ tibi placent didicerint homines ? +Wisdom Wis 25 9 19 Nam per sapientiam sanati sunt quicumque placuerunt tibi, Domine, a principio. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 1 Hæc illum qui primus formatus est a Deo patre orbis terrarum, cum solus esset creatus, custodivit, +Wisdom Wis 25 10 2 et eduxit illum a delicto suo, et dedit illi virtutem continendi omnia. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 3 Ab hac ut recessit injustus in ira sua, per iram homicidii fraterni deperiit. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 4 Propter quem cum aqua deleret terram, sanavit iterum sapientia, per contemptibile lignum justum gubernans. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 5 Hæc et in consensu nequitiæ, cum se nationes contulissent, scivit justum, et conservavit sine querela Deo, et in filii misericordia fortem custodivit. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 6 Hæc justum a pereuntibus impiis liberavit fugientem, descendente igne in Pentapolim : +Wisdom Wis 25 10 7 quibus in testimonium nequitiæ fumigabunda constat deserta terra, et incerto tempore fructus habentes arbores : et incredibilis animæ memoria stans figmentum salis. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 8 Sapientiam enim prætereuntes, non tantum in hoc lapsi sunt ut ignorarent bona, sed et insipientiæ suæ reliquerunt hominibus memoriam, ut in his quæ peccaverunt nec latere potuissent. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 9 Sapientia autem hos qui se observant a doloribus liberavit. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 10 Hæc profugum iræ fratris justum deduxit per vias rectas, et ostendit illi regnum Dei, et dedit illi scientiam sanctorum ; honestavit illum in laboribus, et complevit labores illius. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 11 In fraude circumvenientium illum affuit illi, et honestum fecit illum. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 12 Custodivit illum ab inimicis, et a seductoribus tutavit illum : et certamen forte dedit illi ut vinceret, et sciret quoniam omnium potentior est sapientia. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 13 Hæc venditum justum non dereliquit, sed a peccatoribus liberavit eum ; descenditque cum illo in foveam, +Wisdom Wis 25 10 14 et in vinculis non dereliquit illum, donec afferret illi sceptrum regni, et potentiam adversus eos qui eum deprimebant : et mendaces ostendit qui maculaverunt illum, et dedit illi claritatem æternam. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 15 Hæc populum justum et semen sine querela liberavit a nationibus quæ illum deprimebant. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 16 Intravit in animam servi Dei, et stetit contra reges horrendos in portentis et signis. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 17 Et reddidit justis mercedem laborum suorum, et deduxit illos in via mirabili : et fuit illis in velamento diei, et in luce stellarum per noctem ; +Wisdom Wis 25 10 18 transtulit illos per mare Rubrum, et transvexit illos per aquam nimiam. +Wisdom Wis 25 10 19 Inimicos autem illorum demersit in mare, et ab altitudine inferorum eduxit illos. Ideo justi tulerunt spolia impiorum, +Wisdom Wis 25 10 20 et decantaverunt, Domine, nomen sanctum tuum, et victricem manum tuam laudaverunt pariter : +Wisdom Wis 25 10 21 quoniam sapientia aperuit os mutorum, et linguas infantium fecit disertas. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 1 Direxit opera eorum in manibus prophetæ sancti. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 2 Iter fecerunt per deserta quæ non habitabantur, et in locis desertis fixerunt casas. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 3 Steterunt contra hostes, et de inimicis se vindicaverunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 4 Sitierunt, et invocaverunt te, et data est illis aqua de petra altissima, et requies sitis de lapide duro. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 5 Per quæ enim pœnas passi sunt inimici illorum a defectione potus sui, et in eis cum abundarent filii Israël lætati sunt : +Wisdom Wis 25 11 6 per hæc, cum illis deessent, bene cum illis actum est. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 7 Nam pro fonte quidem sempiterni fluminis, humanum sanguinem dedisti injustis. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 8 Qui cum minuerentur in traductione infantium occisorum, dedisti illis abundantem aquam insperate, +Wisdom Wis 25 11 9 ostendens per sitim quæ tunc fuit, quemadmodum tuos exaltares, et adversarios illorum necares. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 10 Cum enim tentati sunt, et quidem cum misericordia disciplinam accipientes, scierunt quemadmodum cum ira judicati impii tormenta paterentur. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 11 Hos quidem tamquam pater monens probasti ; illos autem tamquam durus rex interrogans condemnasti. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 12 Absentes enim, et præsentes, similiter torquebantur. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 13 Duplex enim illos acceperat tædium et gemitus, cum memoria præteritorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 14 Cum enim audirent per sua tormenta bene secum agi, commemorati sunt Dominum, admirantes in finem exitus. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 15 Quem enim in expositione prava projectum deriserunt, in finem eventus mirati sunt, non similiter justis sitientes. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 16 Pro cogitationibus autem insensatis iniquitatis illorum, quod quidam errantes colebant mutos serpentes et bestias supervacuas, immisisti illis multitudinem mutorum animalium in vindictam ; +Wisdom Wis 25 11 17 ut scirent quia per quæ peccat quis, per hæc et torquetur. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 18 Non enim impossibilis erat omnipotens manus tua, quæ creavit orbem terrarum ex materia invisa, immittere illis multitudinem ursorum, aut audaces leones, +Wisdom Wis 25 11 19 aut novi generis ira plenas ignotas bestias, aut vaporem ignium spirantes, aut fumi odorem proferentes, aut horrendas ab oculis scintillas emittentes ; +Wisdom Wis 25 11 20 quarum non solum læsura poterat illos exterminare, sed et aspectus per timorem occidere. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 21 Sed et sine his uno spiritu poterant occidi, persecutionem passi ab ipsis factis suis, et dispersi per spiritum virtutis tuæ : sed omnia in mensura, et numero et pondere disposuisti. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 22 Multum enim valere, tibi soli supererat semper : et virtuti brachii tui quis resistet ? +Wisdom Wis 25 11 23 Quoniam tamquam momentum stateræ, sic est ante te orbis terrarum, et tamquam gutta roris antelucani quæ descendit in terram. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 24 Sed misereris omnium, quia omnia potes ; et dissimulas peccata hominum, propter pœnitentiam. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 25 Diligis enim omnia quæ sunt, et nihil odisti eorum quæ fecisti ; nec enim odiens aliquid constituisti aut fecisti. +Wisdom Wis 25 11 26 Quomodo autem posset aliquid permanere, nisi tu voluisses ? aut quod a te vocatum non esset conservaretur ? +Wisdom Wis 25 11 27 Parcis autem omnibus, quoniam tua sunt, Domine, qui amas animas. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 1 O quam bonus et suavis est, Domine, spiritus tuus in omnibus ! +Wisdom Wis 25 12 2 Ideoque eos qui exerrant partibus corripis, et de quibus peccant admones et alloqueris, ut relicta malitia credant in te, Domine. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 3 Illos enim antiquos inhabitatores terræ sanctæ tuæ, quos exhorruisti, +Wisdom Wis 25 12 4 quoniam odibilia opera tibi faciebant per medicamina et sacrificia injusta, +Wisdom Wis 25 12 5 et filiorum suorum necatores sine misericordia, et comestores viscerum hominum, et devoratores sanguinis a medio sacramento tuo, +Wisdom Wis 25 12 6 et auctores parentes animarum inauxiliatarum, perdere voluisti per manus parentum nostrorum : +Wisdom Wis 25 12 7 ut dignam perciperent peregrinationem puerorum Dei, quæ tibi omnium carior est terra. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 8 Sed et his tamquam hominibus pepercisti, et misisti antecessores exercitus tui vespas, ut illos paulatim exterminarent. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 9 Non quia impotens eras in bello subjicere impios justis, aut bestiis sævis, aut verbo duro simul exterminare : +Wisdom Wis 25 12 10 sed partibus judicans, dabas locum pœnitentiæ, non ignorans quoniam nequam est natio eorum, et naturalis malitia ipsorum, et quoniam non poterat mutari cogitatio illorum in perpetuum. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 11 Semen enim erat maledictum ab initio ; nec timens aliquem, veniam dabas peccatis illorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 12 Quis enim dicet tibi : Quid fecisti ? aut quis stabit contra judicium tuum ? aut quis in conspectu tuo veniet vindex iniquorum hominum ? aut quis tibi imputabit, si perierint nationes quas tu fecisti ? +Wisdom Wis 25 12 13 Non enim est alius deus quam tu, cui cura est de omnibus, ut ostendas quoniam non injuste judicas judicium. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 14 Neque rex, neque tyrannus in conspectu tuo inquirent de his quos perdidisti. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 15 Cum ergo sis justus, juste omnia disponis ; ipsum quoque qui non debet puniri, condemnare, exterum æstimas a tua virtute. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 16 Virtus enim tua justitiæ initium est, et ob hoc quod Dominus es, omnibus te parcere facis. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 17 Virtutem enim ostendis tu, qui non crederis esse in virtute consummatus, et horum qui te nesciunt audaciam traducis. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 18 Tu autem dominator virtutis, cum tranquillitate judicas, et cum magna reverentia disponis nos : subest enim tibi, cum volueris posse. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 19 Docuisti autem populum tuum per talia opera, quoniam oportet justum esse et humanum ; et bonæ spei fecisti filios tuos, quoniam judicans das locum in peccatis pœnitentiæ. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 20 Si enim inimicos servorum tuorum, et debitos morti, cum tanta cruciasti attentione, dans tempus et locum per quæ possent mutari a malitia : +Wisdom Wis 25 12 21 cum quanta diligentia judicasti filios tuos, quorum parentibus juramenta et conventiones dedisti bonarum promissionum ! +Wisdom Wis 25 12 22 Cum ergo das nobis disciplinam, inimicos nostros multipliciter flagellas, ut bonitatem tuam cogitemus judicantes, et cum de nobis judicatur, speremus misericordiam tuam. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 23 Unde et illis qui in vita sua insensate et injuste vixerunt, per hæc quæ coluerunt dedisti summa tormenta. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 24 Etenim in erroris via diutius erraverunt, deos æstimantes hæc quæ in animalibus sunt supervacua, infantium insensatorum more viventes. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 25 Propter hoc tamquam pueris insensatis judicium in derisum dedisti. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 26 Qui autem ludibriis et increpationibus non sunt correcti, dignum Dei judicium experti sunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 12 27 In quibus enim patientes indignabantur per hæc quos putabant deos, in ipsis cum exterminarentur videntes, illum quem olim negabant se nosse, verum Deum agnoverunt ; propter quod et finis condemnationis eorum venit super illos. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 1 Vani autem sunt omnes homines in quibus non subest scientia Dei ; et de his quæ videntur bona, non potuerunt intelligere eum qui est, neque operibus attendentes agnoverunt quis esset artifex : +Wisdom Wis 25 13 2 sed aut ignem, aut spiritum, aut citatum aërem, aut gyrum stellarum, aut nimiam aquam, aut solem et lunam, rectores orbis terrarum deos putaverunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 3 Quorum si specie delectati, deos putaverunt, sciant quanto his dominator eorum speciosior est : speciei enim generator hæc omnia constituit. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 4 Aut si virtutem et opera eorum mirati sunt, intelligant ab illis quoniam qui hæc fecit fortior est illis : +Wisdom Wis 25 13 5 a magnitudine enim speciei et creaturæ cognoscibiliter poterit creator horum videri. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 6 Sed tamen adhuc in his minor est querela ; et hi enim fortasse errant, Deum quærentes, et volentes invenire. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 7 Etenim cum in operibus illius conversentur inquirunt, et persuasum habent quoniam bona sunt quæ videntur. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 8 Iterum autem nec his debet ignosci. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 9 Si enim tantum potuerunt scire ut possent æstimare sæculum, quomodo hujus Dominum non facilius invenerunt ? +Wisdom Wis 25 13 10 Infelices autem sunt, et inter mortuos spes illorum est, qui appellaverunt deos opera manuum hominum : aurum et argentum, artis inventionem, et similitudines animalium, aut lapidem inutilem, opus manus antiquæ. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 11 Aut si quis artifex faber de silva lignum rectum secuerit, et hujus docte eradat omnem corticem, et arte sua usus diligenter fabricet vas utile in conversationem vitæ ; +Wisdom Wis 25 13 12 reliquiis autem ejus operis ad præparationem escæ abutatur, +Wisdom Wis 25 13 13 et reliquum horum quod ad nullos usus facit, lignum curvum et vorticibus plenum sculpat diligenter per vacuitatem suam, et per scientiam suæ artis figuret illud, et assimilet illud imagini hominis, +Wisdom Wis 25 13 14 aut alicui ex animalibus illud comparet : perliniens rubrica, et rubicundum faciens fuco colorem illius, et omnem maculam quæ in illo est perliniens ; +Wisdom Wis 25 13 15 et faciat ei dignam habitationem, et in pariete ponens illud, et confirmans ferro +Wisdom Wis 25 13 16 ne forte cadat, prospiciens illi : sciens quoniam non potest adjuvare se : imago enim est, et opus est illi adjutorium. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 17 Et de substantia sua, et de filiis suis, et de nuptiis votum faciens inquirit : non erubescit loqui cum illo qui sine anima est. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 18 Et pro sanitate quidem infirmum deprecatur, et pro vita rogat mortuum, et in adjutorium inutilem invocat. +Wisdom Wis 25 13 19 Et pro itinere petit ab eo qui ambulare non potest ; et de acquirendo, et de operando, et de omnium rerum eventu, petit ab eo qui in omnibus est inutilis. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 1 Iterum alius navigare cogitans, et per feros fluctus iter facere incipiens, ligno portante se, fragilius lignum invocat. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 2 Illud enim cupiditas acquirendi excogitavit, et artifex sapientia fabricavit sua. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 3 Tua autem, Pater, providentia gubernat : quoniam dedisti et in mari viam, et inter fluctus semitam firmissimam, +Wisdom Wis 25 14 4 ostendens quoniam potens es ex omnibus salvare, etiam si sine arte aliquis adeat mare. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 5 Sed ut non essent vacua sapientiæ tuæ opera, propter hoc etiam et exiguo ligno credunt homines animas suas, et transeuntes mare per ratem liberati sunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 6 Sed et ab initio cum perirent superbi gigantes, spes orbis terrarum ad ratem confugiens, remisit sæculo semen nativitatis quæ manu tua erat gubernata. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 7 Benedictum est enim lignum per quod fit justitia ; +Wisdom Wis 25 14 8 per manus autem quod fit idolum, maledictum est et ipsum, et qui fecit illud : quia ille quidem operatus est, illud autem cum esset fragile, deus cognominatus est. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 9 Similiter autem odio sunt Deo impius et impietas ejus ; +Wisdom Wis 25 14 10 etenim quod factum est, cum illo qui fecit tormenta patietur. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 11 Propter hoc et in idolis nationum non erit respectus, quoniam creaturæ Dei in odium factæ sunt, et in tentationem animabus hominum, et in muscipulam pedibus insipientium. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 12 Initium enim fornicationis est exquisitio idolorum, et adinventio illorum corruptio vitæ est : +Wisdom Wis 25 14 13 neque enim erant ab initio, neque erunt in perpetuum. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 14 Supervacuitas enim hominum hæc advenit in orbem terrarum, et ideo brevis illorum finis est inventus. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 15 Acerbo enim luctu dolens pater, cito sibi rapti filii fecit imaginem ; et illum qui tunc quasi homo mortuus fuerat, nunc tamquam deum colere cœpit, et constituit inter servos suos sacra et sacrificia. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 16 Deinde interveniente tempore, convalescente iniqua consuetudine, hic error tamquam lex custoditus est, et tyrannorum imperio colebantur figmenta. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 17 Et hos quos in palam homines honorare non poterant propter hoc quod longe essent, e longinquo figura eorum allata, evidentem imaginem regis quem honorare volebant fecerunt, ut illum qui aberat, tamquam præsentem colerent sua sollicitudine. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 18 Provexit autem ad horum culturam et hos qui ignorabant artificis eximia diligentia. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 19 Ille enim, volens placere illi qui se assumpsit, elaboravit arte sua ut similitudinem in melius figuraret. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 20 Multitudo autem hominum, abducta per speciem operis, eum qui ante tempus tamquam homo honoratus fuerat, nunc deum æstimaverunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 21 Et hæc fuit vitæ humanæ deceptio, quoniam aut affectui aut regibus deservientes homines, incommunicabile nomen lapidibus et lignis imposuerunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 22 Et non suffecerat errasse eos circa Dei scientiam, sed et in magno viventes inscientiæ bello, tot et tam magna mala pacem appellant. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 23 Aut enim filios suos sacrificantes, aut obscura sacrificia facientes, aut insaniæ plenas vigilias habentes, +Wisdom Wis 25 14 24 neque vitam, neque nuptias mundas jam custodiunt : sed alius alium per invidiam occidit, aut adulterans contristat, +Wisdom Wis 25 14 25 et omnia commista sunt : sanguis, homicidium, furtum et fictio, corruptio et infidelitas, turbatio et perjurium, tumultus bonorum, +Wisdom Wis 25 14 26 Dei immemoratio, animarum inquinatio, nativitatis immutatio, nuptiarum inconstantia, inordinatio mœchiæ et impudicitiæ. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 27 Infandorum enim idolorum cultura omnis mali causa est, et initium et finis. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 28 Aut enim dum lætantur insaniunt, aut certe vaticinantur falsa, aut vivunt injuste, aut pejerant cito. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 29 Dum enim confidunt in idolis quæ sine anima sunt, male jurantes noceri se non sperant. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 30 Utraque ergo illis evenient digne, quoniam male senserunt de Deo, attendentes idolis, et juraverunt injuste, in dolo contemnentes justitiam. +Wisdom Wis 25 14 31 Non enim juratorum virtus, sed peccantium pœna, perambulat semper injustorum prævaricationem. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 1 Tu autem, Deus noster, suavis et verus es, patiens, et in misericordia disponens omnia. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 2 Etenim si peccaverimus, tui sumus, scientes magnitudinem tuam ; et si non peccaverimus, scimus quoniam apud te sumus computati. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 3 Nosse enim te, consummata justitia est ; et scire justitiam et virtutem tuam, radix est immortalitatis. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 4 Non enim in errorem induxit nos hominum malæ artis excogitatio, nec umbra picturæ labor sine fructu, effigies sculpta per varios colores : +Wisdom Wis 25 15 5 cujus aspectus insensato dat concupiscentiam, et diligit mortuæ imaginis effigiem sine anima. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 6 Malorum amatores digni sunt qui spem habeant in talibus, et qui faciunt illos, et qui diligunt, et qui colunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 7 Sed et figulus mollem terram premens, laboriose fingit ad usus nostros unumquodque vas ; et de eodem luto fingit quæ munda sunt in usum vasa, et similiter quæ his sunt contraria : horum autem vasorum quis sit usus, judex est figulus. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 8 Et cum labore vano deum fingit de eodem luto ille qui paulo ante de terra factus fuerat, et post pusillum reducit se unde acceptus est, repetitus animæ debitum quam habebat. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 9 Sed cura est illi non quia laboraturus est, nec quoniam brevis illi vita est : sed concertatur aurificibus et argentariis ; sed et ærarios imitatur, et gloriam præfert, quoniam res supervacuas fingit. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 10 Cinis est enim cor ejus, et terra supervacua spes illius, et luto vilior vita ejus : +Wisdom Wis 25 15 11 quoniam ignoravit qui se finxit, et qui inspiravit illi animam quæ operatur, et qui insufflavit ei spiritum vitalem. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 12 Sed et æstimaverunt ludum esse vitam nostram, et conversationem vitæ compositam ad lucrum, et oportere undecumque etiam ex malo acquirere. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 13 Hic enim scit se super omnes delinquere, qui ex terræ materia fragilia vasa et sculptilia fingit. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 14 Omnes enim insipientes, et infelices supra modum animæ superbi, sunt inimici populi tui, et imperantes illi : +Wisdom Wis 25 15 15 quoniam omnia idola nationum deos æstimaverunt, quibus neque oculorum usus est ad videndum, neque nares ad percipiendum spiritum, neque aures ad audiendum, neque digiti manuum ad tractandum, sed et pedes eorum pigri ad ambulandum. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 16 Homo enim fecit illos ; et qui spiritum mutuatus est, is finxit illos. Nemo enim sibi similem homo poterit deum fingere. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 17 Cum enim sit mortalis, mortuum fingit manibus iniquis. Melior enim est ipse his quos colit, quia ipse quidem vixit, cum esset mortalis, illi autem numquam. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 18 Sed et animalia miserrima colunt ; insensata enim comparata his, illis sunt deteriora. +Wisdom Wis 25 15 19 Sed nec aspectu aliquis ex his animalibus bona potest conspicere : effugerunt autem Dei laudem et benedictionem ejus. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 1 Propter hæc et per his similia passi sunt digne tormenta, et per multitudinem bestiarum exterminati sunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 2 Pro quibus tormentis bene disposuisti populum tuum, quibus dedisti concupiscentiam delectamenti sui novum saporem, escam parans eis ortygometram : +Wisdom Wis 25 16 3 ut illi quidem, concupiscentes escam propter ea quæ illis ostensa et missa sunt, etiam a necessaria concupiscentia averterentur. Hi autem in brevi inopes facti, novam gustaverunt escam. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 4 Oportebat enim illis sine excusatione quidem supervenire interitum exercentibus tyrannidem ; his autem tantum ostendere quemadmodum inimici eorum exterminabantur. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 5 Etenim cum illis supervenit sæva bestiarum ira, morsibus perversorum colubrorum exterminabantur. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 6 Sed non in perpetuum ira tua permansit, sed ad correptionem in brevi turbati sunt, signum habentes salutis ad commemorationem mandati legis tuæ. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 7 Qui enim conversus est, non per hoc quod videbat sanabatur, sed per te, omnium salvatorem. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 8 In hoc autem ostendisti inimicis nostris quia tu es qui liberas ab omni malo. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 9 Illos enim locustarum et muscarum occiderunt morsus, et non est inventa sanitas animæ illorum, quia digni erant ab hujuscemodi exterminari. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 10 Filios autem tuos nec draconum venenatorum vicerunt dentes : misericordia enim tua adveniens sanabat illos. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 11 In memoria enim sermonum tuorum examinabantur, et velociter salvabantur : ne in altam incidentes oblivionem non possent tuo uti adjutorio. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 12 Etenim neque herba, neque malagma sanavit eos : sed tuus, Domine, sermo, qui sanat omnia. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 13 Tu es enim, Domine, qui vitæ et mortis habes potestatem, et deducis ad portas mortis, et reducis. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 14 Homo autem occidit quidem per malitiam ; et cum exierit spiritus, non revertetur, nec revocabit animam quæ recepta est. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 15 Sed tuam manum effugere impossibile est. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 16 Negantes enim te nosse impii, per fortitudinem brachii tui flagellati sunt : novis aquis, et grandinibus, et pluviis persecutionem passi, et per ignem consumpti. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 17 Quod enim mirabile erat, in aqua, quæ omnia extinguit, plus ignis valebat : vindex est enim orbis justorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 18 Quodam enim tempore mansuetabatur ignis, ne comburerentur quæ ad impios missa erant animalia, sed ut ipsi videntes scirent quoniam Dei judicio patiuntur persecutionem. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 19 Et quodam tempore in aqua supra virtutem ignis exardescebat undique, ut iniquæ terræ nationem exterminaret. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 20 Pro quibus angelorum esca nutrivisti populum tuum, et paratum panem de cælo præstitisti illis sine labore, omne delectamentum in se habentem, et omnis saporis suavitatem. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 21 Substantia enim tua dulcedinem tuam, quam in filios habes, ostendebat ; et deserviens uniuscujusque voluntati, ad quod quisque volebat convertebatur. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 22 Nix autem et glacies sustinebant vim ignis, et non tabescebant : ut scirent quoniam fructus inimicorum exterminabat ignis ardens in grandine et pluvia coruscans ; +Wisdom Wis 25 16 23 hic autem iterum ut nutrirentur justi, etiam suæ virtutis oblitus est. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 24 Creatura enim tibi factori deserviens, exardescit in tormentum adversus injustos, et lenior fit ad benefaciendum pro his qui in te confidunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 25 Propter hoc et tunc in omnia transfigurata, omnium nutrici gratiæ tuæ deserviebat, ad voluntatem eorum qui a te desiderabant : +Wisdom Wis 25 16 26 ut scirent filii tui quos dilexisti, Domine, quoniam non nativitatis fructus pascunt homines, sed sermo tuus hos qui in te crediderint conservat. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 27 Quod enim ab igne non poterat exterminari, statim ab exiguo radio solis calefactum tabescebat : +Wisdom Wis 25 16 28 ut notum omnibus esset quoniam oportet prævenire solem ad benedictionem tuam, et ad ortum lucis te adorare. +Wisdom Wis 25 16 29 Ingrati enim spes tamquam hibernalis glacies tabescet, et disperiet tamquam aqua supervacua. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 1 Magna sunt enim judicia tua, Domine, et inenarrabilia verba tua : propter hoc indisciplinatæ animæ erraverunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 2 Dum enim persuasum habent iniqui posse dominari nationi sanctæ, vinculis tenebrarum et longæ noctis compediti, inclusi sub tectis, fugitivi perpetuæ providentiæ jacuerunt. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 3 Et dum putant se latere in obscuris peccatis, tenebroso oblivionis velamento dispersi sunt, paventes horrende, et cum admiratione nimia perturbati. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 4 Neque enim quæ continebat illos spelunca sine timore custodiebat, quoniam sonitus descendens perturbabat illos, et personæ tristes illis apparentes pavorem illis præstabant. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 5 Et ignis quidem nulla vis poterat illis lumen præbere, nec siderum limpidæ flammæ illuminare poterant illam noctem horrendam. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 6 Apparebat autem illis subitaneus ignis, timore plenus ; et timore perculsi illius quæ non videbatur faciei, æstimabant deteriora esse quæ videbantur. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 7 Et magicæ artis appositi erant derisus, et sapientiæ gloriæ correptio cum contumelia. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 8 Illi enim qui promittebant timores et perturbationes expellere se ab anima languente, hi cum derisu pleni timore languebant. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 9 Nam etsi nihil illos ex monstris perturbabat, transitu animalium et serpentium sibilatione commoti, tremebundi peribant, et aërem quem nulla ratione quis effugere posset, negantes se videre. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 10 Cum sit enim timida nequitia, dat testimonium condemnationis : semper enim præsumit sæva, perturbata conscientia : +Wisdom Wis 25 17 11 nihil enim est timor nisi proditio cogitationis auxiliorum. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 12 Et dum ab intus minor est exspectatio, majorem computat inscientiam ejus causæ, de qua tormentum præstat. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 13 Illi autem qui impotentem vere noctem, et ab infimis et ab altissimis inferis supervenientem, eumdem somnum dormientes, +Wisdom Wis 25 17 14 aliquando monstrorum exagitabantur timore, aliquando animæ deficiebant traductione : subitaneus enim illis et insperatus timor supervenerat. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 15 Deinde si quisquam ex illis decidisset, custodiebatur in carcere sine ferro reclusus. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 16 Si enim rusticus quis erat, aut pastor, aut agri laborum operarius præoccupatus esset, ineffugibilem sustinebat necessitatem ; +Wisdom Wis 25 17 17 una enim catena tenebrarum omnes erant colligati. Sive spiritus sibilans, aut inter spissos arborum ramos avium sonus suavis, aut vis aquæ decurrentis nimium, +Wisdom Wis 25 17 18 aut sonus validus præcipitatarum petrarum, aut ludentium animalium cursus invisus, aut mugientium valida bestiarum vox, aut resonans de altissimis montibus echo : deficientes faciebant illos præ timore. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 19 Omnis enim orbis terrarum limpido illuminabatur lumine, et non impeditis operibus continebatur. +Wisdom Wis 25 17 20 Solis autem illis superposita erat gravis nox, imago tenebrarum quæ superventura illis erat : ipsi ergo sibi erant graviores tenebris. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 1 Sanctis autem tuis maxima erat lux, et horum quidem vocem audiebant, sed figuram non videbant. Et quia non et ipsi eadem passi erant, magnificabant te ; +Wisdom Wis 25 18 2 et qui ante læsi erant, quia non lædebantur, gratias agebant, et ut esset differentia, donum petebant. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 3 Propter quod ignis ardentem columnam ducem habuerunt ignotæ viæ, et solem sine læsura boni hospitii præstitisti. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 4 Digni quidem illi carere luce, et pati carcerem tenebrarum, qui inclusos custodiebant filios tuos, per quos incipiebat incorruptum legis lumen sæculo dari. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 5 Cum cogitarent justorum occidere infantes, et uno exposito filio et liberato, in traductionem illorum, multitudinem filiorum abstulisti, et pariter illos perdidisti in aqua valida. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 6 Illa enim nox ante cognita est a patribus nostris, ut vere scientes quibus juramentis crediderunt, animæquiores essent. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 7 Suscepta est autem a populo tuo sanitas quidem justorum, injustorum autem exterminatio. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 8 Sicut enim læsisti adversarios, sic et nos provocans magnificasti. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 9 Absconse enim sacrificabant justi pueri bonorum, et justitiæ legem in concordia disposuerunt ; similiter et bona et mala recepturos justos, patrum jam decantantes laudes. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 10 Resonabat autem inconveniens inimicorum vox, et flebilis audiebatur planctus ploratorum infantium. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 11 Simili autem pœna servus cum domino afflictus est, et popularis homo regi similia passus. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 12 Similiter ergo omnes, uno nomine mortis, mortuos habebant innumerabiles : nec enim ad sepeliendum vivi sufficiebant, quoniam uno momento quæ erat præclarior natio illorum exterminata est. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 13 De omnibus enim non credentes, propter veneficia ; tunc vero primum cum fuit exterminium primogenitorum, spoponderunt populum Dei esse. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 14 Cum enim quietum silentium contineret omnia, et nox in suo cursu medium iter haberet, +Wisdom Wis 25 18 15 omnipotens sermo tuus de cælo, a regalibus sedibus, durus debellator in mediam exterminii terram prosilivit, +Wisdom Wis 25 18 16 gladius acutus insimulatum imperium tuum portans : et stans, replevit omnia morte, et usque ad cælum attingebat stans in terra. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 17 Tunc continuo visus somniorum malorum turbaverunt illos, et timores supervenerunt insperati. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 18 Et alius alibi projectus semivivus, propter quam moriebatur causam demonstrabat mortis. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 19 Visiones enim quæ illos turbaverunt hæc præmonebant, ne inscii quare mala patiebantur perirent. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 20 Tetigit autem tunc et justos tentatio mortis, et commotio in eremo facta est multitudinis : sed non diu permansit ira tua. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 21 Prosperans enim homo sine querela deprecari pro populis, proferens servitutis suæ scutum, orationem et per incensum deprecationem allegans, restitit iræ, et finem imposuit necessitati, ostendens quoniam tuus est famulus. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 22 Vicit autem turbas non in virtute corporis, nec armaturæ potentia : sed verbo illum qui se vexabat subjecit, juramenta parentum et testamentum commemorans. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 23 Cum enim jam acervatim cecidissent super alterutrum mortui, interstitit, et amputavit impetum, et divisit illam quæ ad vivos ducebat viam. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 24 In veste enim poderis quam habebat, totus erat orbis terrarum ; et parentum magnalia in quatuor ordinibus lapidum erant sculpta, et magnificentia tua in diademate capitis illius sculpta erat. +Wisdom Wis 25 18 25 His autem cessit qui exterminabat, et hæc extimuit : erat enim sola tentatio iræ sufficiens. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 1 Impiis autem usque in novissimum sine misericordia ira supervenit. Præsciebat enim et futura illorum : +Wisdom Wis 25 19 2 quoniam cum ipsi permisissent ut se educerent, et cum magna sollicitudine præmisissent illos, consequebantur illos, pœnitentia acti. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 3 Adhuc enim inter manus habentes luctum, et deplorantes ad monumenta mortuorum, aliam sibi assumpserunt cogitationem inscientiæ, et quos rogantes projecerant, hos tamquam fugitivos persequebantur. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 4 Ducebat enim illos ad hunc finem digna necessitas ; et horum quæ acciderant commemorationem amittebant, ut quæ deerant tormentis repleret punitio : +Wisdom Wis 25 19 5 et populus quidem tuus mirabiliter transiret, illi autem novam mortem invenirent. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 6 Omnis enim creatura ad suum genus ab initio refigurabatur, deserviens tuis præceptis, ut pueri tui custodirentur illæsi. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 7 Nam nubes castra eorum obumbrabat, et ex aqua quæ ante erat, terra arida apparuit, et in mari Rubro via sine impedimento, et campus germinans de profundo nimio : +Wisdom Wis 25 19 8 per quem omnis natio transivit quæ tegebatur tua manu, videntes tua mirabilia et monstra. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 9 Tamquam enim equi depaverunt escam, et tamquam agni exsultaverunt, magnificantes te, Domine, qui liberasti illos. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 10 Memores enim erant adhuc eorum quæ in incolatu illorum facta fuerant : quemadmodum pro natione animalium eduxit terra muscas, et pro piscibus eructavit fluvius multitudinem ranarum. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 11 Novissime autem viderunt novam creaturam avium, cum, adducti concupiscentia, postulaverunt escas epulationis. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 12 In allocutione enim desiderii ascendit illis de mari ortygometra : et vexationes peccatoribus supervenerunt, non sine illis quæ ante facta erant argumentis per vim fulminum : juste enim patiebantur secundum suas nequitias. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 13 Etenim detestabiliorem inhospitalitatem instituerunt : alii quidem ignotos non recipiebant advenas ; alii autem bonos hospites in servitutem redigebant. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 14 Et non solum hæc, sed et alius quidam respectus illorum erat, quoniam inviti recipiebant extraneos. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 15 Qui autem cum lætitia receperunt hos qui eisdem usi erant justitiis, sævissimis afflixerunt doloribus. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 16 Percussi sunt autem cæcitate : sicut illi in foribus justi, cum subitaneis cooperti essent tenebris, unusquisque transitum ostii sui quærebat. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 17 In se enim elementa dum convertuntur, sicut in organo qualitatis sonus immutatur, et omnia suum sonum custodiunt : unde æstimari ex ipso visu certo potest. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 18 Agrestia enim in aquatica convertebantur, et quæcumque erant natantia, in terram transibant. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 19 Ignis in aqua valebat supra suam virtutem, et aqua extinguentis naturæ obliviscebatur. +Wisdom Wis 25 19 20 Flammæ e contrario corruptibilium animalium non vexaverunt carnes coambulantium, nec dissolvebant illam, quæ facile dissolvebatur sicut glacies, bonam escam. In omnibus enim magnificasti populum tuum, Domine, et honorasti, et non despexisti, in omni tempore et in omni loco assistens eis. +Sirach Sir 26 1 1 Omnis sapientia a Domino Deo est : et cum illo fuit semper, et est ante ævum. +Sirach Sir 26 1 2 Arenam maris, et pluviæ guttas, et dies sæculi, quis dinumeravit ? altitudinem cæli, et latitudinem terræ, et profundum abyssi, quis dimensus est ? +Sirach Sir 26 1 3 sapientiam Dei præcedentem omnia, quis investigavit ? +Sirach Sir 26 1 4 Prior omnium creata est sapientia, et intellectus prudentiæ ab ævo. +Sirach Sir 26 1 5 Fons sapientiæ verbum Dei in excelsis, et ingressus illius mandata æterna. +Sirach Sir 26 1 6 Radix sapientiæ cui revelata est ? et astutias illius quis agnovit ? +Sirach Sir 26 1 7 disciplina sapientiæ cui revelata est et manifestata ? et multiplicationem ingressus illius quis intellexit ? +Sirach Sir 26 1 8 Unus est altissimus, Creator omnipotens, et rex potens et metuendus nimis, sedens super thronum illius, et dominans Deus. +Sirach Sir 26 1 9 Ipse creavit illam in Spiritu Sancto, et vidit, et dinumeravit, et mensus est : +Sirach Sir 26 1 10 et effudit illam super omnia opera sua, et super omnem carnem, secundum datum suum, et præbuit illam diligentibus se. +Sirach Sir 26 1 11 Timor Domini gloria, et gloriatio, et lætitia, et corona exsultationis. +Sirach Sir 26 1 12 Timor Domini delectabit cor, et dabit lætitiam, et gaudium, et longitudinem dierum. +Sirach Sir 26 1 13 Timenti Dominum bene erit in extremis, et in die defunctionis suæ benedicetur. +Sirach Sir 26 1 14 Dilectio Dei honorabilis sapientia : +Sirach Sir 26 1 15 quibus autem apparuerit in visu diligunt eam in visione, et in agnitione magnalium suorum. +Sirach Sir 26 1 16 Initium sapientiæ timor Domini : et cum fidelibus in vulva concreatus est : cum electis feminis graditur, et cum justis et fidelibus agnoscitur. +Sirach Sir 26 1 17 Timor Domini scientiæ religiositas : +Sirach Sir 26 1 18 religiositas custodiet et justificabit cor ; jucunditatem atque gaudium dabit. +Sirach Sir 26 1 19 Timenti Dominum bene erit, et in diebus consummationis illius benedicetur. +Sirach Sir 26 1 20 Plenitudo sapientiæ est timere Deum, et plenitudo a fructibus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 1 21 Omnem domum illius implebit a generationibus, et receptacula a thesauris illius. +Sirach Sir 26 1 22 Corona sapientiæ timor Domini, replens pacem et salutis fructum : +Sirach Sir 26 1 23 et vidit, et dinumeravit eam : utraque autem sunt dona Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 1 24 Scientiam et intellectum prudentiæ sapientia compartietur, et gloriam tenentium se exaltat. +Sirach Sir 26 1 25 Radix sapientiæ est timere Dominum, et rami illius longævi. +Sirach Sir 26 1 26 In thesauris sapientiæ intellectus et scientiæ religiositas : execratio autem peccatoribus sapientia. +Sirach Sir 26 1 27 Timor Domini expellit peccatum : +Sirach Sir 26 1 28 nam qui sine timore est non poterit justificari : iracundia enim animositatis illius subversio illius est. +Sirach Sir 26 1 29 Usque in tempus sustinebit patiens, et postea redditio jucunditatis. +Sirach Sir 26 1 30 Bonus sensus usque in tempus abscondet verba illius, et labia multorum enarrabunt sensum illius. +Sirach Sir 26 1 31 In thesauris sapientiæ significatio disciplinæ : +Sirach Sir 26 1 32 execratio autem peccatori cultura Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 1 33 Fili, concupiscens sapientiam, conserva justitiam, et Deus præbebit illam tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 1 34 Sapientia enim et disciplina timor Domini : et quod beneplacitum est illi, +Sirach Sir 26 1 35 fides et mansuetudo, et adimplebit thesauros illius. +Sirach Sir 26 1 36 Ne sis incredibilis timori Domini, et ne accesseris ad illum duplici corde. +Sirach Sir 26 1 37 Ne fueris hypocrita in conspectu hominum, et non scandalizeris in labiis tuis. +Sirach Sir 26 1 38 Attende in illis, ne forte cadas, et adducas animæ tuæ inhonorationem : +Sirach Sir 26 1 39 et revelet Deus absconsa tua, et in medio synagogæ elidat te : +Sirach Sir 26 1 40 quoniam accessisti maligne ad Dominum, et cor tuum plenum est dolo et fallacia. +Sirach Sir 26 2 1 Fili, accedens ad servitutem Dei sta in justitia et timore, et præpara animam tuam ad tentationem. +Sirach Sir 26 2 2 Deprime cor tuum, et sustine : inclina aurem tuam, et suscipe verba intellectus : et ne festines in tempore obductionis. +Sirach Sir 26 2 3 Sustine sustentationes Dei : conjungere Deo, et sustine, ut crescat in novissimo vita tua. +Sirach Sir 26 2 4 Omne quod tibi applicitum fuerit accipe : et in dolore sustine, et in humilitate tua patientiam habe : +Sirach Sir 26 2 5 quoniam in igne probatur aurum et argentum, homines vero receptibiles in camino humiliationis. +Sirach Sir 26 2 6 Crede Deo, et recuperabit te : et dirige viam tuam, et spera in illum : serva timorem illius, et in illo veterasce. +Sirach Sir 26 2 7 Metuentes Dominum, sustinete misericordiam ejus : et non deflectatis ab illo, ne cadatis. +Sirach Sir 26 2 8 Qui timetis Dominum, credite illi, et non evacuabitur merces vestra. +Sirach Sir 26 2 9 Qui timetis Dominum, sperate in illum, et in oblectationem veniet vobis misericordia. +Sirach Sir 26 2 10 Qui timetis Dominum, diligite illum, et illuminabuntur corda vestra. +Sirach Sir 26 2 11 Respicite, filii, nationes hominum : et scitote quia nullus speravit in Domino et confusus est. +Sirach Sir 26 2 12 Quis enim permansit in mandatis ejus, et derelictus est ? aut quis invocavit eum, et despexit illum ? +Sirach Sir 26 2 13 Quoniam pius et misericors est Deus, et remittet in die tribulationis peccata, et protector est omnibus exquirentibus se in veritate. +Sirach Sir 26 2 14 Væ duplici corde, et labiis scelestis, et manibus malefacientibus, et peccatori terram ingredienti duabus viis ! +Sirach Sir 26 2 15 Væ dissolutis corde, qui non credunt Deo, et ideo non protegentur ab eo ! +Sirach Sir 26 2 16 Væ his qui perdiderunt sustinentiam, et qui dereliquerunt vias rectas, et diverterunt in vias pravas ! +Sirach Sir 26 2 17 Et quid facient cum inspicere cœperit Dominus ? +Sirach Sir 26 2 18 Qui timent Dominum non erunt incredibiles verbo illius : et qui diligunt illum conservabunt viam illius. +Sirach Sir 26 2 19 Qui timent Dominum inquirent quæ beneplacita sunt ei, et qui diligunt eum replebuntur lege ipsius. +Sirach Sir 26 2 20 Qui timent Dominum præparabunt corda sua, et in conspectu illius sanctificabunt animas suas. +Sirach Sir 26 2 21 Qui timent Dominum custodiunt mandata illius, et patientiam habebunt usque ad inspectionem illius, +Sirach Sir 26 2 22 dicentes : Si pœnitentiam non egerimus, incidemus in manus Domini, et non in manus hominum. +Sirach Sir 26 2 23 Secundum enim magnitudinem ipsius, sic et misericordia illius cum ipso est. +Sirach Sir 26 3 1 Filii sapientiæ ecclesia justorum, et natio illorum obedientia et dilectio. +Sirach Sir 26 3 2 Judicium patris audite, filii, et sic facite, ut salvi sitis. +Sirach Sir 26 3 3 Deus enim honoravit patrem in filiis : et judicium matris exquirens, firmavit in filios. +Sirach Sir 26 3 4 Qui diligit Deum exorabit pro peccatis, et continebit se ab illis, et in oratione dierum exaudietur. +Sirach Sir 26 3 5 Et sicut qui thesaurizat, ita et qui honorificat matrem suam. +Sirach Sir 26 3 6 Qui honorat patrem suum jucundabitur in filiis, et in die orationis suæ exaudietur. +Sirach Sir 26 3 7 Qui honorat patrem suum vita vivet longiore, et qui obedit patri refrigerabit matrem. +Sirach Sir 26 3 8 Qui timet Dominum honorat parentes, et quasi dominis serviet his qui se genuerunt. +Sirach Sir 26 3 9 In opere, et sermone, et omni patientia, honora patrem tuum, +Sirach Sir 26 3 10 ut superveniat tibi benedictio ab eo, et benedictio illius in novissimo maneat. +Sirach Sir 26 3 11 Benedictio patris firmat domos filiorum : maledictio autem matris eradicat fundamenta. +Sirach Sir 26 3 12 Ne glorieris in contumelia patris tui : non enim est tibi gloria ejus confusio. +Sirach Sir 26 3 13 Gloria enim hominis ex honore patris sui, et dedecus filii pater sine honore. +Sirach Sir 26 3 14 Fili, suscipe senectam patris tui, et non contristes eum in vita illius : +Sirach Sir 26 3 15 et si defecerit sensu, veniam da, et ne spernas eum in virtute tua : eleemosyna enim patris non erit in oblivione. +Sirach Sir 26 3 16 Nam pro peccato matris restituetur tibi bonum : +Sirach Sir 26 3 17 et in justitia ædificabitur tibi, et in die tribulationis commemorabitur tui, et sicut in sereno glacies, solventur peccata tua. +Sirach Sir 26 3 18 Quam malæ famæ est qui derelinquit patrem, et est maledictus a Deo qui exasperat matrem ! +Sirach Sir 26 3 19 Fili, in mansuetudine opera tua perfice, et super hominum gloriam diligeris. +Sirach Sir 26 3 20 Quanto magnus es, humilia te in omnibus, et coram Deo invenies gratiam : +Sirach Sir 26 3 21 quoniam magna potentia Dei solius, et ab humilibus honoratur. +Sirach Sir 26 3 22 Altiora te ne quæsieris, et fortiora te ne scrutatus fueris : sed quæ præcepit tibi Deus, illa cogita semper, et in pluribus operibus ejus ne fueris curiosus. +Sirach Sir 26 3 23 Non est enim tibi necessarium ea, quæ abscondita sunt, videre oculis tuis. +Sirach Sir 26 3 24 In supervacuis rebus noli scrutari multipliciter, et in pluribus operibus ejus non eris curiosus. +Sirach Sir 26 3 25 Plurima enim super sensum hominum ostensa sunt tibi : +Sirach Sir 26 3 26 multos quoque supplantavit suspicio illorum, et in vanitate detinuit sensus illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 3 27 Cor durum habebit male in novissimo, et qui amat periculum in illo peribit. +Sirach Sir 26 3 28 Cor ingrediens duas vias non habebit successus, et pravus corde in illis scandalizabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 3 29 Cor nequam gravabitur in doloribus, et peccator adjiciet ad peccandum. +Sirach Sir 26 3 30 Synagogæ superborum non erit sanitas, frutex enim peccati radicabitur in illis, et non intelligetur. +Sirach Sir 26 3 31 Cor sapientis intelligitur in sapientia, et auris bona audiet cum omni concupiscentia sapientiam. +Sirach Sir 26 3 32 Sapiens cor et intelligibile abstinebit se a peccatis, et in operibus justitiæ successus habebit. +Sirach Sir 26 3 33 Ignem ardentem exstinguit aqua, et eleemosyna resistit peccatis : +Sirach Sir 26 3 34 et Deus prospector est ejus qui reddit gratiam : meminit ejus in posterum, et in tempore casus sui inveniet firmamentum. +Sirach Sir 26 4 1 Fili, eleemosynam pauperis ne defraudes, et oculos tuos ne transvertas a paupere. +Sirach Sir 26 4 2 Animam esurientem ne despexeris, et non exasperes pauperem in inopia sua. +Sirach Sir 26 4 3 Cor inopis ne afflixeris, et non protrahas datum angustianti. +Sirach Sir 26 4 4 Rogationem contribulati ne abjicias, et non avertas faciem tuam ab egeno. +Sirach Sir 26 4 5 Ab inope ne avertas oculos tuos propter iram : et non relinquas quærentibus tibi retro maledicere. +Sirach Sir 26 4 6 Maledicentis enim tibi in amaritudine animæ, exaudietur deprecatio illius : exaudiet autem eum qui fecit illum. +Sirach Sir 26 4 7 Congregationi pauperum affabilem te facito : et presbytero humilia animam tuam, et magnato humilia caput tuum. +Sirach Sir 26 4 8 Declina pauperi sine tristitia aurem tuam, et redde debitum tuum, et responde illi pacifica in mansuetudine. +Sirach Sir 26 4 9 Libera eum qui injuriam patitur de manu superbi, et non acide feras in anima tua. +Sirach Sir 26 4 10 In judicando esto pupillis misericors ut pater, et pro viro matri illorum : +Sirach Sir 26 4 11 et eris tu velut filius Altissimi obediens, et miserebitur tui magis quam mater. +Sirach Sir 26 4 12 Sapientia filiis suis vitam inspirat : et suscipit inquirentes se, et præibit in via justitiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 4 13 Et qui illam diligit, diligit vitam, et qui vigilaverint ad illam complectentur placorem ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 4 14 Qui tenuerint illam, vitam hæreditabunt : et quo introibit benedicet Deus. +Sirach Sir 26 4 15 Qui serviunt ei obsequentes erunt sancto : et eos qui diligunt illam, diligit Deus. +Sirach Sir 26 4 16 Qui audit illam judicabit gentes : et qui intuetur illam permanebit confidens. +Sirach Sir 26 4 17 Si crediderit ei, hæreditabit illam, et erunt in confirmatione creaturæ illius : +Sirach Sir 26 4 18 quoniam in tentatione ambulat cum eo, et in primis eligit eum. +Sirach Sir 26 4 19 Timorem, et metum, et probationem inducet super illum : et cruciabit illum in tribulatione doctrinæ suæ, donec tentet eum in cogitationibus suis, et credat animæ illius. +Sirach Sir 26 4 20 Et firmabit illum, et iter adducet directum ad illum, et lætificabit illum : +Sirach Sir 26 4 21 et denudabit absconsa sua illi, et thesaurizabit super illum scientiam et intellectum justitiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 4 22 Si autem oberraverit, derelinquet eum, et tradet eum in manus inimici sui. +Sirach Sir 26 4 23 Fili, conserva tempus, et devita a malo. +Sirach Sir 26 4 24 Pro anima tua ne confundaris dicere verum : +Sirach Sir 26 4 25 est enim confusio adducens peccatum, et est confusio adducens gloriam et gratiam. +Sirach Sir 26 4 26 Ne accipias faciem adversus faciem tuam, nec adversus animam tuam mendacium. +Sirach Sir 26 4 27 Ne reverearis proximum tuum in casu suo, +Sirach Sir 26 4 28 nec retineas verbum in tempore salutis. Non abscondas sapientiam tuam in decore suo : +Sirach Sir 26 4 29 in lingua enim sapientia dignoscitur : et sensus, et scientia, et doctrina in verbo sensati, et firmamentum in operibus justitiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 4 30 Non contradicas verbo veritatis ullo modo, et de mendacio ineruditionis tuæ confundere. +Sirach Sir 26 4 31 Non confundaris confiteri peccata tua, et ne subjicias te omni homini pro peccato. +Sirach Sir 26 4 32 Noli resistere contra faciem potentis, nec coneris contra ictum fluvii. +Sirach Sir 26 4 33 Pro justitia agonizare pro anima tua, et usque ad mortem certa pro justitia : et Deus expugnabit pro te inimicos tuos. +Sirach Sir 26 4 34 Noli citatus esse in lingua tua, et inutilis, et remissus in operibus tuis. +Sirach Sir 26 4 35 Noli esse sicut leo in domo tua, evertens domesticos tuos, et opprimens subjectos tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 4 36 Non sit porrecta manus tua ad accipiendum, et ad dandum collecta. +Sirach Sir 26 5 1 Noli attendere ad possessiones iniquas, et ne dixeris : Est mihi sufficiens vita : nihil enim proderit in tempore vindictæ et obductionis. +Sirach Sir 26 5 2 Ne sequaris in fortitudine tua concupiscentiam cordis tui, +Sirach Sir 26 5 3 et ne dixeris : Quomodo potui ? aut, Quis me subjiciet propter facta mea ? Deus enim vindicans vindicabit. +Sirach Sir 26 5 4 Ne dixeris : Peccavi : et quid mihi accidit triste ? Altissimus enim est patiens redditor. +Sirach Sir 26 5 5 De propitiatio peccato noli esse sine metu, neque adjicias peccatum super peccatum. +Sirach Sir 26 5 6 Et ne dicas : Miseratio Domini magna est, multitudinis peccatorum meorum miserebitur : +Sirach Sir 26 5 7 misericordia enim et ira ab illo cito proximant, et in peccatores respicit ira illius. +Sirach Sir 26 5 8 Non tardes converti ad Dominum, et ne differas de die in diem : +Sirach Sir 26 5 9 subito enim veniet ira illius, et in tempore vindictæ disperdet te. +Sirach Sir 26 5 10 Noli anxius esse in divitiis injustis : non enim proderunt tibi in die obductionis et vindictæ. +Sirach Sir 26 5 11 Non ventiles te in omnem ventum, et non eas in omnem viam : sic enim omnis peccator probatur in duplici lingua. +Sirach Sir 26 5 12 Esto firmus in via Domini, et in veritate sensus tui et scientia : et prosequatur te verbum pacis et justitiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 5 13 Esto mansuetus ad audiendum verbum, ut intelligas, et cum sapientia proferas responsum verum. +Sirach Sir 26 5 14 Si est tibi intellectus, responde proximo : sin autem, sit manus tua super os tuum, ne capiaris in verbo indisciplinato, et confundaris. +Sirach Sir 26 5 15 Honor et gloria in sermone sensati : lingua vero imprudentis subversio est ipsius. +Sirach Sir 26 5 16 Non appelleris susurro, et lingua tua ne capiaris et confundaris : +Sirach Sir 26 5 17 super furem enim est confusio et pœnitentia, et denotatio pessima super bilinguem : susurratori autem odium, et inimicitia, et contumelia. +Sirach Sir 26 5 18 Justifica pusillum et magnum similiter. +Sirach Sir 26 6 1 Noli fieri pro amico inimicus proximo : improperium enim et contumeliam malus hæreditabit : et omnis peccator invidus et bilinguis. +Sirach Sir 26 6 2 Non te extollas in cogitatione animæ tuæ velut taurus, ne forte elidatur virtus tua per stultitiam : +Sirach Sir 26 6 3 et folia tua comedat, et fructus tuos perdat, et relinquaris velut lignum aridum in eremo. +Sirach Sir 26 6 4 Anima enim nequam disperdet qui se habet, et in gaudium inimicis dat illum, et deducet in sortem impiorum. +Sirach Sir 26 6 5 Verbum dulce multiplicat amicos et mitigat inimicos, et lingua eucharis in bono homine abundat. +Sirach Sir 26 6 6 Multi pacifici sint tibi : et consiliarius sit tibi unus de mille. +Sirach Sir 26 6 7 Si possides amicum, in tentatione posside eum, et ne facile credas ei. +Sirach Sir 26 6 8 Est enim amicus secundum tempus suum, et non permanebit in die tribulationis. +Sirach Sir 26 6 9 Et est amicus qui convertitur ad inimicitiam, et est amicus qui odium et rixam et convitia denudabit. +Sirach Sir 26 6 10 Est autem amicus socius mensæ, et non permanebit in die necessitatis. +Sirach Sir 26 6 11 Amicus si permanserit fixus, erit tibi quasi coæqualis, et in domesticis tuis fiducialiter aget. +Sirach Sir 26 6 12 Si humiliaverit se contra te, et a facie tua absconderit se, unanimem habebis amicitiam bonam. +Sirach Sir 26 6 13 Ab inimicis tuis separare, et ab amicis tuis attende. +Sirach Sir 26 6 14 Amicus fidelis protectio fortis : qui autem invenit illum, invenit thesaurum. +Sirach Sir 26 6 15 Amico fideli nulla est comparatio, et non est digna ponderatio auri et argenti contra bonitatem fidei illius. +Sirach Sir 26 6 16 Amicus fidelis medicamentum vitæ et immortalitatis : et qui metuunt Dominum, invenient illum. +Sirach Sir 26 6 17 Qui timet Deum æque habebit amicitiam bonam, quoniam secundum illum erit amicus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 6 18 Fili, a juventute tua excipe doctrinam, et usque ad canos invenies sapientiam. +Sirach Sir 26 6 19 Quasi is qui arat et seminat accede ad eam, et sustine bonos fructus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 6 20 In opere enim ipsius exiguum laborabis, et cito edes de generationibus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 6 21 Quam aspera est nimium sapientia indoctis hominibus ! et non permanebit in illa excors. +Sirach Sir 26 6 22 Quasi lapidis virtus probatio erit in illis : et non demorabuntur projicere illam. +Sirach Sir 26 6 23 Sapientia enim doctrinæ secundum nomen est ejus, et non est multis manifestata : quibus autem cognita est, permanet usque ad conspectum Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 6 24 Audi, fili, et accipe consilium intellectus, et ne abjicias consilium meum. +Sirach Sir 26 6 25 Injice pedem tuum in compedes illius, et in torques illius collum tuum. +Sirach Sir 26 6 26 Subjice humerum tuum, et porta illam, et ne acedieris vinculis ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 6 27 In omni animo tuo accede ad illam, et in omni virtute tua conserva vias ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 6 28 Investiga illam, et manifestabitur tibi : et continens factus, ne derelinquas eam : +Sirach Sir 26 6 29 in novissimis enim invenies requiem in ea, et convertetur tibi in oblectationem. +Sirach Sir 26 6 30 Et erunt tibi compedes ejus in protectionem fortitudinis et bases virtutis, et torques illius in stolam gloriæ : +Sirach Sir 26 6 31 decor enim vitæ est in illa, et vincula illius alligatura salutaris. +Sirach Sir 26 6 32 Stolam gloriæ indues eam, et coronam gratulationis superpones tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 6 33 Fili, si attenderis mihi, disces : et si accommodaveris animum tuum, sapiens eris. +Sirach Sir 26 6 34 Si inclinaveris aurem tuam, excipies doctrinam : et si dilexeris audire, sapiens eris. +Sirach Sir 26 6 35 In multitudine presbyterorum prudentium sta, et sapientiæ illorum ex corde conjungere, ut omnem narrationem Dei possis audire, et proverbia laudis non effugiant a te. +Sirach Sir 26 6 36 Et si videris sensatum, evigila ad eum, et gradus ostiorum illius exterat pes tuus. +Sirach Sir 26 6 37 Cogitatum tuum habe in præceptis Dei, et in mandatis illius maxime assiduus esto : et ipse dabit tibi cor, et concupiscentia sapientiæ dabitur tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 7 1 Noli facere mala, et non te apprehendent : +Sirach Sir 26 7 2 discede ab iniquo, et deficient mala abs te. +Sirach Sir 26 7 3 Fili, non semines mala in sulcis injustitiæ, et non metes ea in septuplum. +Sirach Sir 26 7 4 Noli quærere a Domino ducatum, neque a rege cathedram honoris. +Sirach Sir 26 7 5 Non te justifices ante Deum, quoniam agnitor cordis ipse est : et penes regem noli velle videri sapiens. +Sirach Sir 26 7 6 Noli quærere fieri judex, nisi valeas virtute irrumpere iniquitates : ne forte extimescas faciem potentis, et ponas scandalum in æquitate tua. +Sirach Sir 26 7 7 Non pecces in multitudinem civitatis, nec te immittas in populum : +Sirach Sir 26 7 8 neque alliges duplicia peccata, nec enim in uno eris immunis. +Sirach Sir 26 7 9 Noli esse pusillanimis in animo tuo : +Sirach Sir 26 7 10 exorare et facere eleemosynam ne despicias. +Sirach Sir 26 7 11 Ne dicas : In multitudine munerum meorum respiciet Deus, et offerente me Deo altissimo, munera mea suscipiet. +Sirach Sir 26 7 12 Non irrideas hominem in amaritudine animæ : est enim qui humiliat et exaltat circumspector Deus. +Sirach Sir 26 7 13 Noli amare mendacium adversus fratrem tuum, neque in amicum similiter facias. +Sirach Sir 26 7 14 Noli velle mentiri omne mendacium : assiduitas enim illius non est bona. +Sirach Sir 26 7 15 Noli verbosus esse in multitudine presbyterorum, et non iteres verbum in oratione tua. +Sirach Sir 26 7 16 Non oderis laboriosa opera, et rusticationem creatam ab Altissimo. +Sirach Sir 26 7 17 Non te reputes in multitudine indisciplinatorum. +Sirach Sir 26 7 18 Memento iræ, quoniam non tardabit. +Sirach Sir 26 7 19 Humilia valde spiritum tuum, quoniam vindicta carnis impii ignis et vermis. +Sirach Sir 26 7 20 Noli prævaricari in amicum pecuniam differentem, neque fratrem carissimum auro spreveris. +Sirach Sir 26 7 21 Noli discedere a muliere sensata et bona, quam sortitus es in timore Domini : gratia enim verecundiæ illius super aurum. +Sirach Sir 26 7 22 Non lædas servum in veritate operantem, neque mercenarium dantem animam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 7 23 Servus sensatus sit tibi dilectus quasi anima tua : non defraudes illum libertate, neque inopem derelinquas illum. +Sirach Sir 26 7 24 Pecora tibi sunt, attende illis : et si sunt utilia, perseverent apud te. +Sirach Sir 26 7 25 Filii tibi sunt ? erudi illos, et curva illos a pueritia illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 7 26 Filiæ tibi sunt ? serva corpus illarum, et non ostendas hilarem faciem tuam ad illas. +Sirach Sir 26 7 27 Trade filiam, et grande opus feceris : et homini sensato da illam. +Sirach Sir 26 7 28 Mulier si est tibi secundum animam tuam, non projicias illam : et odibili non credas te. In toto corde tuo +Sirach Sir 26 7 29 honora patrem tuum, et gemitus matris tuæ ne obliviscaris : +Sirach Sir 26 7 30 memento quoniam nisi per illos natus non fuisses : et retribue illis, quomodo et illi tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 7 31 In tota anima tua time Dominum, et sacerdotes illius sanctifica. +Sirach Sir 26 7 32 In omni virtute tua dilige eum qui te fecit, et ministros ejus ne derelinquas. +Sirach Sir 26 7 33 Honora Deum ex tota anima tua, et honorifica sacerdotes, et propurga te cum brachiis. +Sirach Sir 26 7 34 Da illis partem, sicut mandatum est tibi, primitiarum et purgationis, et de negligentia tua purga te cum paucis. +Sirach Sir 26 7 35 Datum brachiorum tuorum, et sacrificium sanctificationis offeres Domino, et initia sanctorum. +Sirach Sir 26 7 36 Et pauperi porrige manum tuam, ut perficiatur propitiatio et benedictio tua. +Sirach Sir 26 7 37 Gratia dati in conspectu omnis viventis, et mortuo non prohibeas gratiam. +Sirach Sir 26 7 38 Non desis plorantibus in consolatione, et cum lugentibus ambula. +Sirach Sir 26 7 39 Non te pigeat visitare infirmum : ex his enim in dilectione firmaberis. +Sirach Sir 26 7 40 In omnibus operibus tuis memorare novissima tua, et in æternum non peccabis. +Sirach Sir 26 8 1 Non litiges cum homine potente, ne forte incidas in manus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 8 2 Non contendas cum viro locuplete, ne forte contra te constituat litem tibi : +Sirach Sir 26 8 3 multos enim perdidit aurum et argentum, et usque ad cor regum extendit et convertit. +Sirach Sir 26 8 4 Non litiges cum homine linguato, et non strues in ignem illius ligna. +Sirach Sir 26 8 5 Non communices homini indocto, ne male de progenie tua loquatur. +Sirach Sir 26 8 6 Ne despicias hominem avertentem se a peccato, neque improperes ei : memento quoniam omnes in correptione sumus. +Sirach Sir 26 8 7 Ne spernas hominem in sua senectute, etenim ex nobis senescunt. +Sirach Sir 26 8 8 Noli de mortuo inimico tuo gaudere : sciens quoniam omnes morimur, et in gaudium nolumus venire. +Sirach Sir 26 8 9 Ne despicias narrationem presbyterorum sapientium, et in proverbiis eorum conversare : +Sirach Sir 26 8 10 ab ipsis enim disces sapientiam et doctrinam intellectus, et servire magnatis sine querela. +Sirach Sir 26 8 11 Non te prætereat narratio seniorum, ipsi enim didicerunt a patribus suis : +Sirach Sir 26 8 12 quoniam ab ipsis disces intellectum, et in tempore necessitatis dare responsum. +Sirach Sir 26 8 13 Non incendas carbones peccatorum arguens eos, et ne incendaris flamma ignis peccatorum illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 8 14 Ne contra faciem stes contumeliosi, ne sedeat quasi insidiator ori tuo. +Sirach Sir 26 8 15 Noli fœnerari homini fortiori te : quod si fœneraveris, quasi perditum habe. +Sirach Sir 26 8 16 Non spondeas super virtutem tuam : quod si spoponderis, quasi restituens cogita. +Sirach Sir 26 8 17 Non judices contra judicem, quoniam secundum quod justum est judicat. +Sirach Sir 26 8 18 Cum audace non eas in via, ne forte gravet mala sua in te : ipse enim secundum voluntatem suam vadit, et simul cum stultitia illius peries. +Sirach Sir 26 8 19 Cum iracundo non facias rixam, et cum audace non eas in desertum : quoniam quasi nihil est ante illum sanguis, et ubi non est adjutorium, elidet te. +Sirach Sir 26 8 20 Cum fatuis consilium non habeas : non enim poterunt diligere nisi quæ eis placent. +Sirach Sir 26 8 21 Coram extraneo ne facias consilium : nescis enim quid pariet. +Sirach Sir 26 8 22 Non omni homini cor tuum manifestes, ne forte inferat tibi gratiam falsam, et convicietur tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 9 1 Non zeles mulierem sinus tui, ne ostendat super te malitiam doctrinæ nequam. +Sirach Sir 26 9 2 Non des mulieri potestatem animæ tuæ, ne ingrediatur in virtutem tuam, et confundaris. +Sirach Sir 26 9 3 Ne respicias mulierem multivolam, ne forte incidas in laqueos illius. +Sirach Sir 26 9 4 Cum saltatrice ne assiduus sis, nec audias illam, ne forte pereas in efficacia illius. +Sirach Sir 26 9 5 Virginem ne conspicias, ne forte scandalizeris in decore illius. +Sirach Sir 26 9 6 Ne des fornicariis animam tuam in ullo, ne perdas te et hæreditatem tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 9 7 Noli circumspicere in vicis civitatis, nec oberraveris in plateis illius. +Sirach Sir 26 9 8 Averte faciem tuam a muliere compta, et ne circumspicias speciem alienam. +Sirach Sir 26 9 9 Propter speciem mulieris multi perierunt : et ex hoc concupiscentia quasi ignis exardescit. +Sirach Sir 26 9 10 Omnis mulier quæ est fornicaria, quasi stercus in via conculcabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 9 11 Speciem mulieris alienæ multi admirati, reprobi facti sunt : colloquium enim illius quasi ignis exardescit. +Sirach Sir 26 9 12 Cum aliena muliere ne sedeas omnino, nec accumbas cum ea super cubitum : +Sirach Sir 26 9 13 et non alterceris cum illa in vino, ne forte declinet cor tuum in illam, et sanguine tuo labaris in perditionem. +Sirach Sir 26 9 14 Ne derelinquas amicum antiquum : novus enim non erit similis illi. +Sirach Sir 26 9 15 Vinum novum amicus novus : veterascet, et cum suavitate bibes illud. +Sirach Sir 26 9 16 Non zeles gloriam et opes peccatoris : non enim scis quæ futura sit illius subversio. +Sirach Sir 26 9 17 Non placeat tibi injuria injustorum, sciens quoniam usque ad inferos non placebit impius. +Sirach Sir 26 9 18 Longe abesto ab homine potestatem habente occidendi, et non suspicaberis timorem mortis. +Sirach Sir 26 9 19 Et si accesseris ad illum, noli aliquid committere, ne forte auferat vitam tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 9 20 Communionem mortis scito, quoniam in medio laqueorum ingredieris, et super dolentium arma ambulabis. +Sirach Sir 26 9 21 Secundum virtutem tuam cave te a proximo tuo, et cum sapientibus et prudentibus tracta. +Sirach Sir 26 9 22 Viri justi sint tibi convivæ, et in timore Dei sit tibi gloriatio : +Sirach Sir 26 9 23 et in sensu sit tibi cogitatus Dei, et omnis enarratio tua in præceptis Altissimi. +Sirach Sir 26 9 24 In manu artificum opera laudabuntur, et princeps populi in sapientia sermonis sui, in sensu vero seniorum verbum. +Sirach Sir 26 9 25 Terribilis est in civitate sua homo linguosus : et temerarius in verbo suo odibilis erit. +Sirach Sir 26 10 1 Judex sapiens judicabit populum suum, et principatus sensati stabilis erit. +Sirach Sir 26 10 2 Secundum judicem populi, sic et ministri ejus : et qualis rector est civitatis, tales et inhabitantes in ea. +Sirach Sir 26 10 3 Rex insipiens perdet populum suum : et civitates inhabitabuntur per sensum potentium. +Sirach Sir 26 10 4 In manu Dei potestas terræ : et utilem rectorem suscitabit in tempus super illam. +Sirach Sir 26 10 5 In manu Dei prosperitas hominis, et super faciem scribæ imponet honorem suum. +Sirach Sir 26 10 6 Omnis injuriæ proximi ne memineris, et nihil agas in operibus injuriæ. +Sirach Sir 26 10 7 Odibilis coram Deo est et hominibus superbia, et execrabilis omnis iniquitas gentium. +Sirach Sir 26 10 8 Regnum a gente in gentem transfertur propter injustitias, et injurias, et contumelias, et diversos dolos. +Sirach Sir 26 10 9 Avaro autem nihil est scelestius. Quid superbit terra et cinis ? +Sirach Sir 26 10 10 Nihil est iniquius quam amare pecuniam : hic enim et animam suam venalem habet, quoniam in vita sua projecit intima sua. +Sirach Sir 26 10 11 Omnis potentatus brevis vita ; languor prolixior gravat medicum. +Sirach Sir 26 10 12 Brevem languorem præcidit medicus : sic et rex hodie est, et cras morietur. +Sirach Sir 26 10 13 Cum enim morietur homo, hæreditabit serpentes, et bestias, et vermes. +Sirach Sir 26 10 14 Initium superbiæ hominis apostatare a Deo : +Sirach Sir 26 10 15 quoniam ab eo qui fecit illum recessit cor ejus, quoniam initium omnis peccati est superbia. Qui tenuerit illam adimplebitur maledictis, et subvertet eum in finem. +Sirach Sir 26 10 16 Propterea exhonoravit Dominus conventus malorum, et destruxit eos usque in finem. +Sirach Sir 26 10 17 Sedes ducum superborum destruxit Deus, et sedere fecit mites pro eis. +Sirach Sir 26 10 18 Radices gentium superbarum arefecit Deus, et plantavit humiles ex ipsis gentibus. +Sirach Sir 26 10 19 Terras gentium evertit Dominus, et perdidit eas usque ad fundamentum. +Sirach Sir 26 10 20 Arefecit ex ipsis, et disperdidit eos, et cessare fecit memoriam eorum a terra. +Sirach Sir 26 10 21 Memoria superborum perdidit Deus, et reliquit memoriam humilium sensu. +Sirach Sir 26 10 22 Non est creata hominibus superbia, neque iracundia nationi mulierum. +Sirach Sir 26 10 23 Semen hominum honorabitur hoc, quod timet Deum : semen autem hoc exhonorabitur, quod præterit mandata Domini. +Sirach Sir 26 10 24 In medio fratrum rector illorum in honore : et qui timent Dominum erunt in oculis illius. +Sirach Sir 26 10 25 Gloria divitum, honoratorum, et pauperum, timor Dei est. +Sirach Sir 26 10 26 Noli despicere hominem justum pauperem, et noli magnificare virum peccatorem divitem. +Sirach Sir 26 10 27 Magnus, et judex, et potens est in honore : et non est major illo qui timet Deum. +Sirach Sir 26 10 28 Servo sensato liberi servient : et vir prudens et disciplinatus non murmurabit correptus, et inscius non honorabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 10 29 Noli extollere te in faciendo opere tuo, et noli cunctari in tempore angustiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 10 30 Melior est qui operatur et abundat in omnibus, quam qui gloriatur et eget pane. +Sirach Sir 26 10 31 Fili, in mansuetudine serva animam tuam, et da illi honorem secundum meritum suum. +Sirach Sir 26 10 32 Peccantem in animam suam quis justificabit ? et quis honorificabit exhonorantem animam suam ? +Sirach Sir 26 10 33 Pauper gloriatur per disciplinam et timorem suum : et est homo qui honorificatur propter substantiam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 10 34 Qui autem gloriatur in paupertate, quanto magis in substantia ! et qui gloriatur in substantia, paupertatem vereatur. +Sirach Sir 26 11 1 Sapientia humiliati exaltabit caput illius, et in medio magnatorum consedere illum faciet. +Sirach Sir 26 11 2 Non laudes virum in specie sua, neque spernas hominem in visu suo. +Sirach Sir 26 11 3 Brevis in volatilibus est apis, et initium dulcoris habet fructus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 11 4 In vestitu ne glorieris umquam, nec in die honoris tui extollaris : quoniam mirabilia opera Altissimi solius, et gloriosa, et absconsa, et invisa opera illius. +Sirach Sir 26 11 5 Multi tyranni sederunt in throno : et insuspicabilis portavit diadema. +Sirach Sir 26 11 6 Multi potentes oppressi sunt valide, et gloriosi traditi sunt in manus alterorum. +Sirach Sir 26 11 7 Priusquam interroges, ne vituperes quemquam : et cum interrogaveris, corripe juste. +Sirach Sir 26 11 8 Priusquam audias, ne respondeas verbum : et in medio sermonum ne adjicias loqui. +Sirach Sir 26 11 9 De ea re quæ te non molestat, ne certeris : et in judicio peccantium ne consistas. +Sirach Sir 26 11 10 Fili, ne in multis sint actus tui : et si dives fueris, non eris immunis a delicto. Si enim secutus fueris, non apprehendes : et non effugies, si præcucurreris. +Sirach Sir 26 11 11 Est homo laborans et festinans, et dolens : impius, et tanto magis non abundabit. +Sirach Sir 26 11 12 Est homo marcidus egens recuperatione, plus deficiens virtute, et abundans paupertate : +Sirach Sir 26 11 13 et oculus Dei respexit illum in bono, et erexit eum ab humilitate ipsius, et exaltavit caput ejus : et mirati sunt in illo multi, et honoraverunt Deum. +Sirach Sir 26 11 14 Bona et mala, vita et mors, paupertas et honestas, a Deo sunt : +Sirach Sir 26 11 15 sapientia, et disciplina, et scientia legis, apud Deum : dilectio, et viæ bonorum, apud ipsum. +Sirach Sir 26 11 16 Error et tenebræ peccatoribus concreata sunt : qui autem exsultant in malis consenescunt in malo. +Sirach Sir 26 11 17 Datio Dei permanet justis, et profectus illius successus habebit in æternum. +Sirach Sir 26 11 18 Est qui locupletatur parce agendo, et hæc est pars mercedis illius. +Sirach Sir 26 11 19 In eo quod dicit : Inveni requiem mihi, et nunc manducabo de bonis meis solus : +Sirach Sir 26 11 20 et nescit quod tempus præteriet, et mors appropinquet, et relinquat omnia aliis, et morietur. +Sirach Sir 26 11 21 Sta in testamento tuo, et in illo colloquere, et in opere mandatorum tuorum veterasce. +Sirach Sir 26 11 22 Ne manseris in operibus peccatorum : confide autem in Deo, et mane in loco tuo. +Sirach Sir 26 11 23 Facile est enim in oculis Dei subito honestare pauperem. +Sirach Sir 26 11 24 Benedictio Dei in mercedem justi festinat, et in hora veloci processus illius fructificat. +Sirach Sir 26 11 25 Ne dicas : Quid est mihi opus ? et quæ erunt mihi ex hoc bona ? +Sirach Sir 26 11 26 Ne dicas : Sufficiens mihi sum : et quid ex hoc pessimabor ? +Sirach Sir 26 11 27 In die bonorum ne immemor sis malorum, et in die malorum ne immemor sis bonorum : +Sirach Sir 26 11 28 quoniam facile est coram Deo in die obitus retribuere unicuique secundum vias suas. +Sirach Sir 26 11 29 Malitia horæ oblivionem facit luxuriæ magnæ, et in fine hominis denudatio operum illius. +Sirach Sir 26 11 30 Ante mortem ne laudes hominem quemquam : quoniam in filiis suis agnoscitur vir. +Sirach Sir 26 11 31 Non omnem hominem inducas in domum tuam : multæ enim sunt insidiæ dolosi. +Sirach Sir 26 11 32 Sicut enim eructant præcordia fœtentium, et sicut perdix inducitur in caveam, et ut caprea in laqueum : sic et cor superborum, et sicut prospector videns casum proximi sui. +Sirach Sir 26 11 33 Bona enim in mala convertens insidiatur, et in electis imponet maculam. +Sirach Sir 26 11 34 A scintilla una augetur ignis, et ab uno doloso augetur sanguis : homo vero peccator sanguini insidiatur. +Sirach Sir 26 11 35 Attende tibi a pestifero, fabricat enim mala, ne inducat super te subsannationem in perpetuum. +Sirach Sir 26 11 36 Admitte ad te alienigenam : et subvertet te in turbine, et abalienabit te a tuis propriis. +Sirach Sir 26 12 1 Si benefeceris, scito cui feceris, et erit gratia in bonis tuis multa. +Sirach Sir 26 12 2 Benefac justo, et invenies retributionem magnam : et si non ab ipso, certe a Domino. +Sirach Sir 26 12 3 Non est enim ei bene qui assiduus est in malis, et eleemosynas non danti : quoniam et Altissimus odio habet peccatores, et misertus est pœnitentibus. +Sirach Sir 26 12 4 Da misericordi, et ne suscipias peccatorem : et impiis et peccatoribus reddet vindictam, custodiens eos in diem vindictæ. +Sirach Sir 26 12 5 Da bono, et non receperis peccatorem. +Sirach Sir 26 12 6 Benefac humili, et non dederis impio : prohibe panes illi dari, ne in ipsis potentior te sit : +Sirach Sir 26 12 7 nam duplicia mala invenies in omnibus bonis quæcumque feceris illi, quoniam et Altissimus odio habet peccatores, et impiis reddet vindictam. +Sirach Sir 26 12 8 Non agnoscetur in bonis amicus, et non abscondetur in malis inimicus. +Sirach Sir 26 12 9 In bonis viri, inimici illius in tristitia : et in malitia illius, amicus agnitus est. +Sirach Sir 26 12 10 Non credas inimico tuo in æternum : sicut enim æramentum æruginat nequitia illius : +Sirach Sir 26 12 11 et si humiliatus vadat curvus, adjice animum tuum, et custodi te ab illo. +Sirach Sir 26 12 12 Non statuas illum penes te, nec sedeat ad dexteram tuam, ne forte conversus in locum tuum, inquirat cathedram tuam, et in novissimo agnosces verba mea, et in sermonibus meis stimuleris. +Sirach Sir 26 12 13 Quis miserebitur incantatori a serpente percusso, et omnibus qui appropiant bestiis ? et sic qui comitatur cum viro iniquo, et obvolutus est in peccatis ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 12 14 Una hora tecum permanebit : si autem declinaveris, non supportabit. +Sirach Sir 26 12 15 In labiis suis indulcat inimicus, et in corde suo insidiatur ut subvertat te in foveam. +Sirach Sir 26 12 16 In oculis suis lacrimatur inimicus, et si invenerit tempus, non satiabitur sanguine. +Sirach Sir 26 12 17 Et si incurrerint tibi mala, invenies eum illic priorem. +Sirach Sir 26 12 18 In oculis suis lacrimatur inimicus, et quasi adjuvans suffodiet plantas tuas. +Sirach Sir 26 12 19 Caput suum movebit, et plaudet manu, et multa susurrans commutabit vultum suum. +Sirach Sir 26 13 1 Qui tetigerit picem inquinabitur ab ea : et qui communicaverit superbo induet superbiam. +Sirach Sir 26 13 2 Pondus super se tollat qui honestiori se communicat, et ditiori te ne socius fueris. +Sirach Sir 26 13 3 Quid communicabit cacabus ad ollam ? quando enim se colliserint, confringetur. +Sirach Sir 26 13 4 Dives injuste egit, et fremet : pauper autem læsus tacebit. +Sirach Sir 26 13 5 Si largitus fueris, assumet te : et si non habueris, derelinquet te. +Sirach Sir 26 13 6 Si habes, convivet tecum, et evacuabit te : et ipse non dolebit super te. +Sirach Sir 26 13 7 Si necessarius illi fueris, supplantabit te, et subridens spem dabit, narrans tibi bona, et dicet : Quid opus est tibi ? +Sirach Sir 26 13 8 Et confundet te in cibis suis, donec te exinaniat bis et ter : et in novissimo deridebit te, et postea videns derelinquet te, et caput suum movebit ad te. +Sirach Sir 26 13 9 Humiliare Deo, et exspecta manus ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 13 10 Attende ne seductus in stultitiam humilieris. +Sirach Sir 26 13 11 Noli esse humilis in sapientia tua, ne humiliatus in stultitiam seducaris. +Sirach Sir 26 13 12 Advocatus a potentiore, discede : ex hoc enim magis te advocabit. +Sirach Sir 26 13 13 Ne improbus sis, ne impingaris : et ne longe sis ab eo, ne eas in oblivionem. +Sirach Sir 26 13 14 Ne retineas ex æquo loqui cum illo, nec credas multis verbis illius : ex multa enim loquela tentabit te, et subridens interrogabit te de absconditis tuis. +Sirach Sir 26 13 15 Immitis animus illius conservabit verba tua : et non parcet de malitia, et de vinculis. +Sirach Sir 26 13 16 Cave tibi, et attende diligenter auditui tuo, quoniam cum subversione tua ambulas : +Sirach Sir 26 13 17 audiens vero illa, quasi in somnis vide, et vigilabis. +Sirach Sir 26 13 18 Omni vita tua dilige Deum, et invoca illum in salute tua. +Sirach Sir 26 13 19 Omne animal diligit simile sibi, sic et omnis homo proximum sibi. +Sirach Sir 26 13 20 Omnis caro ad similem sibi conjungetur, et omnis homo simili sui sociabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 13 21 Si communicabit lupus agno aliquando, sic peccator justo. +Sirach Sir 26 13 22 Quæ communicatio sancto homini ad canem ? aut quæ pars diviti ad pauperem ? +Sirach Sir 26 13 23 Venatio leonis onager in eremo : sic et pascua divitum sunt pauperes. +Sirach Sir 26 13 24 Et sicut abominatio est superbo humilitas, sic et execratio divitis pauper. +Sirach Sir 26 13 25 Dives commotus confirmatur ab amicis suis : humilis autem cum ceciderit, expelletur et a notis. +Sirach Sir 26 13 26 Diviti decepto multi recuperatores : locutus est superbia, et justificaverunt illum. +Sirach Sir 26 13 27 Humilis deceptus est, insuper et arguitur : locutus est sensate, et non est datus ei locus. +Sirach Sir 26 13 28 Dives locutus est, et omnes tacuerunt, et verbum illius usque ad nubes perducent. +Sirach Sir 26 13 29 Pauper locutus est, et dicunt : Quis est hic ? et si offenderit, subvertent illum. +Sirach Sir 26 13 30 Bona est substantia cui non est peccatum in conscientia : et nequissima paupertas in ore impii. +Sirach Sir 26 13 31 Cor hominis immutat faciem illius, sive in bona, sive in mala. +Sirach Sir 26 13 32 Vestigium cordis boni et faciem bonam difficile invenies, et cum labore. +Sirach Sir 26 14 1 Beatus vir qui non est lapsus verbo ex ore suo, et non est stimulatus in tristitia delicti. +Sirach Sir 26 14 2 Felix qui non habuit animi sui tristitiam, et non excidit a spe sua. +Sirach Sir 26 14 3 Viro cupido et tenaci sine ratione est substantia : et homini livido ad quid aurum ? +Sirach Sir 26 14 4 Qui acervat ex animo suo injuste, aliis congregat, et in bonis illius alius luxuriabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 14 5 Qui sibi nequam est, cui alii bonus erit ? et non jucundabitur in bonis suis. +Sirach Sir 26 14 6 Qui sibi invidet, nihil est illo nequius : et hæc redditio est malitiæ illius. +Sirach Sir 26 14 7 Et si bene fecerit, ignoranter et non volens facit : et in novissimo manifestat malitiam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 14 8 Nequam est oculus lividi : et avertens faciem suam, et despiciens animam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 14 9 Insatiabilis oculus cupidi in parte iniquitatis : non satiabitur donec consumat arefaciens animam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 14 10 Oculus malus ad mala, et non saturabitur pane, sed indigens et in tristitia erit super mensam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 14 11 Fili, si habes, benefac tecum, et Deo dignas oblationes offer. +Sirach Sir 26 14 12 Memor esto quoniam mors non tardat, et testamentum inferorum, quia demonstratum est tibi : testamentum enim hujus mundi morte morietur. +Sirach Sir 26 14 13 Ante mortem benefac amico tuo, et secundum vires tuas exporrigens da pauperi. +Sirach Sir 26 14 14 Non defrauderis a die bono, et particula boni doni non te prætereat. +Sirach Sir 26 14 15 Nonne aliis relinques dolores et labores tuos in divisione sortis ? +Sirach Sir 26 14 16 Da et accipe, et justifica animam tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 14 17 Ante obitum tuum operare justitiam, quoniam non est apud inferos invenire cibum. +Sirach Sir 26 14 18 Omnis caro sicut fœnum veterascet, et sicut folium fructificans in arbore viridi. +Sirach Sir 26 14 19 Alia generantur, et alia dejiciuntur : sic generatio carnis et sanguinis, alia finitur, et alia nascitur. +Sirach Sir 26 14 20 Omne opus corruptibile in fine deficiet, et qui illud operatur ibit cum illo. +Sirach Sir 26 14 21 Et omne opus electum justificabitur, et qui operatur illud honorabitur in illo. +Sirach Sir 26 14 22 Beatus vir qui in sapientia morabitur, et qui in justitia sua meditabitur, et in sensu cogitabit circumspectionem Dei : +Sirach Sir 26 14 23 qui excogitat vias illius in corde suo, et in absconditis suis intelligens, vadens post illam quasi investigator, et in viis illius consistens : +Sirach Sir 26 14 24 qui respicit per fenestras illius, et in januis illius audiens : +Sirach Sir 26 14 25 qui requiescit juxta domum illius, et in parietibus illius figens palum, statuet casulam suam ad manus illius, et requiescent in casula illius bona per ævum. +Sirach Sir 26 14 26 Statuet filios suos sub tegmine illius, et sub ramis ejus morabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 14 27 Protegetur sub tegmine illius a fervore, et in gloria ejus requiescet. +Sirach Sir 26 15 1 Qui timet Deum faciet bona, et qui continens est justitiæ apprehendet illam : +Sirach Sir 26 15 2 et obviabit illi quasi mater honorificata, et quasi mulier a virginitate suscipiet illum. +Sirach Sir 26 15 3 Cibabit illum pane vitæ et intellectus, et aqua sapientiæ salutaris potabit illum : et firmabitur in illo, et non flectetur : +Sirach Sir 26 15 4 et continebit illum, et non confundetur : et exaltabit illum apud proximos suos, +Sirach Sir 26 15 5 et in medio ecclesiæ aperiet os ejus, et adimplebit illum spiritu sapientiæ et intellectus, et stola gloriæ vestiet illum. +Sirach Sir 26 15 6 Jucunditatem et exsultationem thesaurizabit super illum, et nomine æterno hæreditabit illum. +Sirach Sir 26 15 7 Homines stulti non apprehendent illam, et homines sensati obviabunt illi. Homines stulti non videbunt eam : longe enim abest a superbia et dolo. +Sirach Sir 26 15 8 Viri mendaces non erunt illius memores : et viri veraces invenientur in illa, et successum habebunt usque ad inspectionem Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 15 9 Non est speciosa laus in ore peccatoris, +Sirach Sir 26 15 10 quoniam a Deo profecta est sapientia. Sapientiæ enim Dei astabit laus, et in ore fideli abundabit, et Dominator dabit eam illi. +Sirach Sir 26 15 11 Non dixeris : Per Deum abest : quæ enim odit ne feceris. +Sirach Sir 26 15 12 Non dicas : Ille me implanavit : non enim necessarii sunt ei homines impii. +Sirach Sir 26 15 13 Omne execramentum erroris odit Dominus, et non erit amabile timentibus eum. +Sirach Sir 26 15 14 Deus ab initio constituit hominem, et reliquit illum in manu consilii sui : +Sirach Sir 26 15 15 adjecit mandata et præcepta sua. +Sirach Sir 26 15 16 Si volueris mandata servare, conservabunt te, et in perpetuum fidem placitam facere. +Sirach Sir 26 15 17 Apposuit tibi aquam et ignem, ad quod volueris porrige manum tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 15 18 Ante hominem vita et mors, bonum et malum : quod placuerit ei dabitur illi : +Sirach Sir 26 15 19 quoniam multa sapientia Dei, et fortis in potentia, videns omnes sine intermissione. +Sirach Sir 26 15 20 Oculi Domini ad timentes eum, et ipse agnoscit omnem operam hominis. +Sirach Sir 26 15 21 Nemini mandavit impie agere, et nemini dedit spatium peccandi : +Sirach Sir 26 15 22 non enim concupiscit multitudinem filiorum infidelium et inutilium. +Sirach Sir 26 16 1 Ne jucunderis in filiis impiis, si multiplicentur : nec oblecteris super ipsos, si non est timor Dei in illis. +Sirach Sir 26 16 2 Non credas vitæ illorum, et ne respexeris in labores eorum. +Sirach Sir 26 16 3 Melior est enim unus timens Deum, quam mille filii impii : +Sirach Sir 26 16 4 et utile est mori sine filiis, quam relinquere filios impios. +Sirach Sir 26 16 5 Ab uno sensato inhabitabitur patria : tribus impiorum deseretur. +Sirach Sir 26 16 6 Multa talia vidit oculis meus, et fortiora horum audivit auris mea. +Sirach Sir 26 16 7 In synagoga peccantium exardebit ignis, et in gente incredibili exardescet ira. +Sirach Sir 26 16 8 Non exoraverunt pro peccatis suis antiqui gigantes, qui destructi sunt confidentes suæ virtuti. +Sirach Sir 26 16 9 Et non pepercit peregrinationi Lot, et execratus est eos præ superbia verbi illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 16 10 Non misertus est illis, gentem totam perdens, et extollentem se in peccatis suis. +Sirach Sir 26 16 11 Et sicut sexcenta millia peditum, qui congregati sunt in duritia cordis sui : et si unus fuisset cervicatus, mirum si fuisset immunis. +Sirach Sir 26 16 12 Misericordia enim et ira est cum illo : potens exoratio, et effundens iram. +Sirach Sir 26 16 13 Secundum misericordiam suam, sic correptio illius homines secundum opera sua judicat. +Sirach Sir 26 16 14 Non effugiet in rapina peccator, et non retardabit sufferentia misericordiam facientis. +Sirach Sir 26 16 15 Omnis misericordia faciet locum unicuique, secundum meritum operum suorum, et secundum intellectum peregrinationis ipsius. +Sirach Sir 26 16 16 Non dicas : A Deo abscondar : et ex summo, quis mei memorabitur ? +Sirach Sir 26 16 17 in populo magno non agnoscar : quæ est enim anima mea in tam immensa creatura ? +Sirach Sir 26 16 18 Ecce cælum et cæli cælorum, abyssus, et universa terra, et quæ in eis sunt, in conspectu illius commovebuntur. +Sirach Sir 26 16 19 Montes simul, et colles, et fundamenta terræ, cum conspexerit illa Deus, tremore concutientur. +Sirach Sir 26 16 20 Et in omnibus his insensatum est cor, et omne cor intelligitur ab illo. +Sirach Sir 26 16 21 Et vias illius quis intelligit, et procellam quam nec oculus videbit hominis ? +Sirach Sir 26 16 22 Nam plurima illius opera sunt in absconsis : sed opera justitiæ ejus quis enuntiabit, aut quis sustinebit ? longe enim est testamentum a quibusdam, et interrogatio omnium in consummatione est. +Sirach Sir 26 16 23 Qui minoratur corde cogitat inania, et vir imprudens et errans cogitat stulta. +Sirach Sir 26 16 24 Audi me, fili, et disce disciplinam sensus, et in verbis meis attende in corde tuo : +Sirach Sir 26 16 25 et dicam in æquitate disciplinam, et scrutabor enarrare sapientiam : et in verbis meis attende in corde tuo, et dico in æquitate spiritus virtutes quas posuit Deus in opera sua ab initio, et in veritate enuntio scientiam ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 16 26 In judicio Dei opera ejus ab initio, et ab institutione ipsorum distinxit partes illorum, et initia eorum in gentibus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 16 27 Ornavit in æternum opera illorum : nec esurierunt, nec laboraverunt, et non destiterunt ab operibus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 16 28 Unusquisque proximum sibi non angustiabit in æternum : +Sirach Sir 26 16 29 non sis incredibilis verbo illius. +Sirach Sir 26 16 30 Post hæc Deus in terram respexit, et implevit illam bonis suis : +Sirach Sir 26 16 31 anima omnis vitalis denuntiavit ante faciem ipsius, et in ipsam iterum reversio illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 17 1 Deus creavit de terra hominem, et secundum imaginem suam fecit illum : +Sirach Sir 26 17 2 et iterum convertit illum in ipsam, et secundum se vestivit illum virtute. +Sirach Sir 26 17 3 Numerum dierum et tempus dedit illi, et dedit illi potestatem eorum quæ sunt super terram. +Sirach Sir 26 17 4 Posuit timorem illius super omnem carnem, et dominatus est bestiarum et volatilium. +Sirach Sir 26 17 5 Creavit ex ipso adjutorium simile sibi : consilium, et linguam, et oculos, et aures, et cor dedit illis excogitandi, et disciplina intellectus replevit illos. +Sirach Sir 26 17 6 Creavit illis scientiam spiritus, sensu implevit cor illorum, et mala et bona ostendit illis. +Sirach Sir 26 17 7 Posuit oculum suum super corda illorum, ostendere illis magnalia operum suorum : +Sirach Sir 26 17 8 ut nomen sanctificationis collaudent, et gloriari in mirabilibus illius ; ut magnalia enarrent operum ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 17 9 Addidit illis disciplinam, et legem vitæ hæreditavit illos. +Sirach Sir 26 17 10 Testamentum æternum constituit cum illis, et justitiam et judicia sua ostendit illis. +Sirach Sir 26 17 11 Et magnalia honoris ejus vidit oculus illorum, et honorem vocis audierunt aures illorum. Et dixit illis : Attendite ab omni iniquo. +Sirach Sir 26 17 12 Et mandavit illis unicuique de proximo suo. +Sirach Sir 26 17 13 Viæ illorum coram ipso sunt semper : non sunt absconsæ ab oculis ipsius. +Sirach Sir 26 17 14 In unamquamque gentem præposuit rectorem : +Sirach Sir 26 17 15 et pars Dei Israël facta est manifesta. +Sirach Sir 26 17 16 Et omnia opera illorum velut sol in conspectu Dei : et oculi ejus sine intermissione inspicientes in viis eorum. +Sirach Sir 26 17 17 Non sunt absconsa testamenta per iniquitatem illorum, et omnes iniquitates eorum in conspectu Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 17 18 Eleemosyna viri quasi signaculum cum ipso, et gratiam hominis quasi pupillam conservabit. +Sirach Sir 26 17 19 Et postea resurget, et retribuet illis retributionem, unicuique in caput ipsorum, et convertet in interiores partes terræ. +Sirach Sir 26 17 20 Pœnitentibus autem dedit viam justitiæ, et confirmavit deficientes sustinere, et destinavit illis sortem veritatis. +Sirach Sir 26 17 21 Convertere ad Dominum, et relinque peccata tua : +Sirach Sir 26 17 22 precare ante faciem Domini, et minue offendicula. +Sirach Sir 26 17 23 Revertere ad Dominum, et avertere ab injustitia tua, et nimis odito execrationem : +Sirach Sir 26 17 24 et cognosce justitias et judicia Dei, et sta in sorte propositionis, et orationis altissimi Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 17 25 In partes vade sæculi sancti, cum vivis et dantibus confessionem Deo. +Sirach Sir 26 17 26 Non demoreris in errore impiorum : ante mortem confitere : a mortuo, quasi nihil, perit confessio. +Sirach Sir 26 17 27 Confiteberis vivens, vivus et sanus confiteberis : et laudabis Deum, et gloriaberis in miserationibus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 17 28 Quam magna misericordia Domini, et propitiatio illius convertentibus ad se ! +Sirach Sir 26 17 29 Nec enim omnia possunt esse in hominibus, quoniam non est immortalis filius hominis, et in vanitate malitiæ placuerunt. +Sirach Sir 26 17 30 Quid lucidius sole ? et hic deficiet ; aut quid nequius quam quod excogitavit caro et sanguis ? et hoc arguetur. +Sirach Sir 26 17 31 Virtutem altitudinis cæli ipse conspicit : et omnes homines terra et cinis. +Sirach Sir 26 18 1 Qui vivet in æternum creavit omnia simul. Deus solus justificabitur, et manet invictus rex in æternum. +Sirach Sir 26 18 2 Quis sufficit enarrare opera illius ? +Sirach Sir 26 18 3 quis enim investigabit magnalia ejus ? +Sirach Sir 26 18 4 virtutem autem magnitudinis ejus quis enuntiabit ? aut quis adjiciet enarrare misericordiam ejus ? +Sirach Sir 26 18 5 Non est minuere neque adjicere, nec est invenire magnalia Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 18 6 Cum consummaverit homo, tunc incipiet : et cum quieverit, aporiabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 18 7 Quid est homo ? et quæ est gratia illius ? et quid bonum aut quid nequam illius ? +Sirach Sir 26 18 8 Numerus dierum hominum, ut multum centum anni, quasi gutta aquæ maris deputati sunt : et sicut calculus arenæ, sic exigui anni in die ævi. +Sirach Sir 26 18 9 Propter hoc patiens est Deus in illis, et effundit super eos misericordiam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 18 10 Vidit præsumptionem cordis eorum, quoniam mala est : et cognovit subversionem illorum, quoniam nequam est. +Sirach Sir 26 18 11 Ideo adimplevit propitiationem suam in illis, et ostendit eis viam æquitatis. +Sirach Sir 26 18 12 Miseratio hominis circa proximum suum : misericordia autem Dei super omnem carnem. +Sirach Sir 26 18 13 Qui misericordiam habet, docet et erudit quasi pastor gregem suum. +Sirach Sir 26 18 14 Miseretur excipientis doctrinam miserationis, et qui festinat in judiciis ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 18 15 Fili, in bonis non des querelam, et in omni dato non des tristitiam verbi mali. +Sirach Sir 26 18 16 Nonne ardorem refrigerabit ros ? sic et verbum melius quam datum. +Sirach Sir 26 18 17 Nonne ecce verbum super datum bonum ? sed utraque cum homine justificato. +Sirach Sir 26 18 18 Stultus acriter improperabit : et datus indisciplinati tabescere facit oculos. +Sirach Sir 26 18 19 Ante judicium para justitiam tibi, et antequam loquaris, disce. +Sirach Sir 26 18 20 Ante languorem adhibe medicinam : et ante judicium interroga teipsum, et in conspectu Dei invenies propitiationem. +Sirach Sir 26 18 21 Ante languorem humilia te, et in tempore infirmitatis ostende conversationem tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 18 22 Non impediaris orare semper, et ne verearis usque ad mortem justificari, quoniam merces Dei manet in æternum. +Sirach Sir 26 18 23 Ante orationem præpara animam tuam, et noli esse quasi homo qui tentat Deum. +Sirach Sir 26 18 24 Memento iræ in die consummationis, et tempus retributionis in conversatione faciei. +Sirach Sir 26 18 25 Memento paupertatis in tempore abundantiæ, et necessitatum paupertatis in die divitiarum. +Sirach Sir 26 18 26 A mane usque ad vesperam immutabitur tempus, et hæc omnia citata in oculis Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 18 27 Homo sapiens in omnibus metuet, et in diebus delictorum attendet ab inertia. +Sirach Sir 26 18 28 Omnis astutus agnoscit sapientiam, et invenienti eam dabit confessionem. +Sirach Sir 26 18 29 Sensati in verbis et ipsi sapienter egerunt, et intellexerunt veritatem et justitiam, et impluerunt proverbia et judicia. +Sirach Sir 26 18 30 Post concupiscentias tuas non eas, et a voluntate tua avertere. +Sirach Sir 26 18 31 Si præstes animæ tuæ concupiscentias ejus, faciat te in gaudium inimicis tuis. +Sirach Sir 26 18 32 Ne oblecteris in turbis nec in modicis : assidua enim est commissio illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 18 33 Ne fueris mediocris in contentione ex fœnore, et est tibi nihil in sacculo : eris enim invidus vitæ tuæ. +Sirach Sir 26 19 1 Operarius ebriosus non locupletabitur : et qui spernit modica paulatim decidet. +Sirach Sir 26 19 2 Vinum et mulieres apostatare faciunt sapientes, et arguent sensatos. +Sirach Sir 26 19 3 Et qui se jungit fornicariis erit nequam : putredo et vermes hæreditabunt illum : et extolletur in exemplum majus, et tolletur de numero anima ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 19 4 Qui credit cito levis corde est, et minorabitur : et qui delinquit in animam suam, insuper habebitur. +Sirach Sir 26 19 5 Qui gaudet iniquitate, denotabitur : et qui odit correptionem, minuetur vita : et qui odit loquacitatem, extinguit malitiam. +Sirach Sir 26 19 6 Qui peccat in animam suam, pœnitebit : et qui jucundatur in malitia, denotabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 19 7 Ne iteres verbum nequam et durum, et non minoraberis. +Sirach Sir 26 19 8 Amico et inimico noli narrare sensum tuum : et si est tibi delictum, noli denudare : +Sirach Sir 26 19 9 audiet enim te, et custodiet te, et quasi defendens peccatum, odiet te, et sic aderit tibi semper. +Sirach Sir 26 19 10 Audisti verbum adversus proximum tuum ? commoriatur in te, fidens quoniam non te dirumpet. +Sirach Sir 26 19 11 A facie verbi parturit fatuus, tamquam gemitus partus infantis. +Sirach Sir 26 19 12 Sagitta infixa femori carnis, sic verbum in corde stulti. +Sirach Sir 26 19 13 Corripe amicum, ne forte non intellexerit, et dicat : Non feci : aut, si fecerit, ne iterum addat facere. +Sirach Sir 26 19 14 Corripe proximum, ne forte non dixerit : et si dixerit, ne forte iteret. +Sirach Sir 26 19 15 Corripe amicum, sæpe enim fit commissio : +Sirach Sir 26 19 16 et non omni verbo credas. Est qui labitur lingua, sed non ex animo : +Sirach Sir 26 19 17 quis est enim qui non deliquerit in lingua sua ? Corripe proximum antequam commineris, +Sirach Sir 26 19 18 et da locum timori Altissimi : quia omnis sapientia timor Dei, et in illa timere Deum, et in omni sapientia dispositio legis. +Sirach Sir 26 19 19 Et non est sapientia nequitiæ disciplina, et non est cogitatus peccatorum prudentia. +Sirach Sir 26 19 20 Est nequitia, et in ipsa execratio, et est insipiens qui minuitur sapientia. +Sirach Sir 26 19 21 Melior est homo qui minuitur sapientia, et deficiens sensu, in timore, quam qui abundat sensu, et transgreditur legem Altissimi. +Sirach Sir 26 19 22 Est solertia certa, et ipsa iniqua : +Sirach Sir 26 19 23 et est qui emittit verbum certum enarrans veritatem. Est qui nequiter humiliat se, et interiora ejus plena sunt dolo : +Sirach Sir 26 19 24 et est qui se nimium submittit a multa humilitate : et est qui inclinat faciem suam, et fingit se non videre quod ignoratum est : +Sirach Sir 26 19 25 et si ab imbecillitate virium vetetur peccare, si invenerit tempus malefaciendi, malefaciet. +Sirach Sir 26 19 26 Ex visu cognoscitur vir, et ab occursu faciei cognoscitur sensatus. +Sirach Sir 26 19 27 Amictus corporis, et risus dentium, et ingressus hominis, enuntiant de illo. +Sirach Sir 26 19 28 Est correptio mendax in ira contumeliosi, et est judicium quod non probatur esse bonum : et est tacens, et ipse est prudens. +Sirach Sir 26 20 1 Quam bonum est arguere, quam irasci, et confitentem in oratione non prohibere ! +Sirach Sir 26 20 2 Concupiscentia spadonis devirginabit juvenculam : +Sirach Sir 26 20 3 sic qui facit per vim judicium iniquum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 4 Quam bonum est correptum manifestare pœnitentiam ! sic enim effugies voluntarium peccatum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 5 Est tacens qui invenitur sapiens : et est odibilis qui procax est ad loquendum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 6 Est tacens non habens sensum loquelæ : et est tacens sciens tempus aptum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 7 Homo sapiens tacebit usque ad tempus : lascivus autem et imprudens non servabunt tempus. +Sirach Sir 26 20 8 Qui multis utitur verbis lædet animam suam : et qui potestatem sibi sumit injuste, odietur. +Sirach Sir 26 20 9 Est processio in malis viro indisciplinato, et est inventio in detrimentum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 10 Est datum quod non est utile, et est datum cujus retributio duplex. +Sirach Sir 26 20 11 Est propter gloriam minoratio, et est qui ab humilitate levabit caput. +Sirach Sir 26 20 12 Est qui multa redimat modico pretio, et restituens ea in septuplum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 13 Sapiens in verbis seipsum amabilem facit : gratiæ autem fatuorum effundentur. +Sirach Sir 26 20 14 Datus insipientis non erit utilis tibi : oculi enim illius septemplices sunt. +Sirach Sir 26 20 15 Exigua dabit, et multa improperabit : et apertio oris illius inflammatio est. +Sirach Sir 26 20 16 Hodie fœneratur quis, et cras expetit : odibilis est homo hujusmodi. +Sirach Sir 26 20 17 Fatuo non erit amicus, et non erit gratia bonis illius : +Sirach Sir 26 20 18 qui enim edunt panem illius, falsæ linguæ sunt. Quoties et quanti irridebunt eum ! +Sirach Sir 26 20 19 neque enim quod habendum erat directo sensu distribuit ; similiter et quod non erat habendum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 20 Lapsus falsæ linguæ quasi qui in pavimento cadens : sic casus malorum festinanter veniet. +Sirach Sir 26 20 21 Homo acharis quasi fabula vana, in ore indisciplinatorum assidua erit. +Sirach Sir 26 20 22 Ex ore fatui reprobabitur parabola : non enim dicit illam in tempore suo. +Sirach Sir 26 20 23 Est qui vetatur peccare præ inopia, et in requie sua stimulabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 20 24 Est qui perdet animam suam præ confusione, et ab imprudenti persona perdet eam : personæ autem acceptione perdet se. +Sirach Sir 26 20 25 Est qui præ confusione promittit amico, et lucratus est eum inimicum gratis. +Sirach Sir 26 20 26 Opprobrium nequam in homine mendacium : et in ore indisciplinatorum assidue erit. +Sirach Sir 26 20 27 Potior fur quam assiduitas viri mendacis : perditionem autem ambo hæreditabunt. +Sirach Sir 26 20 28 Mores hominum mendacium sine honore, et confusio illorum cum ipsis sine intermissione. +Sirach Sir 26 20 29 Sapiens in verbis producet seipsum, et homo prudens placebit magnatis. +Sirach Sir 26 20 30 Qui operatur terram suam inaltabit acervum frugum, et qui operatur justitiam, ipse exaltabitur : qui vero placet magnatis effugiet iniquitatem. +Sirach Sir 26 20 31 Xenia et dona excæcant oculos judicum, et quasi mutus, in ore avertit correptiones eorum. +Sirach Sir 26 20 32 Sapientia absconsa, et thesaurus invisus, quæ utilitas in utrisque ? +Sirach Sir 26 20 33 Melior est qui celat insipientiam suam, quam homo qui abscondit sapientiam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 21 1 Fili, peccasti, non adjicias iterum : sed et de pristinis deprecare, ut tibi dimittantur. +Sirach Sir 26 21 2 Quasi a facie colubri fuge peccata : et si accesseris ad illa, suscipient te. +Sirach Sir 26 21 3 Dentes leonis dentes ejus, interficientes animas hominum. +Sirach Sir 26 21 4 Quasi rhomphæa bis acuta omnis iniquitas : plagæ illius non est sanitas. +Sirach Sir 26 21 5 Objurgatio et injuriæ annullabunt substantiam, et domus quæ nimis locuples est annullabitur superbia : sic substantia superbi eradicabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 21 6 Deprecatio pauperis ex ore usque ad aures ejus perveniet, et judicium festinato adveniet illi. +Sirach Sir 26 21 7 Qui odit correptionem vestigium est peccatoris, et qui timet Deum convertetur ad cor suum. +Sirach Sir 26 21 8 Notus a longe potens lingua audaci, et sensatus scit labi se ab ipso. +Sirach Sir 26 21 9 Qui ædificat domum suam impendiis alienis, quasi qui colligit lapides suos in hieme. +Sirach Sir 26 21 10 Stupa collecta synagoga peccantium, et consummatio illorum flamma ignis. +Sirach Sir 26 21 11 Via peccatorum complanata lapidibus : et in fine illorum inferi, et tenebræ, et pœnæ. +Sirach Sir 26 21 12 Qui custodit justitiam, continebit sensum ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 21 13 Consummatio timoris Dei, sapientia et sensus. +Sirach Sir 26 21 14 Non erudietur qui non est sapiens in bono. +Sirach Sir 26 21 15 Est autem sapientia quæ abundat in malo, et non est sensus ubi est amaritudo. +Sirach Sir 26 21 16 Scientia sapientis tamquam inundatio abundabit, et consilium illius sicut fons vitæ permanet. +Sirach Sir 26 21 17 Cor fatui quasi vas confractum, et omnem sapientiam non tenebit. +Sirach Sir 26 21 18 Verbum sapiens quodcumque audierit scius, laudabit, et ad se adjiciet : audivit luxuriosus, et displicebit illi, et projiciet illud post dorsum suum. +Sirach Sir 26 21 19 Narratio fatui quasi sarcina in via : nam in labiis sensati invenietur gratia. +Sirach Sir 26 21 20 Os prudentis quæritur in ecclesia, et verba illius cogitabunt in cordibus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 21 21 Tamquam domus exterminata, sic fatuo sapientia : et scientia insensati inenarrabilia verba. +Sirach Sir 26 21 22 Compedes in pedibus, stulto doctrina : et quasi vincula manuum super manum dextram. +Sirach Sir 26 21 23 Fatuus in risu exaltat vocem suam : vir autem sapiens vix tacite ridebit. +Sirach Sir 26 21 24 Ornamentum aureum prudenti doctrina, et quasi brachiale in brachio dextro. +Sirach Sir 26 21 25 Pes fatui facilis in domum proximi : et homo peritus confundetur a persona potentis. +Sirach Sir 26 21 26 Stultus a fenestra respiciet in domum : vir autem eruditus foris stabit. +Sirach Sir 26 21 27 Stultitia hominis auscultare per ostium : et prudens gravabitur contumelia. +Sirach Sir 26 21 28 Labia imprudentium stulta narrabunt ; verba autem prudentium statera ponderabuntur. +Sirach Sir 26 21 29 In ore fatuorum cor illorum, et in corde sapientium os illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 21 30 Dum maledicit impius diabolum, maledicit ipse animam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 21 31 Susurro coinquinabit animam suam, et in omnibus odietur, et qui cum eo manserit odiosus erit : tacitus et sensatus honorabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 22 1 In lapide luteo lapidatus est piger : et omnes loquentur super aspernationem illius. +Sirach Sir 26 22 2 De stercore boum lapidatus est piger : et omnis qui tetigerit eum excutiet manus. +Sirach Sir 26 22 3 Confusio patris est de filio indisciplinato : filia autem in deminoratione fiet. +Sirach Sir 26 22 4 Filia prudens hæreditas viro suo : nam quæ confundit, in contumeliam fit genitoris. +Sirach Sir 26 22 5 Patrem et virum confundit audax, et ab impiis non minorabitur : ab utrisque autem inhonorabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 22 6 Musica in luctu importuna narratio : flagella et doctrina in omni tempore sapientia. +Sirach Sir 26 22 7 Qui docet fatuum, quasi qui conglutinat testam. +Sirach Sir 26 22 8 Qui narrat verbum non audienti, quasi qui excitat dormientem de gravi somno. +Sirach Sir 26 22 9 Cum dormiente loquitur qui enarrat stulto sapientiam : et in fine narrationis dicit : Quis est hic ? +Sirach Sir 26 22 10 Supra mortuum plora, defecit enim lux ejus : et supra fatuum plora, defecit enim sensus. +Sirach Sir 26 22 11 Modicum plora super mortuum, quoniam requievit : +Sirach Sir 26 22 12 nequissimi enim nequissima vita super mortem fatui. +Sirach Sir 26 22 13 Luctus mortui septem dies : fatui autem et impii omnes dies vitæ illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 22 14 Cum stulto ne multum loquaris, et cum insensato ne abieris. +Sirach Sir 26 22 15 Serva te ab illo, ut non molestiam habeas, et non coinquinaberis peccato illius. +Sirach Sir 26 22 16 Deflecte ab illo, et invenies requiem, et non acediaberis in stultitia illius. +Sirach Sir 26 22 17 Super plumbum quid gravabitur ? et quod illi aliud nomen quam fatuus ? +Sirach Sir 26 22 18 Arenam, et salem, et massam ferri facilius est ferre quam hominem imprudentem, et fatuum, et impium. +Sirach Sir 26 22 19 Loramentum ligneum colligatum in fundamento ædificii non dissolvetur, sic et cor confirmatum in cogitatione consilii. +Sirach Sir 26 22 20 Cogitatus sensati in omni tempore metu non depravabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 22 21 Sicut pali in excelsis, et cæmenta sine impensa posita, contra faciem venti non permanebunt : +Sirach Sir 26 22 22 sic et cor timidum in cogitatione stulti contra impetum timoris non resistet. +Sirach Sir 26 22 23 Sicut cor trepidum in cogitatione fatui omni tempore non metuet, sic et qui in præceptis Dei permanet semper. +Sirach Sir 26 22 24 Pungens oculum deducit lacrimas, et qui pungit cor profert sensum. +Sirach Sir 26 22 25 Mittens lapidem in volatilia, dejiciet illa : sic et qui conviciatur amico, dissolvit amicitiam. +Sirach Sir 26 22 26 Ad amicum etsi produxeris gladium, non desperes : est enim regressus. Ad amicum +Sirach Sir 26 22 27 si aperueris os triste, non timeas : est enim concordatio : excepto convitio, et improperio, et superbia, et mysterii revelatione, et plaga dolosa : in his omnibus effugiet amicus. +Sirach Sir 26 22 28 Fidem posside cum amico in paupertate illius, ut et in bonis illius læteris. +Sirach Sir 26 22 29 In tempore tribulationis illius permane illi fidelis, ut et in hæreditate illius cohæres sis. +Sirach Sir 26 22 30 Ante ignem camini vapor et fumus ignis inaltatur : sic et ante sanguinem maledicta, et contumeliæ, et minæ. +Sirach Sir 26 22 31 Amicum salutare non confundar, a facie illius non me abscondam : et si mala mihi evenerint per illum, sustinebo. +Sirach Sir 26 22 32 Omnis qui audiet cavebit se ab eo. +Sirach Sir 26 22 33 Quis dabit ori meo custodiam, et super labia mea signaculum certum, ut non cadam ab ipsis, et lingua mea perdat me ? +Sirach Sir 26 23 1 Domine, pater et dominator vitæ meæ, ne derelinquas me in consilio eorum, nec sinas me cadere in illis. +Sirach Sir 26 23 2 Quis superponet in cogitatu meo flagella, et in corde meo doctrinam sapientiæ, ut ignorationibus eorum non parcant mihi, et non appareant delicta eorum, +Sirach Sir 26 23 3 et ne adincrescant ignorantiæ meæ, et multiplicentur delicta mea, et peccata mea abundent, et incidam in conspectu adversariorum meorum, et gaudeat super me inimicus meus ? +Sirach Sir 26 23 4 Domine, pater et Deus vitæ meæ, ne derelinquas me in cogitatu illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 23 5 Extollentiam oculorum meorum ne dederis mihi, et omne desiderium averte a me. +Sirach Sir 26 23 6 Aufer a me ventris concupiscentias, et concubitus concupiscentiæ ne apprehendant me, et animæ irreverenti et infrunitæ ne tradas me. +Sirach Sir 26 23 7 Doctrinam oris audite, filii : et qui custodierit illam non periet labiis, nec scandalizabitur in operibus nequissimis. +Sirach Sir 26 23 8 In vanitate sua apprehenditur peccator : et superbus et maledicus scandalizabitur in illis. +Sirach Sir 26 23 9 Jurationi non assuescat os tuum : multi enim casus in illa. +Sirach Sir 26 23 10 Nominatio vero Dei non sit assidua in ore tuo, et nominibus sanctorum non admiscearis, quoniam non erit immunis ab eis. +Sirach Sir 26 23 11 Sicut enim servus interrogatus assidue a livore non minuitur, sic omnis jurans et nominans in toto a peccato non purgabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 23 12 Vir multum jurans implebitur iniquitate, et non discedet a domo illius plaga. +Sirach Sir 26 23 13 Et si frustraverit, delictum illius super ipsum erit : et si dissimulaverit, delinquit dupliciter : +Sirach Sir 26 23 14 et si in vacuum juraverit, non justificabitur : replebitur enim retributione domus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 23 15 Est et alia loquela contraria morti : non inveniatur in hæreditate Jacob. +Sirach Sir 26 23 16 Etenim a misericordibus omnia hæc auferentur, et in delictis non volutabuntur. +Sirach Sir 26 23 17 Indisciplinatæ loquelæ non assuescat os tuum : est enim in illa verbum peccati. +Sirach Sir 26 23 18 Memento patris et matris tuæ : in medio enim magnatorum consistis : +Sirach Sir 26 23 19 ne forte obliviscatur te Deus in conspectu illorum, et assiduitate tua infatuatus, improperium patiaris, et maluisses non nasci, et diem nativitatis tuæ maledicas. +Sirach Sir 26 23 20 Homo assuetus in verbis improperii in omnibus diebus suis non erudietur. +Sirach Sir 26 23 21 Duo genera abundant in peccatis, et tertium adducit iram et perditionem. +Sirach Sir 26 23 22 Anima calida quasi ignis ardens, non extinguetur donec aliquid glutiat : +Sirach Sir 26 23 23 et homo nequam in ore carnis suæ non desinet donec incendat ignem. +Sirach Sir 26 23 24 Homini fornicario omnis panis dulcis : non fatigabitur transgrediens usque ad finem. +Sirach Sir 26 23 25 Omnis homo qui transgreditur lectum suum, contemnens in animam suam, et dicens : Quis me videt ? +Sirach Sir 26 23 26 Tenebræ circumdant me, et parietes cooperiunt me, et nemo circumspicit me : quem vereor ? delictorum meorum non memorabitur Altissimus. +Sirach Sir 26 23 27 Et non intelligit quoniam omnia videt oculus illius, quoniam expellit a se timorem Dei hujusmodi hominis timor, et oculi hominum timentes illum : +Sirach Sir 26 23 28 et non cognovit quoniam oculi Domini multo plus lucidiores sunt super solem, circumspicientes omnes vias hominum, et profundum abyssi, et hominum corda, intuentes in absconditas partes. +Sirach Sir 26 23 29 Domino enim Deo antequam crearentur omnia sunt agnita : sic et post perfectum respicit omnia. +Sirach Sir 26 23 30 Hic in plateis civitatis vindicabitur, et quasi pullus equinus fugabitur, et ubi non speravit apprehendetur. +Sirach Sir 26 23 31 Et erit dedecus omnibus, eo quod non intellexerit timorem Domini. +Sirach Sir 26 23 32 Sic et mulier omnis relinquens virum suum, et statuens hæreditatem ex alieno matrimonio : +Sirach Sir 26 23 33 primo enim in lege Altissimi incredibilis fuit : secundo in virum suum deliquit : tertio in adulterio fornicata est, et ex alio viro filios statuit sibi. +Sirach Sir 26 23 34 Hæc in ecclesiam adducetur, et in filios ejus respicietur : +Sirach Sir 26 23 35 non tradent filii ejus radices, et rami ejus non dabunt fructum : +Sirach Sir 26 23 36 derelinquet in maledictum memoriam ejus, et dedecus illius non delebitur. +Sirach Sir 26 23 37 Et agnoscent qui derelicti sunt, quoniam nihil melius est quam timor Dei, et nihil dulcius quam respicere in mandatis Domini. +Sirach Sir 26 23 38 Gloria magna est sequi Dominum : longitudo enim dierum assumetur ab eo. +Sirach Sir 26 24 1 Sapientia laudabit animam suam, et in Deo honorabitur, et in medio populi sui gloriabitur, +Sirach Sir 26 24 2 et in ecclesiis Altissimi aperiet os suum, et in conspectu virtutis illius gloriabitur, +Sirach Sir 26 24 3 et in medio populi sui exaltabitur, et in plenitudine sancta admirabitur, +Sirach Sir 26 24 4 et in multitudine electorum habebit laudem, et inter benedictos benedicetur, dicens : +Sirach Sir 26 24 5 Ego ex ore Altissimi prodivi, primogenita ante omnem creaturam. +Sirach Sir 26 24 6 Ego feci in cælis ut oriretur lumen indeficiens, et sicut nebula texi omnem terram. +Sirach Sir 26 24 7 Ego in altissimis habitavi, et thronus meus in columna nubis. +Sirach Sir 26 24 8 Gyrum cæli circuivi sola, et profundum abyssi penetravi : in fluctibus maris ambulavi. +Sirach Sir 26 24 9 Et in omni terra steti : et in omni populo, +Sirach Sir 26 24 10 et in omni gente primatum habui : +Sirach Sir 26 24 11 et omnium excellentium et humilium corda virtute calcavi. Et in his omnibus requiem quæsivi, et in hæreditate Domini morabor. +Sirach Sir 26 24 12 Tunc præcepit, et dixit mihi Creator omnium : et qui creavit me, requievit in tabernaculo meo. +Sirach Sir 26 24 13 Et dixit mihi : In Jacob inhabita, et in Israël hæreditare, et in electis meis mitte radices. +Sirach Sir 26 24 14 Ab initio et ante sæcula creata sum, et usque ad futurum sæculum non desinam : et in habitatione sancta coram ipso ministravi. +Sirach Sir 26 24 15 Et sic in Sion firmata sum, et in civitate sanctificata similiter requievi, et in Jerusalem potestas mea. +Sirach Sir 26 24 16 Et radicavi in populo honorificato, et in parte Dei mei hæreditas illius, et in plenitudine sanctorum detentio mea. +Sirach Sir 26 24 17 Quasi cedrus exaltata sum in Libano, et quasi cypressus in monte Sion : +Sirach Sir 26 24 18 quasi palma exaltata sum in Cades, et quasi plantatio rosæ in Jericho : +Sirach Sir 26 24 19 quasi oliva speciosa in campis, et quasi platanus exaltata sum juxta aquam in plateis. +Sirach Sir 26 24 20 Sicut cinnamomum et balsamum aromatizans odorem dedi ; quasi myrrha electa dedi suavitatem odoris : +Sirach Sir 26 24 21 et quasi storax, et galbanus, et ungula, et gutta, et quasi Libanus non incisus vaporavi habitationem meam, et quasi balsamum non mistum odor meus. +Sirach Sir 26 24 22 Ego quasi terebinthus extendi ramos meos, et rami mei honoris et gratiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 24 23 Ego quasi vitis fructificavi suavitatem odoris : et flores mei fructus honoris et honestatis. +Sirach Sir 26 24 24 Ego mater pulchræ dilectionis, et timoris, et agnitionis, et sanctæ spei. +Sirach Sir 26 24 25 In me gratia omnis viæ et veritatis : in me omnis spes vitæ et virtutis. +Sirach Sir 26 24 26 Transite ad me, omnes qui concupiscitis me, et a generationibus meis implemini : +Sirach Sir 26 24 27 spiritus enim meus super mel dulcis, et hæreditas mea super mel et favum. +Sirach Sir 26 24 28 Memoria mea in generationes sæculorum. +Sirach Sir 26 24 29 Qui edunt me, adhuc esurient, et qui bibunt me, adhuc sitient. +Sirach Sir 26 24 30 Qui audit me non confundetur, et qui operantur in me non peccabunt : +Sirach Sir 26 24 31 qui elucidant me, vitam æternam habebunt. +Sirach Sir 26 24 32 Hæc omnia liber vitæ, et testamentum Altissimi, et agnitio veritatis. +Sirach Sir 26 24 33 Legem mandavit Moyses in præceptis justitiarum, et hæreditatem domui Jacob, et Israël promissiones. +Sirach Sir 26 24 34 Posuit David, puero suo, excitare regem ex ipso fortissimum, et in throno honoris sedentem in sempiternum. +Sirach Sir 26 24 35 Qui implet quasi Phison sapientiam, et sicut Tigris in diebus novorum : +Sirach Sir 26 24 36 qui adimplet quasi Euphrates sensum, qui multiplicat quasi Jordanis in tempore messis : +Sirach Sir 26 24 37 qui mittit disciplinam sicut lucem, et assistens quasi Gehon in die vindemiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 24 38 Qui perficit primus scire ipsam, et infirmior non investigabit eam. +Sirach Sir 26 24 39 A mari enim abundavit cogitatio ejus, et consilium illius ab abysso magna. +Sirach Sir 26 24 40 Ego sapientia effudi flumina : +Sirach Sir 26 24 41 ego quasi trames aquæ immensæ de fluvio : ego quasi fluvii dioryx, et sicut aquæductus exivi de paradiso. +Sirach Sir 26 24 42 Dixi : Rigabo hortum meum plantationum, et inebriabo prati mei fructum. +Sirach Sir 26 24 43 Et ecce factus est mihi trames abundans, et fluvius meus appropinquavit ad mare : +Sirach Sir 26 24 44 quoniam doctrinam quasi antelucanum illumino omnibus, et enarrabo illam usque ad longinquum. +Sirach Sir 26 24 45 Penetrabo omnes inferiores partes terræ, et inspiciam omnes dormientes, et illuminabo omnes sperantes in Domino. +Sirach Sir 26 24 46 Adhuc doctrinam quasi prophetiam effundam, et relinquam illam quærentibus sapientiam, et non desinam in progenies illorum usque in ævum sanctum. +Sirach Sir 26 24 47 Videte quoniam non soli mihi laboravi, sed omnibus exquirentibus veritatem. +Sirach Sir 26 25 1 In tribus placitum est spiritui meo, quæ sunt probata coram Deo et hominibus : +Sirach Sir 26 25 2 concordia fratrum, et amor proximorum, et vir et mulier bene sibi consentientes. +Sirach Sir 26 25 3 Tres species odivit anima mea, et aggravor valde animæ illorum : +Sirach Sir 26 25 4 pauperem superbum, divitem mendacem, senem fatuum et insensatum. +Sirach Sir 26 25 5 Quæ in juventute tua non congregasti, quomodo in senectute tua invenies ? +Sirach Sir 26 25 6 Quam speciosum canitiei judicium, et presbyteris cognoscere consilium ! +Sirach Sir 26 25 7 Quam speciosa veteranis sapientia, et gloriosus intellectus et consilium ! +Sirach Sir 26 25 8 Corona senum multa peritia, et gloria illorum timor Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 25 9 Novem insuspicabilia cordis magnificavi : et decimum dicam in lingua hominibus : +Sirach Sir 26 25 10 homo qui jucundatur in filiis, vivens et videns subversionem inimicorum suorum. +Sirach Sir 26 25 11 Beatus qui habitat cum muliere sensata, et qui lingua sua non est lapsus, et qui non servivit indignis se. +Sirach Sir 26 25 12 Beatus qui invenit amicum verum, et qui enarrat justitiam auri audienti. +Sirach Sir 26 25 13 Quam magnus qui invenit sapientiam et scientiam ! sed non est super timentem Dominum. +Sirach Sir 26 25 14 Timor Dei super omnia se superposuit. +Sirach Sir 26 25 15 Beatus homo cui donatum est habere timorem Dei : qui tenet illum, cui assimilabitur ? +Sirach Sir 26 25 16 Timor Dei initium dilectionis ejus : fidei autem initium agglutinandum est ei. +Sirach Sir 26 25 17 Omnis plaga tristitia cordis est, et omnis malitia nequitia mulieris. +Sirach Sir 26 25 18 Et omnem plagam, et non plagam videbit cordis : +Sirach Sir 26 25 19 et omnem nequitiam, et non nequitiam mulieris : +Sirach Sir 26 25 20 et omnem obductum, et non obductum odientium : +Sirach Sir 26 25 21 et omnem vindictam, et non vindictam inimicorum. +Sirach Sir 26 25 22 Non est caput nequius super caput colubri, +Sirach Sir 26 25 23 et non est ira super iram mulieris. Commorari leoni et draconi placebit, quam habitare cum muliere nequam. +Sirach Sir 26 25 24 Nequitia mulieris immutat faciem ejus : et obcæcat vultum suum tamquam ursus, et quasi saccum ostendit. In medio proximorum ejus +Sirach Sir 26 25 25 ingemuit vir ejus, et audiens suspiravit modicum. +Sirach Sir 26 25 26 Brevis omnis malitia super malitiam mulieris : sors peccatorum cadat super illam. +Sirach Sir 26 25 27 Sicut ascensus arenosus in pedibus veterani, sic mulier linguata homini quieto. +Sirach Sir 26 25 28 Ne respicias in mulieris speciem, et non concupiscas mulierem in specie. +Sirach Sir 26 25 29 Mulieris ira, et irreverentia, et confusio magna. +Sirach Sir 26 25 30 Mulier si primatum habeat, contraria est viro suo. +Sirach Sir 26 25 31 Cor humile, et facies tristis, et plaga cordis, mulier nequam. +Sirach Sir 26 25 32 Manus debiles et genua dissoluta, mulier quæ non beatificat virum suum. +Sirach Sir 26 25 33 A muliere initium factum est peccati, et per illam omnes morimur. +Sirach Sir 26 25 34 Non des aquæ tuæ exitum, nec modicum : nec mulieri nequam veniam prodeundi. +Sirach Sir 26 25 35 Si non ambulaverit ad manum tuam, confundet te in conspectu inimicorum. +Sirach Sir 26 25 36 A carnibus tuis abscinde illam, ne semper te abutatur. +Sirach Sir 26 26 1 Mulieris bonæ beatus vir : numerus enim annorum illius duplex. +Sirach Sir 26 26 2 Mulier fortis oblectat virum suum, et annos vitæ illius in pace implebit. +Sirach Sir 26 26 3 Pars bona mulier bona, in parte timentium Deum dabitur viro pro factis bonis : +Sirach Sir 26 26 4 divitis autem et pauperis cor bonum, in omni tempore vultus illorum hilaris. +Sirach Sir 26 26 5 A tribus timuit cor meum, et in quarto facies mea metuit : +Sirach Sir 26 26 6 delaturam civitatis, et collectionem populi : +Sirach Sir 26 26 7 calumniam mendacem super mortem omnia gravia : +Sirach Sir 26 26 8 dolor cordis et luctus, mulier zelotypa. +Sirach Sir 26 26 9 In muliere zelotypa flagellum linguæ, omnibus communicans. +Sirach Sir 26 26 10 Sicut boum jugum quod movetur, ita et mulier nequam : qui tenet illam quasi qui apprehendit scorpionem. +Sirach Sir 26 26 11 Mulier ebriosa ira magna, et contumelia : et turpitudo illius non tegetur. +Sirach Sir 26 26 12 Fornicatio mulieris in extollentia oculorum, et in palpebris illius agnoscetur. +Sirach Sir 26 26 13 In filia non avertente se, firma custodiam, ne inventa occasione utatur se. +Sirach Sir 26 26 14 Ab omni irreverentia oculorum ejus cave, et ne mireris si te neglexerit. +Sirach Sir 26 26 15 Sicut viator sitiens ad fontem os aperiet, et ab omni aqua proxima bibet, et contra omnem palum sedebit, et contra omnem sagittam aperiet pharetram donec deficiat. +Sirach Sir 26 26 16 Gratia mulieris sedulæ delectabit virum suum, et ossa illius impinguabit. +Sirach Sir 26 26 17 Disciplina illius datum Dei est. +Sirach Sir 26 26 18 Mulier sensata et tacita, non est immutatio eruditæ animæ. +Sirach Sir 26 26 19 Gratia super gratiam mulier sancta et pudorata. +Sirach Sir 26 26 20 Omnis autem ponderatio non est digna continentis animæ. +Sirach Sir 26 26 21 Sicut sol oriens mundo in altissimis Dei, sic mulieris bonæ species in ornamentum domus ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 26 22 Lucerna splendens super candelabrum sanctum, et species faciei super ætatem stabilem. +Sirach Sir 26 26 23 Columnæ aureæ super bases argenteas, et pedes firmi super plantas stabilis mulieris. +Sirach Sir 26 26 24 Fundamenta æterna supra petram solidam, et mandata Dei in corde mulieris sanctæ. +Sirach Sir 26 26 25 In duobus contristatum est cor meum, et in tertio iracundia mihi advenit : +Sirach Sir 26 26 26 vir bellator deficiens per inopiam ; et vir sensatus contemptus ; +Sirach Sir 26 26 27 et qui transgreditur a justitia ad peccatum : Deus paravit eum ad rhomphæam. +Sirach Sir 26 26 28 Duæ species difficiles et periculosæ mihi apparuerunt : difficile exuitur negotians a negligentia, et non justificabitur caupo a peccatis labiorum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 1 Propter inopiam multi deliquerunt : et qui quærit locupletari avertit oculum suum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 2 Sicut in medio compaginis lapidum palus figitur, sic et inter medium venditionis et emptionis angustiabitur peccatum : +Sirach Sir 26 27 3 conteretur cum delinquente delictum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 4 Si non in timore Domini tenueris te instanter, cito subvertetur domus tua. +Sirach Sir 26 27 5 Sicut in percussura cribri remanebit pulvis, sic aporia hominis in cogitatu illius. +Sirach Sir 26 27 6 Vasa figuli probat fornax, et homines justos tentatio tribulationis. +Sirach Sir 26 27 7 Sicut rusticatio de ligno ostendit fructum illius, sic verbum ex cogitatu cordis hominis. +Sirach Sir 26 27 8 Ante sermonem non laudes virum : hæc enim tentatio est hominum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 9 Si sequaris justitiam, apprehendes illam, et indues quasi poderem honoris : et inhabitabis cum ea, et proteget te in sempiternum, et in die agnitionis invenies firmamentum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 10 Volatilia ad sibi similia conveniunt : et veritas ad eos qui operantur illam revertetur. +Sirach Sir 26 27 11 Leo venationi insidiatur semper : sic peccata operantibus iniquitates. +Sirach Sir 26 27 12 Homo sanctus in sapientia manet sicut sol : nam stultus sicut luna mutatur. +Sirach Sir 26 27 13 In medio insensatorum serva verbum tempori : in medio autem cogitantium assiduus esto. +Sirach Sir 26 27 14 Narratio peccantium odiosa, et risus illorum in deliciis peccati. +Sirach Sir 26 27 15 Loquela multum jurans horripilationem capiti statuet, et irreverentia ipsius obturatio aurium. +Sirach Sir 26 27 16 Effusio sanguinis in rixa superborum, et maledictio illorum auditus gravis. +Sirach Sir 26 27 17 Qui denudat arcana amici fidem perdit, et non inveniet amicum ad animum suum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 18 Dilige proximum, et conjungere fide cum illo. +Sirach Sir 26 27 19 Quod si denudaveris absconsa illius, non persequeris post eum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 20 Sicut enim homo qui perdit amicum suum, sic et qui perdit amicitiam proximi sui. +Sirach Sir 26 27 21 Et sicut qui dimittit avem de manu sua, sic dereliquisti proximum tuum, et non eum capies. +Sirach Sir 26 27 22 Non illum sequaris, quoniam longe abest : effugit enim quasi caprea de laqueo, quoniam vulnerata est anima ejus : +Sirach Sir 26 27 23 ultra eum non poteris colligare. Et maledicti est concordatio : +Sirach Sir 26 27 24 denudare autem amici mysteria, desperatio est animæ infelicis. +Sirach Sir 26 27 25 Annuens oculo fabricat iniqua, et nemo eum abjiciet. +Sirach Sir 26 27 26 In conspectu oculorum tuorum condulcabit os suum, et super sermones tuos admirabitur : novissime autem pervertet os suum, et in verbis tuis dabit scandalum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 27 Multa odivi, et non coæquavi ei, et Dominus odiet illum. +Sirach Sir 26 27 28 Qui in altum mittit lapidem, super caput ejus cadet : et plaga dolosa dolosi dividet vulnera. +Sirach Sir 26 27 29 Et qui foveam fodit incidet in eam : et qui statuit lapidem proximo offendet in eo : et qui laqueum alii ponit, peribit in illo. +Sirach Sir 26 27 30 Facienti nequissimum consilium, super ipsum devolvetur, et non agnoscet unde adveniat illi. +Sirach Sir 26 27 31 Illusio et improperium superborum, et vindicta sicut leo insidiabitur illi. +Sirach Sir 26 27 32 Laqueo peribunt qui oblectantur casu justorum, dolor autem consumet illos antequam moriantur. +Sirach Sir 26 27 33 Ira et furor utraque execrabilia sunt, et vir peccator continens erit illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 28 1 Qui vindicari vult, a Domino inveniet vindictam, et peccata illius servans servabit. +Sirach Sir 26 28 2 Relinque proximo tuo nocenti te, et tunc deprecanti tibi peccata solventur. +Sirach Sir 26 28 3 Homo homini reservat iram, et a Deo quærit medelam : +Sirach Sir 26 28 4 in hominem similem sibi non habet misericordiam, et de peccatis suis deprecatur. +Sirach Sir 26 28 5 Ipse cum caro sit reservat iram, et propitiationem petit a Deo : quis exorabit pro delictis illius ? +Sirach Sir 26 28 6 Memento novissimorum, et desine inimicari : +Sirach Sir 26 28 7 tabitudo enim et mors imminent in mandatis ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 28 8 Memorare timorem Dei, et non irascaris proximo. +Sirach Sir 26 28 9 Memorare testamentum Altissimi, et despice ignorantiam proximi. +Sirach Sir 26 28 10 Abstine te a lite, et minues peccata. +Sirach Sir 26 28 11 Homo enim iracundus incendit litem, et vir peccator turbabit amicos, et in medio pacem habentium immittet inimicitiam. +Sirach Sir 26 28 12 Secundum enim ligna silvæ sic ignis exardescit : et secundum virtutem hominis sic iracundia illius erit, et secundum substantiam suam exaltabit iram suam. +Sirach Sir 26 28 13 Certamen festinatum incendit ignem, et lis festinans effundit sanguinem : et lingua testificans adducit mortem. +Sirach Sir 26 28 14 Si sufflaveris in scintillam, quasi ignis exardebit : et si exspueris super illam, extinguetur : utraque ex ore proficiscuntur. +Sirach Sir 26 28 15 Susurro et bilinguis maledictus, multos enim turbabit pacem habentes. +Sirach Sir 26 28 16 Lingua tertia multos commovit, et dispersit illos de gente in gentem. +Sirach Sir 26 28 17 Civitates muratas divitum destruxit, et domus magnatorum effodit. +Sirach Sir 26 28 18 Virtutes populorum concidit, et gentes fortes dissolvit. +Sirach Sir 26 28 19 Lingua tertia mulieres viratas ejecit, et privavit illas laboribus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 28 20 Qui respicit illam non habebit requiem, nec habebit amicum in quo requiescat. +Sirach Sir 26 28 21 Flagelli plaga livorem facit : plaga autem linguæ comminuet ossa. +Sirach Sir 26 28 22 Multi ceciderunt in ore gladii : sed non sic quasi qui interierunt per linguam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 28 23 Beatus qui tectus est a lingua nequam, qui in iracundiam illius non transivit, et qui non attraxit jugum illius, et in vinculis ejus non est ligatus : +Sirach Sir 26 28 24 jugum enim illius jugum ferreum est, et vinculum illius vinculum æreum est ; +Sirach Sir 26 28 25 mors illius mors nequissima : et utilis potius infernus quam illa. +Sirach Sir 26 28 26 Perseverantia illius non permanebit, sed obtinebit vias injustorum, et in flamma sua non comburet justos. +Sirach Sir 26 28 27 Qui relinquunt Deum incident in illam, et exardebit in illis, et non extinguetur, et immittetur in illos quasi leo, et quasi pardus lædet illos. +Sirach Sir 26 28 28 Sepi aures tuas spinis : linguam nequam noli audire : et ori tuo facito ostia et seras. +Sirach Sir 26 28 29 Aurum tuum et argentum tuum confla, et verbis tuis facito stateram, et frenos ori tuo rectos : +Sirach Sir 26 28 30 et attende ne forte labaris in lingua, et cadas in conspectu inimicorum insidiantium tibi, et sit casus tuus insanabilis in mortem. +Sirach Sir 26 29 1 Qui facit misericordiam fœneratur proximo suo : et qui prævalet manu mandata servat. +Sirach Sir 26 29 2 Fœnerare proximo tuo in tempore necessitatis illius : et iterum redde proximo in tempore suo. +Sirach Sir 26 29 3 Confirma verbum, et fideliter age cum illo : et in omni tempore invenies quod tibi necessarium est. +Sirach Sir 26 29 4 Multi quasi inventionem æstimaverunt fœnus, et præstiterunt molestiam his qui se adjuverunt. +Sirach Sir 26 29 5 Donec accipiant, osculantur manus dantis, et in promissionibus humiliant vocem suam : +Sirach Sir 26 29 6 et in tempore redditionis postulabit tempus, et loquetur verba tædii et murmurationum, et tempus causabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 29 7 Si autem potuerit reddere, adversabitur : solidi vix reddet dimidium, et computabit illud quasi inventionem : +Sirach Sir 26 29 8 sin autem, fraudabit illum pecunia sua, et possidebit illum inimicum gratis : +Sirach Sir 26 29 9 et convitia et maledicta reddet illi, et pro honore et beneficio reddet illi contumeliam. +Sirach Sir 26 29 10 Multi non causa nequitiæ non fœnerati sunt, sed fraudari gratis timuerunt. +Sirach Sir 26 29 11 Verumtamen super humilem animo fortior esto, et pro eleemosyna non trahas illum. +Sirach Sir 26 29 12 Propter mandatum assume pauperem, et propter inopiam ejus ne dimittas eum vacuum. +Sirach Sir 26 29 13 Perde pecuniam propter fratrem et amicum tuum, et non abscondas illam sub lapide in perditionem. +Sirach Sir 26 29 14 Pone thesaurum tuum in præceptis Altissimi, et proderit tibi magis quam aurum. +Sirach Sir 26 29 15 Conclude eleemosynam in corde pauperis, et hæc pro te exorabit ab omni malo. +Sirach Sir 26 29 16 Super scutum potentis +Sirach Sir 26 29 17 et super lanceam +Sirach Sir 26 29 18 adversus inimicum tuum pugnabit. +Sirach Sir 26 29 19 Vir bonus fidem facit pro proximo suo : et qui perdiderit confusionem derelinquet sibi. +Sirach Sir 26 29 20 Gratiam fidejussoris ne obliviscaris : dedit enim pro te animam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 29 21 Repromissorem fugit peccator et immundus. +Sirach Sir 26 29 22 Bona repromissoris sibi ascribit peccator : et ingratus sensu derelinquet liberantem se. +Sirach Sir 26 29 23 Vir repromittit de proximo suo : et cum perdiderit reverentiam, derelinquetur ab eo. +Sirach Sir 26 29 24 Repromissio nequissima multos perdidit dirigentes, et commovit illos quasi fluctus maris. +Sirach Sir 26 29 25 Viros potentes gyrans migrare fecit, et vagati sunt in gentibus alienis. +Sirach Sir 26 29 26 Peccator transgrediens mandatum Domini incidet in promissionem nequam : et qui conatur multa agere incidet in judicium. +Sirach Sir 26 29 27 Recupera proximum secundum virtutem tuam, et attende tibi ne incidas. +Sirach Sir 26 29 28 Initium vitæ hominis, aqua et panis, et vestimentum, et domus protegens turpitudinem. +Sirach Sir 26 29 29 Melior est victus pauperis sub tegmine asserum quam epulæ splendidæ in peregre sine domicilio. +Sirach Sir 26 29 30 Minimum pro magno placeat tibi, et improperium peregrinationis non audies. +Sirach Sir 26 29 31 Vita nequam hospitandi de domo in domum : et ubi hospitabitur non fiducialiter aget, nec aperiet os. +Sirach Sir 26 29 32 Hospitabitur, et pascet, et potabit ingratos, et ad hæc amara audiet : +Sirach Sir 26 29 33 transi, hospes, et orna mensam, et quæ in manu habes ciba ceteros. +Sirach Sir 26 29 34 Exi a facie honoris amicorum meorum : necessitudine domus meæ hospitio mihi factus est frater. +Sirach Sir 26 29 35 Gravia hæc homini habenti sensum : correptio domus, et improperium fœneratoris. +Sirach Sir 26 30 1 Qui diligit filium suum assiduat illi flagella, ut lætetur in novissimo suo, et non palpet proximorum ostia. +Sirach Sir 26 30 2 Qui docet filium suum laudabitur in illo, et in medio domesticorum in illo gloriabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 30 3 Qui docet filium suum in zelum mittit inimicum, et in medio amicorum gloriabitur in illo. +Sirach Sir 26 30 4 Mortuus est pater ejus, et quasi non est mortuus : similem enim reliquit sibi post se. +Sirach Sir 26 30 5 In vita sua vidit, et lætatus est in illo : in obitu suo non est contristatus, nec confusus est coram inimicis : +Sirach Sir 26 30 6 reliquit enim defensorem domus contra inimicos, et amicis reddentem gratiam. +Sirach Sir 26 30 7 Pro animabus filiorum colligabit vulnera sua, et super omnem vocem turbabuntur viscera ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 30 8 Equus indomitus evadit durus, et filius remissus evadet præceps. +Sirach Sir 26 30 9 Lacta filium, et paventem te faciet : lude cum eo, et contristabit te. +Sirach Sir 26 30 10 Non corrideas illi, ne doleas, et in novissimo obstupescent dentes tui. +Sirach Sir 26 30 11 Non des illi potestatem in juventute, et ne despicias cogitatus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 30 12 Curva cervicem ejus in juventute, et tunde latera ejus dum infans est, ne forte induret, et non credat tibi, et erit tibi dolor animæ. +Sirach Sir 26 30 13 Doce filium tuum, et operare in illo, ne in turpitudinem illius offendas. +Sirach Sir 26 30 14 Melior est pauper sanus, et fortis viribus, quam dives imbecillis et flagellatus malitia. +Sirach Sir 26 30 15 Salus animæ in sanctitate justitiæ melior est omni auro et argento : et corpus validum quam census immensus. +Sirach Sir 26 30 16 Non est census super censum salutis corporis, et non est oblectamentum super cordis gaudium. +Sirach Sir 26 30 17 Melior est mors quam vita amara, et requies æterna quam languor perseverans. +Sirach Sir 26 30 18 Bona abscondita in ore clauso, quasi appositiones epularum circumpositæ sepulchro. +Sirach Sir 26 30 19 Quid proderit libatio idolo ? nec enim manducabit, nec odorabit. +Sirach Sir 26 30 20 Sic qui effugatur a Domino, portans mercedes iniquitatis : +Sirach Sir 26 30 21 videns oculis et ingemiscens, sicut spado complectens virginem, et suspirans. +Sirach Sir 26 30 22 Tristitiam non des animæ tuæ, et non affligas temetipsum in consilio tuo. +Sirach Sir 26 30 23 Jucunditas cordis, hæc est vita hominis, et thesaurus sine defectione sanctitatis : et exsultatio viri est longævitas. +Sirach Sir 26 30 24 Miserere animæ tuæ placens Deo, et contine : congrega cor tuum in sanctitate ejus, et tristitiam longe repelle a te. +Sirach Sir 26 30 25 Multos enim occidit tristitia, et non est utilitas in illa. +Sirach Sir 26 30 26 Zelus et iracundia minuunt dies, et ante tempus senectam adducet cogitatus. +Sirach Sir 26 30 27 Splendidum cor et bonum in epulis est : epulæ enim illius diligenter fiunt. +Sirach Sir 26 31 1 Vigilia honestatis tabefaciet carnes, et cogitatus illius auferet somnum. +Sirach Sir 26 31 2 Cogitatus præscientiæ avertit sensum, et infirmitas gravis sobriam facit animam. +Sirach Sir 26 31 3 Laboravit dives in congregatione substantiæ, et in requie sua replebitur bonis suis. +Sirach Sir 26 31 4 Laboravit pauper in diminutione victus, et in fine inops fit. +Sirach Sir 26 31 5 Qui aurum diligit non justificabitur, et qui insequitur consumptionem replebitur ex ea. +Sirach Sir 26 31 6 Multi dati sunt in auri casus, et facta est in specie ipsius perditio illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 31 7 Lignum offensionis est aurum sacrificantium : væ illis qui sectantur illud ! et omnis imprudens deperiet in illo. +Sirach Sir 26 31 8 Beatus dives qui inventus est sine macula, et qui post aurum non abiit, nec speravit in pecunia et thesauris. +Sirach Sir 26 31 9 Quis est hic ? et laudabimus eum : fecit enim mirabilia in vita sua. +Sirach Sir 26 31 10 Qui probatus est in illo, et perfectus est, erit illi gloria æterna : qui potuit transgredi, et non est transgressus ; facere mala, et non fecit. +Sirach Sir 26 31 11 Ideo stabilita sunt bona illius in Domino, et eleemosynas illius enarrabit omnis ecclesia sanctorum. +Sirach Sir 26 31 12 Supra mensam magnam sedisti ? non aperias super illam faucem tuam prior. +Sirach Sir 26 31 13 Non dicas sic : Multa sunt, quæ super illam sunt. +Sirach Sir 26 31 14 Memento quoniam malus est oculus nequam. +Sirach Sir 26 31 15 Nequius oculo quid creatum est ? ideo ab omni facie sua lacrimabitur, cum viderit. +Sirach Sir 26 31 16 Ne extendas manum tuam prior, et invidia contaminatus erubescas. +Sirach Sir 26 31 17 Ne comprimaris in convivio. +Sirach Sir 26 31 18 Intellige quæ sunt proximi tui ex teipso. +Sirach Sir 26 31 19 Utere quasi homo frugi his quæ tibi apponuntur : ne, cum manducas multum, odio habearis. +Sirach Sir 26 31 20 Cessa prior causa disciplinæ : et noli nimius esse, ne forte offendas. +Sirach Sir 26 31 21 Et si in medio multorum sedisti, prior illis ne extendas manum tuam, nec prior poscas bibere. +Sirach Sir 26 31 22 Quam sufficiens est homini erudito vinum exiguum ! et in dormiendo non laborabis ab illo, et non senties dolorem. +Sirach Sir 26 31 23 Vigilia, cholera et tortura viro infrunito, +Sirach Sir 26 31 24 somnus sanitatis in homine parco : dormiet usque mane, et anima illius cum ipso delectabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 31 25 Et si coactus fueris in edendo multum, surge e medio, evome, et refrigerabit te, et non adduces corpori tuo infirmitatem. +Sirach Sir 26 31 26 Audi me, fili, et ne spernas me, et in novissimo invenies verba mea. +Sirach Sir 26 31 27 In omnibus operibus tuis esto velox, et omnis infirmitas non occurret tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 31 28 Splendidum in panibus benedicent labia multorum, et testimonium veritatis illius fidele. +Sirach Sir 26 31 29 Nequissimo in pane murmurabit civitas, et testimonium nequitiæ illius verum est. +Sirach Sir 26 31 30 Diligentes in vino noli provocare : multos enim exterminavit vinum. +Sirach Sir 26 31 31 Ignis probat ferrum durum : sic vinum corda superborum arguet in ebrietate potatum. +Sirach Sir 26 31 32 Æqua vita hominibus vinum in sobrietate : si bibas illud moderate, eris sobrius. +Sirach Sir 26 31 33 Quæ vita est ei qui minuitur vino ? +Sirach Sir 26 31 34 Quid defraudat vitam ? mors. +Sirach Sir 26 31 35 Vinum in jucunditatem creatum est, et non in ebrietatem ab initio. +Sirach Sir 26 31 36 Exsultatio animæ et cordis vinum moderate potatum. +Sirach Sir 26 31 37 Sanitas est animæ et corpori sobrius potus. +Sirach Sir 26 31 38 Vinum multum potatum irritationem, et iram, et ruinas multas facit. +Sirach Sir 26 31 39 Amaritudo animæ vinum multum potatum. +Sirach Sir 26 31 40 Ebrietatis animositas, imprudentis offensio, minorans virtutem, et faciens vulnera. +Sirach Sir 26 31 41 In convivio vini non arguas proximum, et non despicias eum in jucunditate illius. +Sirach Sir 26 31 42 Verba improperii non dicas illi, et non premas illum repetendo. +Sirach Sir 26 32 1 Rectorem te posuerunt ? noli extolli : esto in illis quasi unus ex ipsis. +Sirach Sir 26 32 2 Curam illorum habe, et sic conside, et omni cura tua explicita recumbe : +Sirach Sir 26 32 3 ut læteris propter illos, et ornamentum gratiæ accipias coronam, et dignationem consequaris corrogationis. +Sirach Sir 26 32 4 Loquere major natu : decet enim te +Sirach Sir 26 32 5 primum verbum diligenti scientia, et non impedias musicam. +Sirach Sir 26 32 6 Ubi auditus non est, non effundas sermonem, et importune noli extolli in sapientia tua. +Sirach Sir 26 32 7 Gemmula carbunculi in ornamento auri, et comparatio musicorum in convivio vini. +Sirach Sir 26 32 8 Sicut in fabricatione auri signum est smaragdi, sic numerus musicorum in jucundo et moderato vino. +Sirach Sir 26 32 9 Audi tacens, et pro reverentia accedet tibi bona gratia. +Sirach Sir 26 32 10 Adolescens, loquere in tua causa vix. +Sirach Sir 26 32 11 Si bis interrogatus fueris, habeat caput responsum tuum. +Sirach Sir 26 32 12 In multis esto quasi inscius, et audi tacens simul et quærens. +Sirach Sir 26 32 13 In medio magnatorum non præsumas : et ubi sunt senes non multum loquaris. +Sirach Sir 26 32 14 Ante grandinem præibit coruscatio : et ante verecundiam præibit gratia, et pro reverentia accedet tibi bona gratia. +Sirach Sir 26 32 15 Et hora surgendi non te trices : præcurre autem prior in domum tuam, et illic avocare, et illic lude, +Sirach Sir 26 32 16 et age conceptiones tuas, et non in delictis et verbo superbo : +Sirach Sir 26 32 17 et super his omnibus benedicito Dominum, qui fecit, et inebriantem te ab omnibus bonis suis. +Sirach Sir 26 32 18 Qui timet Dominum excipiet doctrinam ejus : et qui vigilaverint ad illum invenient benedictionem. +Sirach Sir 26 32 19 Qui quærit legem replebitur ab ea, et qui insidiose agit scandalizabitur in ea. +Sirach Sir 26 32 20 Qui timent Dominum invenient judicium justum, et justitias quasi lumen accendent. +Sirach Sir 26 32 21 Peccator homo vitabit correptionem, et secundum voluntatem suam inveniet comparationem. +Sirach Sir 26 32 22 Vir consilii non disperdet intelligentiam : alienus et superbus non pertimescet timorem : +Sirach Sir 26 32 23 etiam postquam fecit cum eo sine consilio, et suis insectationibus arguetur. +Sirach Sir 26 32 24 Fili, sine consilio nihil facias, et post factum non pœnitebis. +Sirach Sir 26 32 25 In via ruinæ non eas, et non offendes in lapides : nec credas te viæ laboriosæ, ne ponas animæ tuæ scandalum. +Sirach Sir 26 32 26 Et a filiis tuis cave, et a domesticis tuis attende. +Sirach Sir 26 32 27 In omni opere tuo crede ex fide animæ tuæ, hoc est enim conservatio mandatorum. +Sirach Sir 26 32 28 Qui credit Deo attendit mandatis : et qui confidit in illo non minorabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 33 1 Timenti Dominum non occurrent mala : sed in tentatione Deus illum conservabit, et liberabit a malis. Sapiens non odit mandata et justitias, +Sirach Sir 26 33 2 et non illidetur quasi in procella navis. +Sirach Sir 26 33 3 Homo sensatus credit legi Dei, et lex illi fidelis. +Sirach Sir 26 33 4 Qui interrogationem manifestat parabit verbum, et sic deprecatus exaudietur : et conservabit disciplinam, et tunc respondebit. +Sirach Sir 26 33 5 Præcordia fatui quasi rota carri, et quasi axis versatilis cogitatus illius. +Sirach Sir 26 33 6 Equus emissarius, sic et amicus subsannator : sub omni supra sedente hinnit. +Sirach Sir 26 33 7 Quare dies diem superat, et iterum lux lucem, et annus annum a sole ? +Sirach Sir 26 33 8 A Domini scientia separati sunt, facto sole, et præceptum custodiente. +Sirach Sir 26 33 9 Et immutavit tempora, et dies festos ipsorum, et in illis dies festos celebraverunt ad horam. +Sirach Sir 26 33 10 Ex ipsis exaltavit et magnificavit Deus, et ex ipsis posuit in numerum dierum : et omnes homines de solo et ex terra unde creatus est Adam. +Sirach Sir 26 33 11 In multitudine disciplinæ Dominus separavit eos, et immutavit vias eorum. +Sirach Sir 26 33 12 Ex ipsis benedixit et exaltavit, et ex ipsis sanctificavit, et ad se applicavit, et ex ipsis maledixit, et humiliavit, et convertit illos a separatione ipsorum. +Sirach Sir 26 33 13 Quasi lutum figuli in manu ipsius, plasmare illud et disponere. +Sirach Sir 26 33 14 Omnes viæ ejus secundum dispositionem ejus : sic homo in manu illius qui se fecit, et reddet illi secundum judicium suum. +Sirach Sir 26 33 15 Contra malum bonum est, et contra mortem vita : sic et contra virum justum peccator, et sic intuere in omnia opera Altissimi, duo et duo, et unum contra unum. +Sirach Sir 26 33 16 Et ego novissimus evigilavi, et quasi qui colligit acinos post vindemiatores. +Sirach Sir 26 33 17 In benedictione Dei et ipse speravi, et quasi qui vindemiat replevi torcular. +Sirach Sir 26 33 18 Respicite quoniam non mihi soli laboravi, sed omnibus exquirentibus disciplinam. +Sirach Sir 26 33 19 Audite me, magnates et omnes populi : et rectores ecclesiæ, auribus percipite. +Sirach Sir 26 33 20 Filio et mulieri, fratri et amico, non des potestatem super te in vita tua : et non dederis alii possessionem tuam, ne forte pœniteat te, et depreceris pro illis. +Sirach Sir 26 33 21 Dum adhuc superes et aspiras, non immutabit te omnis caro. +Sirach Sir 26 33 22 Melius est enim ut filii tui te rogent, quam te respicere in manus filiorum tuorum. +Sirach Sir 26 33 23 In omnibus operibus tuis præcellens esto. +Sirach Sir 26 33 24 Ne dederis maculam in gloria tua. In die consummationis dierum vitæ tuæ, et in tempore exitus tui, distribue hæreditatem tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 33 25 Cibaria, et virga, et onus asino : panis, et disciplina, et opus servo. +Sirach Sir 26 33 26 Operatur in disciplina, et quærit requiescere : laxa manus illi, et quærit libertatem. +Sirach Sir 26 33 27 Jugum et lorum curvant collum durum, et servum inclinant operationes assiduæ. +Sirach Sir 26 33 28 Servo malevolo tortura et compedes : mitte illum in operationem, ne vacet : +Sirach Sir 26 33 29 multam enim malitiam docuit otiositas. +Sirach Sir 26 33 30 In opera constitue eum : sic enim condecet illum. Quod si non obaudierit, curva illum compedibus, et non amplifices super omnem carnem : verum sine judicio nihil facias grave. +Sirach Sir 26 33 31 Si est tibi servus fidelis, sit tibi quasi anima tua : quasi fratrem sic eum tracta, quoniam in sanguine animæ comparasti illum. +Sirach Sir 26 33 32 Si læseris eum injuste, in fugam convertetur : +Sirach Sir 26 33 33 et si extollens discesserit, quem quæras et in qua via quæras illum nescis. +Sirach Sir 26 34 1 Vana spes et mendacium viro insensato : et somnia extollunt imprudentes. +Sirach Sir 26 34 2 Quasi qui apprehendit umbram et persequitur ventum, sic et qui attendit ad visa mendacia. +Sirach Sir 26 34 3 Hoc secundum hoc visio somniorum, ante faciem hominis similitudo hominis. +Sirach Sir 26 34 4 Ab immundo, quid mundabitur ? et a mendace, quid verum dicetur ? +Sirach Sir 26 34 5 Divinatio erroris, et auguria mendacia, et somnia malefacientium, vanitas est : +Sirach Sir 26 34 6 et sicut parturientis, cor tuum phantasias patitur. Nisi ab Altissimo fuerit emissa visitatio, ne dederis in illis cor tuum : +Sirach Sir 26 34 7 multos enim errare fecerunt somnia, et exciderunt sperantes in illis. +Sirach Sir 26 34 8 Sine mendacio consummabitur verbum legis, et sapientia in ore fidelis complanabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 34 9 Qui non est tentatus quid scit ? vir in multis expertus cogitabit multa : et qui multa didicit enarrabit intellectum. +Sirach Sir 26 34 10 Qui non est expertus pauca recognoscit : qui autem in multis factus est, multiplicat malitiam. +Sirach Sir 26 34 11 Qui tentatus non est qualia scit ? qui implanatus est abundabit nequitia. +Sirach Sir 26 34 12 Multa vidi errando, et plurimas verborum consuetudines. +Sirach Sir 26 34 13 Aliquoties usque ad mortem periclitatus sum horum causa, et liberatus sum gratia Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 34 14 Spiritus timentium Deum quæritur, et in respectu illius benedicetur. +Sirach Sir 26 34 15 Spes enim illorum in salvantem illos, et oculi Dei in diligentes se. +Sirach Sir 26 34 16 Qui timet Dominum nihil trepidabit : et non pavebit, quoniam ipse est spes ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 34 17 Timentis Dominum, beata est anima ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 34 18 Ad quem respicit, et quis est fortitudo ejus ? +Sirach Sir 26 34 19 Oculi Domini super timentes eum : protector potentiæ, firmamentum virtutis, tegimen ardoris, et umbraculum meridiani : +Sirach Sir 26 34 20 deprecatio offensionis, et adjutorium casus : exaltans animam, et illuminans oculos, dans sanitatem, et vitam, et benedictionem. +Sirach Sir 26 34 21 Immolantis ex iniquo oblatio est maculata, et non sunt beneplacitæ subsannationes injustorum. +Sirach Sir 26 34 22 Dominus solus sustinentibus se in via veritatis et justitiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 34 23 Dona iniquorum non probat Altissimus, nec respicit in oblationes iniquorum, nec in multitudine sacrificiorum eorum propitiabitur peccatis. +Sirach Sir 26 34 24 Qui offert sacrificium ex substantia pauperum, quasi qui victimat filium in conspectu patris sui. +Sirach Sir 26 34 25 Panis egentium vita pauperum est : qui defraudat illum homo sanguinis est. +Sirach Sir 26 34 26 Qui aufert in sudore panem, quasi qui occidit proximum suum. +Sirach Sir 26 34 27 Qui effundit sanguinem, et qui fraudem facit mercenario, fratres sunt. +Sirach Sir 26 34 28 Unus ædificans, et unus destruens : quid prodest illis, nisi labor ? +Sirach Sir 26 34 29 Unus orans, et unus maledicens : cujus vocem exaudiet Deus ? +Sirach Sir 26 34 30 Qui baptizatur a mortuo, et iterum tangit eum, quid proficit lavatio illius ? +Sirach Sir 26 34 31 Sic homo qui jejunat in peccatis suis, et iterum eadem faciens : quid proficit humiliando se ? orationem illius quis exaudiet ? +Sirach Sir 26 35 1 Qui conservat legem multiplicat oblationem. +Sirach Sir 26 35 2 Sacrificium salutare est attendere mandatis, et discedere ab omni iniquitate. +Sirach Sir 26 35 3 Et propitiationem litare sacrificii super injustitias : et deprecatio pro peccatis, recedere ab injustitia. +Sirach Sir 26 35 4 Retribuet gratiam qui offert similaginem : et qui facit misericordiam offert sacrificium. +Sirach Sir 26 35 5 Beneplacitum est Domino recedere ab iniquitate : et deprecatio pro peccatis recedere ab injustitia. +Sirach Sir 26 35 6 Non apparebis ante conspectum Domini vacuus : +Sirach Sir 26 35 7 hæc enim omnia propter mandatum Dei fiunt. +Sirach Sir 26 35 8 Oblatio justi impinguat altare, et odor suavitatis est in conspectu Altissimi. +Sirach Sir 26 35 9 Sacrificium justi acceptum est, et memoriam ejus non obliviscetur Dominus. +Sirach Sir 26 35 10 Bono animo gloriam redde Deo, et non minuas primitias manuum tuarum. +Sirach Sir 26 35 11 In omni dato hilarem fac vultum tuum, et in exsultatione sanctifica decimas tuas. +Sirach Sir 26 35 12 Da Altissimo secundum datum ejus, et in bono oculo adinventionem facito manuum tuarum, +Sirach Sir 26 35 13 quoniam Dominus retribuens est, et septies tantum reddet tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 35 14 Noli offerre munera prava, non enim suscipiet illa. +Sirach Sir 26 35 15 Et noli inspicere sacrificum injustum, quoniam Dominus judex est, et non est apud illum gloria personæ. +Sirach Sir 26 35 16 Non accipiet Dominus personam in pauperem, et deprecationem læsi exaudiet. +Sirach Sir 26 35 17 Non despiciet preces pupilli, nec viduam, si effundat loquelam gemitus. +Sirach Sir 26 35 18 Nonne lacrimæ viduæ ad maxillam descendunt, et exclamatio ejus super deducentem eas ? +Sirach Sir 26 35 19 A maxilla enim ascendunt usque ad cælum, et Dominus exauditor non delectabitur in illis. +Sirach Sir 26 35 20 Qui adorat Deum in oblectatione suscipietur, et deprecatio illius usque ad nubes propinquabit. +Sirach Sir 26 35 21 Oratio humiliantis se nubes penetrabit, et donec propinquet non consolabitur, et non discedet donec Altissimus aspiciat. +Sirach Sir 26 35 22 Et Dominus non elongabit : et judicabit justos, et faciet judicium : et Fortissimus non habebit in illis patientiam, ut contribulet dorsum ipsorum : +Sirach Sir 26 35 23 et gentibus reddet vindictam, donec tollat plenitudinem superborum, et sceptra iniquorum contribulet : +Sirach Sir 26 35 24 donec reddat hominibus secundum actus suos, et secundum opera Adæ, et secundum præsumptionem illius : +Sirach Sir 26 35 25 donec judicet judicium plebis suæ, et oblectabit justos misericordia sua. +Sirach Sir 26 35 26 Speciosa misericordia Dei in tempore tribulationis, quasi nubes pluviæ in tempore siccitatis. +Sirach Sir 26 36 1 Miserere nostri, Deus omnium, et respice nos, et ostende nobis lucem miserationum tuarum : +Sirach Sir 26 36 2 et immitte timorem tuum super gentes quæ non exquisierunt te, ut cognoscant quia non est deus nisi tu, et enarrent magnalia tua. +Sirach Sir 26 36 3 Alleva manum tuam super gentes alienas, ut videant potentiam tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 36 4 Sicut enim in conspectu eorum sanctificatus es in nobis, sic in conspectu nostro magnificaberis in eis : +Sirach Sir 26 36 5 ut cognoscant te, sicut et nos cognovimus quoniam non est deus præter te, Domine. +Sirach Sir 26 36 6 Innova signa, et immuta mirabilia. +Sirach Sir 26 36 7 Glorifica manum et brachium dextrum. +Sirach Sir 26 36 8 Excita furorem, et effunde iram. +Sirach Sir 26 36 9 Tolle adversarium, et afflige inimicum. +Sirach Sir 26 36 10 Festina tempus, et memento finis, ut enarrent mirabilia tua. +Sirach Sir 26 36 11 In ira flammæ devoretur qui salvatur : et qui pessimant plebem tuam inveniant perditionem. +Sirach Sir 26 36 12 Contere caput principum inimicorum, dicentium : Non est alius præter nos. +Sirach Sir 26 36 13 Congrega omnes tribus Jacob, ut cognoscant quia non est deus nisi tu, et enarrent magnalia tua, et hæreditabis eos sicut ab initio. +Sirach Sir 26 36 14 Miserere plebi tuæ, super quam invocatum est nomen tuum, et Israël quem coæquasti primogenito tuo. +Sirach Sir 26 36 15 Miserere civitati sanctificationis tuæ, Jerusalem, civitati requiei tuæ. +Sirach Sir 26 36 16 Reple Sion inenarrabilibus verbis tuis, et gloria tua populum tuum. +Sirach Sir 26 36 17 Da testimonium his qui ab initio creaturæ tuæ sunt, et suscita prædicationes quas locuti sunt in nomine tuo prophetæ priores. +Sirach Sir 26 36 18 Da mercedem sustinentibus te, ut prophetæ tui fideles inveniantur : et exaudi orationes servorum tuorum, +Sirach Sir 26 36 19 secundum benedictionem Aaron de populo tuo : et dirige nos in viam justitiæ, et sciant omnes qui habitant terram quia tu es Deus conspector sæculorum. +Sirach Sir 26 36 20 Omnem escam manducabit venter : et est cibus cibo melior. +Sirach Sir 26 36 21 Fauces contingunt cibum feræ, et cor sensatum verba mendacia. +Sirach Sir 26 36 22 Cor pravum dabit tristitiam, et homo peritus resistet illi. +Sirach Sir 26 36 23 Omnem masculum excipiet mulier : et est filia melior filia. +Sirach Sir 26 36 24 Species mulieris exhilarat faciem viri sui, et super omnem concupiscentiam hominis superducit desiderium. +Sirach Sir 26 36 25 Si est lingua curationis, est et mitigationis et misericordiæ : non est vir illius secundum filios hominum. +Sirach Sir 26 36 26 Qui possidet mulierem bonam inchoat possessionem : adjutorium secundum illum est, et columna ut requies. +Sirach Sir 26 36 27 Ubi non est sepes, diripietur possessio : et ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens. +Sirach Sir 26 36 28 Quis credit ei qui non habet nidum, et deflectens ubicumque obscuraverit, quasi succinctus latro exiliens de civitate in civitatem ? +Sirach Sir 26 37 1 Omnis amicus dicet : Et ego amicitiam copulavi : sed est amicus solo nomine amicus. Nonne tristitia inest usque ad mortem ? +Sirach Sir 26 37 2 sodalis autem et amicus ad inimicitiam convertentur. +Sirach Sir 26 37 3 O præsumptio nequissima, unde creata es cooperire aridam malitia et dolositate illius ? +Sirach Sir 26 37 4 Sodalis amico conjucundatur in oblectationibus, et in tempore tribulationis adversarius erit. +Sirach Sir 26 37 5 Sodalis amico condolet causa ventris, et contra hostem accipiet scutum. +Sirach Sir 26 37 6 Non obliviscaris amici tui in animo tuo, et non immemor sis illius in opibus tuis. +Sirach Sir 26 37 7 Noli consiliari cum eo qui tibi insidiatur, et a zelantibus te absconde consilium. +Sirach Sir 26 37 8 Omnis consiliarius prodit consilium, sed est consiliarius in semetipso. +Sirach Sir 26 37 9 A consiliario serva animam tuam : prius scito quæ sit illius necessitas : et ipse enim animo suo cogitabit : +Sirach Sir 26 37 10 ne forte mittat sudem in terram, et dicat tibi : +Sirach Sir 26 37 11 Bona est via tua : et stet e contrario videre quid tibi eveniat. +Sirach Sir 26 37 12 Cum viro irreligioso tracta de sanctitate, et cum injusto de justitia, et cum muliere de ea quæ æmulatur, cum timido de bello, cum negotiatore de trajectione, cum emptore de venditione, cum viro livido de gratiis agendis, +Sirach Sir 26 37 13 cum impio de pietate, cum inhonesto de honestate, cum operario agrario de omni opere, +Sirach Sir 26 37 14 cum operario annuali de consummatione anni, cum servo pigro de multa operatione. Non attendas his in omni consilio : +Sirach Sir 26 37 15 sed cum viro sancto assiduus esto, quemcumque cognoveris observantem timorem Dei : +Sirach Sir 26 37 16 cujus anima est secundum animam tuam, et qui, cum titubaveris in tenebris, condolebit tibi. +Sirach Sir 26 37 17 Cor boni consilii statue tecum : non est enim tibi aliud pluris illo. +Sirach Sir 26 37 18 Anima viri sancti enuntiat aliquando vera, quam septem circumspectores sedentes in excelso ad speculandum. +Sirach Sir 26 37 19 Et in his omnibus deprecare Altissimum, ut dirigat in veritate viam tuam. +Sirach Sir 26 37 20 Ante omnia opera verbum verax præcedat te, et ante omnem actum consilium stabile. +Sirach Sir 26 37 21 Verbum nequam immutabit cor : ex quo partes quatuor oriuntur : bonum et malum, vita et mors : et dominatrix illorum est assidua lingua. Est vir astutus multorum eruditor, et animæ suæ inutilis est. +Sirach Sir 26 37 22 Vir peritus multos erudivit, et animæ suæ suavis est. +Sirach Sir 26 37 23 Qui sophistice loquitur odibilis est : in omni re defraudabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 37 24 Non est illi data a Domino gratia, omni enim sapientia defraudatus est. +Sirach Sir 26 37 25 Est sapiens animæ suæ sapiens, et fructus sensus illius laudabilis. +Sirach Sir 26 37 26 Vir sapiens plebem suam erudit, et fructus sensus illius fideles sunt. +Sirach Sir 26 37 27 Vir sapiens implebitur benedictionibus, et videntes illum laudabunt. +Sirach Sir 26 37 28 Vita viri in numero dierum : dies autem Israël innumerabiles sunt. +Sirach Sir 26 37 29 Sapiens in populo hæreditabit honorem, et nomen illius erit vivens in æternum. +Sirach Sir 26 37 30 Fili, in vita tua tenta animam tuam, et si fuerit nequam non des illi potestatem : +Sirach Sir 26 37 31 non enim omnia omnibus expediunt, et non omni animæ omne genus placet. +Sirach Sir 26 37 32 Noli avidus esse in omni epulatione, et non te effundas super omnem escam : +Sirach Sir 26 37 33 in multis enim escis erit infirmitas, et aviditas appropinquabit usque ad choleram. +Sirach Sir 26 37 34 Propter crapulam multi obierunt : qui autem abstinens est adjiciet vitam. +Sirach Sir 26 38 1 Honora medicum propter necessitatem : etenim illum creavit Altissimus. +Sirach Sir 26 38 2 A Deo est enim omnis medela, et a rege accipiet donationem. +Sirach Sir 26 38 3 Disciplina medici exaltabit caput illius, et in conspectu magnatorum collaudabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 38 4 Altissimus creavit de terra medicamenta, et vir prudens non abhorrebit illa. +Sirach Sir 26 38 5 Nonne a ligno indulcata est aqua amara ? +Sirach Sir 26 38 6 Ad agnitionem hominum virtus illorum : et dedit hominibus scientiam Altissimus, honorari in mirabilibus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 38 7 In his curans mitigabit dolorem : et unguentarius faciet pigmenta suavitatis, et unctiones conficiet sanitatis : et non consummabuntur opera ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 38 8 Pax enim Dei super faciem terræ. +Sirach Sir 26 38 9 Fili, in tua infirmitate ne despicias teipsum : sed ora Dominum, et ipse curabit te. +Sirach Sir 26 38 10 Averte a delicto, et dirige manus, et ab omni delicto munda cor tuum. +Sirach Sir 26 38 11 Da suavitatem et memoriam similaginis, et impingua oblationem, et da locum medico : +Sirach Sir 26 38 12 etenim illum Dominus creavit, et non discedat a te, quia opera ejus sunt necessaria. +Sirach Sir 26 38 13 Est enim tempus quando in manus illorum incurras : +Sirach Sir 26 38 14 ipsi vero Dominum deprecabuntur, ut dirigat requiem eorum, et sanitatem, propter conversationem illorum. +Sirach Sir 26 38 15 Qui delinquit in conspectu ejus qui fecit eum, incidet in manus medici. +Sirach Sir 26 38 16 Fili, in mortuum produc lacrimas, et quasi dira passus incipe plorare : et secundum judicium contege corpus illius, et non despicias sepulturam illius. +Sirach Sir 26 38 17 Propter delaturam autem amare fer luctum illius uno die, et consolare propter tristitiam : +Sirach Sir 26 38 18 et fac luctum secundum meritum ejus uno die, vel duobus, propter detractionem : +Sirach Sir 26 38 19 a tristitia enim festinat mors, et cooperit virtutem, et tristitia cordis flectit cervicem. +Sirach Sir 26 38 20 In abductione permanet tristitia, et substantia inopis secundum cor ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 38 21 Ne dederis in tristitia cor tuum, sed repelle eam a te, et memento novissimorum. +Sirach Sir 26 38 22 Noli oblivisci, neque enim est conversio : et huic nihil proderis, et teipsum pessimabis. +Sirach Sir 26 38 23 Memor esto judicii mei : sic enim erit et tuum : mihi heri, et tibi hodie. +Sirach Sir 26 38 24 In requie mortui requiescere fac memoriam ejus, et consolare illum in exitu spiritus sui. +Sirach Sir 26 38 25 Sapientia scribæ in tempore vacuitatis, et qui minoratur actu sapientiam percipiet, qua sapientia replebitur. +Sirach Sir 26 38 26 Qui tenet aratrum, et qui gloriatur in jaculo, stimulo boves agitat, et conversatur in operibus eorum, et enarratio ejus in filiis taurorum. +Sirach Sir 26 38 27 Cor suum dabit ad versandos sulcos, et vigilia ejus in sagina vaccarum. +Sirach Sir 26 38 28 Sic omnis faber et architectus, qui noctem tamquam diem transigit : qui sculpit signacula sculptilia, et assiduitas ejus variat picturam : cor suum dabit in similitudinem picturæ, et vigilia sua perficiet opus. +Sirach Sir 26 38 29 Sic faber ferrarius sedens juxta incudem, et considerans opus ferri : vapor ignis uret carnes ejus, et in calore fornacis concertatur. +Sirach Sir 26 38 30 Vox mallei innovat aurem ejus, et contra similitudinem vasis oculus ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 38 31 Cor suum dabit in consummationem operum, et vigilia sua ornabit in perfectionem. +Sirach Sir 26 38 32 Sic figulus sedens ad opus suum, convertens pedibus suis rotam, qui in sollicitudine positus est semper propter opus suum, et in numero est omnis operatio ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 38 33 In brachio suo formabit lutum, et ante pedes suos curvabit virtutem suam. +Sirach Sir 26 38 34 Cor suum dabit ut consummet linitionem, et vigilia sua mundabit fornacem. +Sirach Sir 26 38 35 Omnes hi in manibus suis speraverunt, et unusquisque in arte sua sapiens est. +Sirach Sir 26 38 36 Sine his omnibus non ædificatur civitas, +Sirach Sir 26 38 37 et non inhabitabunt, nec inambulabunt, et in ecclesiam non transilient. +Sirach Sir 26 38 38 Super sellam judicis non sedebunt, et testamentum judicii non intelligent, neque palam facient disciplinam et judicium, et in parabolis non invenientur : +Sirach Sir 26 38 39 sed creaturam ævi confirmabunt : et deprecatio illorum in operatione artis, accomodantes animam suam, et conquirentes in lege Altissimi. +Sirach Sir 26 39 1 Sapientiam omnium antiquorum exquiret sapiens, et in prophetis vacabit. +Sirach Sir 26 39 2 Narrationem virorum nominatorum conservabit, et in versutias parabolarum simul introibit. +Sirach Sir 26 39 3 Occulta proverbiorum exquiret, et in absconditis parabolarum conversabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 4 In medio magnatorum ministrabit, et in conspectu præsidis apparebit. +Sirach Sir 26 39 5 In terram alienigenarum gentium pertransiet : bona enim et mala in hominibus tentabit. +Sirach Sir 26 39 6 Cor suum tradet ad vigilandum diluculo ad Dominum, qui fecit illum, et in conspectu Altissimi deprecabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 7 Aperiet os suum in oratione, et pro delictis suis deprecabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 8 Si enim Dominus magnus voluerit, spiritu intelligentiæ replebit illum : +Sirach Sir 26 39 9 et ipse tamquam imbres mittet eloquia sapientiæ suæ, et in oratione confitebitur Domino : +Sirach Sir 26 39 10 et ipse diriget consilium ejus, et disciplinam, et in absconditis suis consiliabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 11 Ipse palam faciet disciplinam doctrinæ suæ, et in lege testamenti Domini gloriabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 12 Collaudabunt multi sapientiam ejus, et usque in sæculum non delebitur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 13 Non recedet memoria ejus, et nomen ejus requiretur a generatione in generationem. +Sirach Sir 26 39 14 Sapientiam ejus enarrabunt gentes, et laudem ejus enuntiabit ecclesia. +Sirach Sir 26 39 15 Si permanserit, nomen derelinquet plus quam mille : et si requieverit, proderit illi. +Sirach Sir 26 39 16 Adhuc consiliabor ut enarrem : ut furore enim repletus sum. +Sirach Sir 26 39 17 In voce dicit : Obaudite me, divini fructus, et quasi rosa plantata super rivos aquarum fructificate. +Sirach Sir 26 39 18 Quasi Libanus odorem suavitatis habete. +Sirach Sir 26 39 19 Florete flores quasi lilium : et date odorem, et frondete in gratiam : et collaudate canticum, et benedicite Dominum in operibus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 39 20 Date nomini ejus magnificentiam, et confitemini illi in voce labiorum vestrorum, et in canticis labiorum, et citharis : et sic dicetis in confessione : +Sirach Sir 26 39 21 Opera Domini universa bona valde. +Sirach Sir 26 39 22 In verbo ejus stetit aqua sicut congeries : et in sermone oris illius sicut exceptoria aquarum : +Sirach Sir 26 39 23 quoniam in præcepto ipsius placor fit, et non est minoratio in salute ipsius. +Sirach Sir 26 39 24 Opera omnis carnis coram illo, et non est quidquam absconditum ab oculis ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 39 25 A sæculo usque in sæculum respicit, et nihil est mirabile in conspectu ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 39 26 Non est dicere : Quid est hoc, aut quid est istud ? omnia enim in tempore suo quærentur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 27 Benedictio illius quasi fluvius inundavit. +Sirach Sir 26 39 28 Quomodo cataclysmus aridam inebriavit, sic ira ipsius gentes quæ non exquisierunt eum hæreditabit. +Sirach Sir 26 39 29 Quomodo convertit aquas in siccitatem, et siccata est terra, et viæ illius viis illorum directæ sunt, sic peccatoribus offensiones in ira ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 39 30 Bona bonis creata sunt ab initio : sic nequissimis bona et mala. +Sirach Sir 26 39 31 Initium necessariæ rei vitæ hominum, aqua, ignis, et ferrum, sal, lac, et panis similagineus, et mel, et botrus uvæ, et oleum, et vestimentum. +Sirach Sir 26 39 32 Hæc omnia sanctis in bona, sic et impiis et peccatoribus in mala convertentur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 33 Sunt spiritus qui ad vindictam creati sunt, et in furore suo confirmaverunt tormenta sua. +Sirach Sir 26 39 34 In tempore consummationis effundent virtutem, et furorem ejus qui fecit illos placabunt. +Sirach Sir 26 39 35 Ignis, grando, fames, et mors, omnia hæc ad vindictam creata sunt : +Sirach Sir 26 39 36 bestiarum dentes, et scorpii, et serpentes, et rhomphæa vindicans in exterminium impios. +Sirach Sir 26 39 37 In mandatis ejus epulabuntur : et super terram in necessitatem præparabuntur, et in temporibus suis non præterient verbum. +Sirach Sir 26 39 38 Propterea ab initio confirmatus sum, et consiliatus sum, et cogitavi, et scripta dimisi. +Sirach Sir 26 39 39 Omnia opera Domini bona, et omne opus hora sua subministrabit. +Sirach Sir 26 39 40 Non est dicere : Hoc illo nequius est : omnia enim in tempore suo comprobabuntur. +Sirach Sir 26 39 41 Et nunc in omni corde et ore collaudate, et benedicite nomen Domini. +Sirach Sir 26 40 1 Occupatio magna creata est omnibus hominibus, et jugum grave super filios Adam, a die exitus de ventre matris eorum usque in diem sepulturæ in matrem omnium. +Sirach Sir 26 40 2 Cogitationes eorum, et timores cordis, adinventio exspectationis, et dies finitionis, +Sirach Sir 26 40 3 a residente super sedem gloriosam, usque ad humiliatum in terra et cinere : +Sirach Sir 26 40 4 ab eo qui utitur hyacintho et portat coronam, usque ad eum qui operitur lino crudo : furor, zelus, tumultus, fluctuatio, et timor mortis, iracundia perseverans, et contentio : +Sirach Sir 26 40 5 et in tempore refectionis in cubili, somnus noctis immutat scientiam ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 40 6 Modicum tamquam nihil in requie, et ab eo in somnis, quasi in die respectus. +Sirach Sir 26 40 7 Conturbatus est in visu cordis sui, tamquam qui evaserit in die belli : in tempore salutis suæ exsurrexit, et admirans ad nullum timorem : +Sirach Sir 26 40 8 cum omni carne, ab homine usque ad pecus, et super peccatores septuplum. +Sirach Sir 26 40 9 Ad hæc mors, sanguis, contentio, et rhomphæa, oppressiones, fames, et contritio, et flagella : +Sirach Sir 26 40 10 super iniquos creata sunt hæc omnia : et propter illos factus est cataclysmus. +Sirach Sir 26 40 11 Omnia quæ de terra sunt in terram convertentur, et omnes aquæ in mare revertentur. +Sirach Sir 26 40 12 Omne munus et iniquitas delebitur, et fides in sæculum stabit. +Sirach Sir 26 40 13 Substantiæ injustorum sicut fluvius siccabuntur, et sicut tonitruum magnum in pluvia personabunt. +Sirach Sir 26 40 14 In aperiendo manus suas lætabitur : sic prævaricatores in consummatione tabescent. +Sirach Sir 26 40 15 Nepotes impiorum non multiplicabunt ramos : et radices immundæ super cacumen petræ sonant. +Sirach Sir 26 40 16 Super omnem aquam viriditas, et ad oram fluminis ante omne fœnum evelletur. +Sirach Sir 26 40 17 Gratia sicut paradisus in benedictionibus, et misericordia in sæculum permanet. +Sirach Sir 26 40 18 Vita sibi sufficientis operarii condulcabitur, et in ea invenies thesaurum. +Sirach Sir 26 40 19 Filii et ædificatio civitatis confirmabit nomen : et super hæc mulier immaculata computabitur. +Sirach Sir 26 40 20 Vinum et musica lætificant cor : et super utraque dilectio sapientiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 40 21 Tibiæ et psalterium suavem faciunt melodiam : et super utraque lingua suavis. +Sirach Sir 26 40 22 Gratiam et speciem desiderabit oculus tuus : et super hæc virides sationes. +Sirach Sir 26 40 23 Amicus et sodalis in tempore convenientes, et super utrosque mulier cum viro. +Sirach Sir 26 40 24 Fratres in adjutorium in tempore tribulationis : et super eos misericordia liberabit. +Sirach Sir 26 40 25 Aurum et argentum est constitutio pedum : et super utrumque consilium beneplacitum. +Sirach Sir 26 40 26 Facultates et virtutes exaltant cor, et super hæc timor Domini. +Sirach Sir 26 40 27 Non est in timore Domini minoratio : et non est in eo inquirere adjutorium. +Sirach Sir 26 40 28 Timor Domini sicut paradisus benedictionis, et super omnem gloriam operuerunt illum. +Sirach Sir 26 40 29 Fili, in tempore vitæ tuæ ne indigeas : melius est enim mori quam indigere. +Sirach Sir 26 40 30 Vir respiciens in mensam alienam, non est vita ejus in cogitatione victus : alit enim animam suam cibis alienis : +Sirach Sir 26 40 31 vir autem disciplinatus et eruditus custodiet se. +Sirach Sir 26 40 32 In ore imprudentis condulcabitur inopia, et in ventre ejus ignis ardebit. +Sirach Sir 26 41 1 O mors, quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis : +Sirach Sir 26 41 2 viro quieto, et cujus viæ directæ sunt in omnibus, et adhuc valenti accipere cibum ! +Sirach Sir 26 41 3 O mors, bonum est judicium tuum homini indigenti, et qui minoratur viribus, +Sirach Sir 26 41 4 defecto ætate, et cui de omnibus cura est, et incredibili, qui perdit patientiam ! +Sirach Sir 26 41 5 Noli metuere judicium mortis : memento quæ ante te fuerunt, et quæ superventura sunt tibi : hoc judicium a Domino omni carni. +Sirach Sir 26 41 6 Et quid superveniet tibi in beneplacito Altissimi ? sive decem, sive centum, sive mille anni : +Sirach Sir 26 41 7 non est enim in inferno accusatio vitæ. +Sirach Sir 26 41 8 Filii abominationum fiunt filii peccatorum, et qui conversantur secus domos impiorum. +Sirach Sir 26 41 9 Filiorum peccatorum periet hæreditas, et cum semine illorum assiduitas opprobrii. +Sirach Sir 26 41 10 De patre impio queruntur filii, quoniam propter illum sunt in opprobrio. +Sirach Sir 26 41 11 Væ vobis, viri impii, qui dereliquistis legem Domini Altissimi ! +Sirach Sir 26 41 12 Et si nati fueritis, in maledictione nascemini : et si mortui fueritis, in maledictione erit pars vestra. +Sirach Sir 26 41 13 Omnia quæ de terra sunt in terram convertentur : sic impii a maledicto in perditionem. +Sirach Sir 26 41 14 Luctus hominum in corpore ipsorum : nomen autem impiorum delebitur. +Sirach Sir 26 41 15 Curam habe de bono nomine : hoc enim magis permanebit tibi quam mille thesauri pretiosi et magni. +Sirach Sir 26 41 16 Bonæ vitæ numerus dierum : bonum autem nomen permanebit in ævum. +Sirach Sir 26 41 17 Disciplinam in pace conservate, filii : sapientia enim abscondita, et thesaurus invisus, quæ utilitas in utrisque ? +Sirach Sir 26 41 18 Melior est homo qui abscondit stultitiam suam, quam homo qui abscondit sapientiam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 41 19 Verumtamen reveremini in his quæ procedunt de ore meo : +Sirach Sir 26 41 20 non est enim bonum omnem reverentiam observare, et non omnia omnibus bene placent in fide. +Sirach Sir 26 41 21 Erubescite a patre et a matre de fornicatione : et a præsidente et a potente de mendacio : +Sirach Sir 26 41 22 a principe et a judice de delicto : a synagoga et plebe de iniquitate : +Sirach Sir 26 41 23 a socio et amico de injustitia, et de loco in quo habitas : +Sirach Sir 26 41 24 de furto, de veritate Dei, et testamento : de discubitu in panibus, et ab obfuscatione dati et accepti : +Sirach Sir 26 41 25 a salutantibus de silentio, a respectu mulieris fornicariæ, et ab aversione vultus cognati. +Sirach Sir 26 41 26 Ne avertas faciem a proximo tuo, et ab auferendo partem et non restituendo. +Sirach Sir 26 41 27 Ne respicias mulierem alieni viri, et ne scruteris ancillam ejus, neque steteris ad lectum ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 41 28 Ab amicis de sermonibus improperii : et cum dederis, ne improperes. +Sirach Sir 26 42 1 Non duplices sermonem auditus de revelatione sermonis absconditi : et eris vere sine confusione, et invenies gratiam in conspectu omnium hominum. Ne pro his omnibus confundaris, et ne accipias personam ut delinquas : +Sirach Sir 26 42 2 de lege Altissimi, et testamento, et de judicio justificare impium, +Sirach Sir 26 42 3 de verbo sociorum et viatorum, et de datione hæreditatis amicorum, +Sirach Sir 26 42 4 de æqualitate stateræ et ponderum, de acquisitione multorum et paucorum, +Sirach Sir 26 42 5 de corruptione emptionis et negotiatorum, et de multa disciplina filiorum, et servo pessimo latus sanguinare. +Sirach Sir 26 42 6 Super mulierem nequam bonum est signum. +Sirach Sir 26 42 7 Ubi manus multæ sunt, claude : et quodcumque trades, numera et appende : datum vero et acceptum omne describe. +Sirach Sir 26 42 8 De disciplina insensati et fatui, et de senioribus qui judicantur ab adolescentibus : et eris eruditus in omnibus, et probabilis in conspectu omnium vivorum. +Sirach Sir 26 42 9 Filia patris abscondita est vigilia, et sollicitudo ejus aufert somnum : ne forte in adolescentia sua adulta efficiatur, et cum viro commorata odibilis fiat : +Sirach Sir 26 42 10 nequando polluatur in virginitate sua, et in paternis suis gravida inveniatur : ne forte cum viro commorata transgrediatur, aut certe sterilis efficiatur. +Sirach Sir 26 42 11 Super filiam luxuriosam confirma custodiam, nequando faciat te in opprobrium venire inimicis, a detractione in civitate, et objectione plebis, et confundat te in multitudine populi. +Sirach Sir 26 42 12 Omni homini noli intendere in specie, et in medio mulierum noli commorari : +Sirach Sir 26 42 13 de vestimentis enim procedit tinea, et a muliere iniquitas viri. +Sirach Sir 26 42 14 Melior est enim iniquitas viri quam mulier benefaciens, et mulier confundens in opprobrium. +Sirach Sir 26 42 15 Memor ero igitur operum Domini, et quæ vidi annuntiabo. In sermonibus Domini opera ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 42 16 Sol illuminans per omnia respexit, et gloria Domini plenum est opus ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 42 17 Nonne Dominus fecit sanctos enarrare omnia mirabilia sua, quæ confirmavit Dominus omnipotens stabiliri in gloria sua ? +Sirach Sir 26 42 18 Abyssum et cor hominum investigavit, et in astutia eorum excogitavit. +Sirach Sir 26 42 19 Cognovit enim Dominus omnem scientiam, et inspexit in signum ævi, annuntians quæ præterierunt et quæ superventura sunt, revelans vestigia occultorum. +Sirach Sir 26 42 20 Non præterit illum omnis cogitatus, et non abscondit se ab eo ullus sermo. +Sirach Sir 26 42 21 Magnalia sapientiæ suæ decoravit, qui est ante sæculum et usque in sæculum : neque adjectum est, +Sirach Sir 26 42 22 neque minuitur, et non eget alicujus consilio. +Sirach Sir 26 42 23 Quam desiderabilia omnia opera ejus ! et tamquam scintilla quæ est considerare ! +Sirach Sir 26 42 24 Omnia hæc vivunt, et manent in sæculum, et in omni necessitate omnia obaudiunt ei. +Sirach Sir 26 42 25 Omnia duplicia, unum contra unum, et non fecit quidquam deesse. +Sirach Sir 26 42 26 Uniuscujusque confirmavit bona : et quis satiabitur videns gloriam ejus ? +Sirach Sir 26 43 1 Altitudinis firmamentum pulchritudo ejus est, species cæli in visione gloriæ. +Sirach Sir 26 43 2 Sol in aspectu annuntians in exitu, vas admirabile, opus Excelsi. +Sirach Sir 26 43 3 In meridiano exurit terram, et in conspectu ardoris ejus quis poterit sustinere ? fornacem custodiens in operibus ardoris : +Sirach Sir 26 43 4 tripliciter sol exurens montes, radios igneos exsufflans, et refulgens radiis suis obcæcat oculos. +Sirach Sir 26 43 5 Magnus Dominus qui fecit illum, et in sermonibus ejus festinavit iter. +Sirach Sir 26 43 6 Et luna in omnibus in tempore suo, ostensio temporis, et signum ævi. +Sirach Sir 26 43 7 A luna signum diei festi : luminare quod minuitur in consummatione. +Sirach Sir 26 43 8 Mensis secundum nomen ejus est, crescens mirabiliter in consummatione. +Sirach Sir 26 43 9 Vas castrorum in excelsis, in firmamento cæli resplendens gloriose. +Sirach Sir 26 43 10 Species cæli gloria stellarum : mundum illuminans in excelsis Dominus. +Sirach Sir 26 43 11 In verbis Sancti stabunt ad judicium, et non deficient in vigiliis suis. +Sirach Sir 26 43 12 Vide arcum, et benedic eum qui fecit illum : valde speciosus est in splendore suo. +Sirach Sir 26 43 13 Gyravit cælum in circuitu gloriæ suæ : manus Excelsi aperuerunt illum. +Sirach Sir 26 43 14 Imperio suo acceleravit nivem, et accelerat coruscationes emittere judicii sui. +Sirach Sir 26 43 15 Propterea aperti sunt thesauri, et evolaverunt nebulæ sicut aves. +Sirach Sir 26 43 16 In magnitudine sua posuit nubes, et confracti sunt lapides grandinis. +Sirach Sir 26 43 17 In conspectu ejus commovebuntur montes, et in voluntate ejus aspirabit notus. +Sirach Sir 26 43 18 Vox tonitrui ejus verberavit terram, tempestas aquilonis, et congregatio spiritus : +Sirach Sir 26 43 19 et sicut avis deponens ad sedendum, aspergit nivem, et sicut locusta demergens descensus ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 43 20 Pulchritudinem candoris ejus admirabitur oculus, et super imbrem ejus expavescet cor. +Sirach Sir 26 43 21 Gelu sicut salem effundet super terram : et dum gelaverit, fiet tamquam cacumina tribuli. +Sirach Sir 26 43 22 Frigidus ventus aquilo flavit, et gelavit crystallus ab aqua : super omnem congregationem aquarum requiescet, et sicut lorica induet se aquis : +Sirach Sir 26 43 23 et devorabit montes, et exuret desertum, et extinguet viride, sicut igne. +Sirach Sir 26 43 24 Medicina omnium in festinatione nebulæ : et ros obvians ab ardore venienti humilem efficiet eum. +Sirach Sir 26 43 25 In sermone ejus siluit ventus, et cogitatione sua placavit abyssum : et plantavit in illa Dominus insulas. +Sirach Sir 26 43 26 Qui navigant mare enarrent pericula ejus, et audientes auribus nostris admirabimur. +Sirach Sir 26 43 27 Illic præclara opera et mirabilia, varia bestiarum genera, et omnium pecorum, et creatura belluarum. +Sirach Sir 26 43 28 Propter ipsum confirmatus est itineris finis, et in sermone ejus composita sunt omnia. +Sirach Sir 26 43 29 Multa dicemus, et deficiemus in verbis : consummatio autem sermonum ipse est in omnibus. +Sirach Sir 26 43 30 Gloriantes ad quid valebimus ? ipse enim omnipotens super omnia opera sua. +Sirach Sir 26 43 31 Terribilis Dominus, et magnus vehementer, et mirabilis potentia ipsius. +Sirach Sir 26 43 32 Glorificantes Dominum quantumcumque potueritis, supervalebit enim adhuc : et admirabilis magnificentia ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 43 33 Benedicentes Dominum, exaltate illum quantum potestis : major enim est omni laude. +Sirach Sir 26 43 34 Exaltantes eum, replemini virtute, ne laboretis, non enim comprehendetis. +Sirach Sir 26 43 35 Quis videbit eum et enarrabit ? et quis magnificabit eum sicut est ab initio ? +Sirach Sir 26 43 36 Multa abscondita sunt majora his : pauca enim vidimus operum ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 43 37 Omnia autem Dominus fecit, et pie agentibus dedit sapientiam. +Sirach Sir 26 44 1 Laudemus viros gloriosos, et parentes nostros in generatione sua. +Sirach Sir 26 44 2 Multam gloriam fecit Dominus : magnificentia sua a sæculo. +Sirach Sir 26 44 3 Dominantes in potestatibus suis, homines magni virtute et prudentia sua præditi, nuntiantes in prophetis dignitatem prophetarum : +Sirach Sir 26 44 4 et imperantes in præsenti populo, et virtute prudentiæ populis sanctissima verba : +Sirach Sir 26 44 5 in peritia sua requirentes modos musicos, et narrantes carmina Scripturarum : +Sirach Sir 26 44 6 homines divites in virtute, pulchritudinis studium habentes, pacificantes in domibus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 44 7 Omnes isti in generationibus gentis suæ gloriam adepti sunt, et in diebus suis habentur in laudibus. +Sirach Sir 26 44 8 Qui de illis nati sunt reliquerunt nomen narrandi laudes eorum. +Sirach Sir 26 44 9 Et sunt quorum non est memoria : perierunt quasi qui non fuerint : et nati sunt quasi non nati, et filii ipsorum cum ipsis. +Sirach Sir 26 44 10 Sed illi viri misericordiæ sunt, quorum pietates non defuerunt. +Sirach Sir 26 44 11 Cum semine eorum permanent bona : +Sirach Sir 26 44 12 hæreditas sancta nepotes eorum, et in testamentis stetit semen eorum : +Sirach Sir 26 44 13 et filii eorum propter illos usque in æternum manent : semen eorum et gloria eorum non derelinquetur. +Sirach Sir 26 44 14 Corpora ipsorum in pace sepulta sunt, et nomen eorum vivit in generationem et generationem. +Sirach Sir 26 44 15 Sapientiam ipsorum narrent populi, et laudem eorum nuntiet ecclesia. +Sirach Sir 26 44 16 Enoch placuit Deo, et translatus est in paradisum, ut det gentibus pœnitentiam. +Sirach Sir 26 44 17 Noë inventus est perfectus, justus, et in tempore iracundiæ factus est reconciliatio. +Sirach Sir 26 44 18 Ideo dimissum est reliquum terræ, cum factum est diluvium. +Sirach Sir 26 44 19 Testamenta sæculi posita sunt apud illum, ne deleri possit diluvio omnis caro. +Sirach Sir 26 44 20 Abraham magnus pater multitudinis gentium, et non est inventus similis illi in gloria : qui conservavit legem Excelsi, et fuit in testamento cum illo. +Sirach Sir 26 44 21 In carne ejus stare fecit testamentum, et in tentatione inventus est fidelis. +Sirach Sir 26 44 22 Ideo jurejurando dedit illi gloriam in gente sua, crescere illum quasi terræ cumulum, +Sirach Sir 26 44 23 et ut stellas exaltare semen ejus, et hæreditare illos a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terræ. +Sirach Sir 26 44 24 Et in Isaac eodem modo fecit, propter Abraham patrem ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 44 25 Benedictionem omnium gentium dedit illi Dominus, et testamentum confirmavit super caput Jacob. +Sirach Sir 26 44 26 Agnovit eum in benedictionibus suis, et dedit illi hæreditatem, et divisit illi partem in tribubus duodecim. +Sirach Sir 26 44 27 Et conservavit illi homines misericordiæ, invenientes gratiam in oculis omnis carnis. +Sirach Sir 26 45 1 Dilectus Deo et hominibus Moyses, cujus memoria in benedictione est. +Sirach Sir 26 45 2 Similem illum fecit in gloria sanctorum, et magnificavit eum in timore inimicorum, et in verbis suis monstra placavit. +Sirach Sir 26 45 3 Glorificavit illum in conspectu regum, et jussit illi coram populo suo, et ostendit illi gloriam suam. +Sirach Sir 26 45 4 In fide et lenitate ipsius sanctum fecit illum, et elegit eum ex omni carne. +Sirach Sir 26 45 5 Audivit enim eum, et vocem ipsius, et induxit illum in nubem. +Sirach Sir 26 45 6 Et dedit illi coram præcepta, et legem vitæ et disciplinæ, docere Jacob testamentum suum, et judicia sua Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 45 7 Excelsum fecit Aaron fratrem ejus, et similem sibi, de tribu Levi. +Sirach Sir 26 45 8 Statuit ei testamentum æternum, et dedit illi sacerdotium gentis, et beatificavit illum in gloria : +Sirach Sir 26 45 9 et circumcinxit eum zona gloriæ, et induit eum stolam gloriæ, et coronavit eum in vasis virtutis. +Sirach Sir 26 45 10 Circumpedes, et femoralia, et humerale posuit ei : et cinxit illum tintinnabulis aureis plurimis in gyro : +Sirach Sir 26 45 11 dare sonitum in incessu suo, auditum facere sonitum in templo in memoriam filiis gentis suæ. +Sirach Sir 26 45 12 Stolam sanctam auro, et hyacintho, et purpura, opus textile viri sapientis, judicio et veritate præditi : +Sirach Sir 26 45 13 torto cocco opus artificis gemmis pretiosis figuratis in ligatura auri, et opere lapidarii sculptis, in memoriam secundum numerum tribuum Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 45 14 Corona aurea super mitram ejus expressa signo sanctitatis, et gloria honoris : opus virtutis, et desideria oculorum ornata. +Sirach Sir 26 45 15 Sic pulchra ante ipsum non fuerunt talia usque ad originem. +Sirach Sir 26 45 16 Non est indutus illa alienigena aliquis, sed tantum filii ipsius soli, et nepotes ejus per omne tempus. +Sirach Sir 26 45 17 Sacrificia ipsius consumpta sunt igne quotidie. +Sirach Sir 26 45 18 Complevit Moyses manus ejus, et unxit illum oleo sancto. +Sirach Sir 26 45 19 Factum est illi in testamentum æternum, et semini ejus, sicut dies cæli, fungi sacerdotio, et habere laudem, et glorificare populum suum in nomine ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 45 20 Ipsum elegit ab omni vivente, offerre sacrificium Deo, incensum, et bonum odorem, in memoriam placare pro populo suo : +Sirach Sir 26 45 21 et dedit illi in præceptis suis potestatem, in testamentis judiciorum : docere Jacob testimonia, et in lege sua lucem dare Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 45 22 Quia contra illum steterunt alieni, et propter invidiam circumdederunt illum homines in deserto, qui erant cum Dathan et Abiron, et congregatio Core in iracundia. +Sirach Sir 26 45 23 Vidit Dominus Deus, et non placuit illi, et consumpti sunt in impetu iracundiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 45 24 Fecit illis monstra, et consumpsit illos in flamma ignis. +Sirach Sir 26 45 25 Et addidit Aaron gloriam, et dedit illi hæreditatem, et primitias frugum terræ divisit illi. +Sirach Sir 26 45 26 Panem ipsis in primis paravit in satietatem : nam et sacrificia Domini edent, quæ dedit illi et semini ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 45 27 Ceterum in terra gentes non hæreditabit, et pars non est illi in gente : ipse est enim pars ejus, et hæreditas. +Sirach Sir 26 45 28 Phinees, filius Eleazari, tertius in gloria est, imitando eum in timore Domini, +Sirach Sir 26 45 29 et stare in reverentia gentis : in bonitate et alacritate animæ suæ placuit Deo pro Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 45 30 Ideo statuit illi testamentum pacis, principem sanctorum et gentis suæ, ut sit illi et semini ejus sacerdotii dignitas in æternum. +Sirach Sir 26 45 31 Et testamentum David regi filio Jesse de tribu Juda, hæreditas ipsi et semini ejus : ut daret sapientiam in cor nostrum, judicare gentem suam in justitia, ne abolerentur bona ipsorum : et gloriam ipsorum in gentem eorum æternam fecit. +Sirach Sir 26 46 1 Fortis in bello Jesus Nave, successor Moysi in prophetis, qui fuit magnus secundum nomen suum, +Sirach Sir 26 46 2 maximus in salutem electorum Dei, expugnare insurgentes hostes, ut consequeretur hæreditatem Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 46 3 Quam gloriam adeptus est in tollendo manus suas, et jactando contra civitates rhomphæas ! +Sirach Sir 26 46 4 Quis ante illum sic restitit ? nam hostes ipse Dominus perduxit. +Sirach Sir 26 46 5 An non in iracundia ejus impeditus est sol, et una dies facta est quasi duo ? +Sirach Sir 26 46 6 Invocavit Altissimum potentem, in oppugnando inimicos undique : et audivit illum magnus et sanctus Deus, in saxis grandinis virtutis valde fortis. +Sirach Sir 26 46 7 Impetum fecit contra gentem hostilem, et in descensu perdidit contrarios : +Sirach Sir 26 46 8 ut cognoscant gentes potentiam ejus, quia contra Deum pugnare non est facile. Et secutus est a tergo potentis : +Sirach Sir 26 46 9 et in diebus Moysi misericordiam fecit, ipse, et Caleb filius Jephone, stare contra hostem, et prohibere gentem a peccatis, et perfringere murmur malitiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 46 10 Et ipsi duo constituti a periculo liberati sunt a numero sexcentorum millium peditum, inducere illos in hæreditatem, in terram quæ manat lac et mel. +Sirach Sir 26 46 11 Et dedit Dominus ipsi Caleb fortitudinem, et usque in senectutem permansit illi virtus, ut ascenderet in excelsum terræ locum, et semen ipsius obtinuit hæreditatem, +Sirach Sir 26 46 12 ut viderent omnes filii Israël quia bonum est obsequi sancto Deo. +Sirach Sir 26 46 13 Et judices singuli suo nomine, quorum non est corruptum cor, qui non aversi sunt a Domino, +Sirach Sir 26 46 14 ut sit memoria illorum in benedictione, et ossa eorum pullulent de loco suo : +Sirach Sir 26 46 15 et nomen eorum permaneat in æternum, permanens ad filios illorum, sanctorum virorum gloria. +Sirach Sir 26 46 16 Dilectus a Domino Deo suo Samuel, propheta Domini, renovavit imperium, et unxit principes in gente sua. +Sirach Sir 26 46 17 In lege Domini congregationem judicavit, et vidit Deus Jacob : et in fide sua probatus est propheta, +Sirach Sir 26 46 18 et cognitus est in verbis suis fidelis, quia vidit Deum lucis. +Sirach Sir 26 46 19 Et invocavit Dominum omnipotentem, in oppugnando hostes circumstantes undique, in oblatione agni inviolati. +Sirach Sir 26 46 20 Et intonuit de cælo Dominus, et in sonitu magno auditam fecit vocem suam : +Sirach Sir 26 46 21 et contrivit principes Tyriorum, et omnes duces Philisthiim : +Sirach Sir 26 46 22 et ante tempus finis vitæ suæ et sæculi, testimonium præbuit in conspectu Domini et christi : pecunias et usque ad calceamenta ab omni carne non accepit, et non accusavit illum homo. +Sirach Sir 26 46 23 Et post hoc dormivit : et notum fecit regi, et ostendit illi finem vitæ suæ : et exaltavit vocem suam de terra in prophetia, delere impietatem gentis. +Sirach Sir 26 47 1 Post hæc surrexit Nathan, propheta in diebus David. +Sirach Sir 26 47 2 Et quasi adeps separatus a carne, sic David a filiis Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 47 3 Cum leonibus lusit quasi cum agnis, et in ursis similiter fecit sicut in agnis ovium, in juventute sua. +Sirach Sir 26 47 4 Numquid non occidit gigantem, et abstulit opprobrium de gente ? +Sirach Sir 26 47 5 In tollendo manum, saxo fundæ dejecit exsultationem Goliæ : +Sirach Sir 26 47 6 nam invocavit Dominum omnipotentem, et dedit in dextera ejus tollere hominem fortem in bello, et exaltare cornu gentis suæ. +Sirach Sir 26 47 7 Sic in decem millibus glorificavit eum : et laudavit eum in benedictionibus Domini, in offerendo illi coronam gloriæ : +Sirach Sir 26 47 8 contrivit enim inimicos undique, et extirpavit Philisthiim contrarios usque in hodiernum diem : contrivit cornu ipsorum usque in æternum. +Sirach Sir 26 47 9 In omni opere dedit confessionem Sancto, et Excelso in verbo gloriæ. +Sirach Sir 26 47 10 De omni corde suo laudavit Dominum : et dilexit Deum, qui fecit illum, et dedit illi contra inimicos potentiam : +Sirach Sir 26 47 11 et stare fecit cantores contra altare, et in sono eorum dulces fecit modos. +Sirach Sir 26 47 12 Et dedit in celebrationibus decus, et ornavit tempora usque ad consummationem vitæ, ut laudarent nomen sanctum Domini, et amplificarent mane Dei sanctitatem. +Sirach Sir 26 47 13 Dominus purgavit peccata ipsius, et exaltavit in æternum cornu ejus : et dedit illi testamentum regni, et sedem gloriæ in Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 47 14 Post ipsum surrexit filius sensatus, et propter illum dejecit omnem potentiam inimicorum. +Sirach Sir 26 47 15 Salomon imperavit in diebus pacis, cui subjecit Deus omnes hostes, ut conderet domum in nomine suo, et pararet sanctitatem in sempiternum. Quemadmodum eruditus es in juventute tua, +Sirach Sir 26 47 16 et impletus es, quasi flumen, sapientia, et terram retexit anima tua. +Sirach Sir 26 47 17 Et replesti in comparationibus ænigmata : ad insulas longe divulgatum est nomen tuum, et dilectus es in pace tua. +Sirach Sir 26 47 18 In cantilenis, et proverbiis, et comparationibus, et interpretationibus, miratæ sunt terræ : +Sirach Sir 26 47 19 et in nomine Domini Dei, cui est cognomen Deus Israël. +Sirach Sir 26 47 20 Collegisti quasi auricalcum aurum, et ut plumbum complesti argentum : +Sirach Sir 26 47 21 et inclinasti femora tua mulieribus : potestatem habuisti in corpore tuo. +Sirach Sir 26 47 22 Dedisti maculam in gloria tua, et profanasti semen tuum, inducere iracundiam ad liberos tuos, et incitari stultitiam tuam : +Sirach Sir 26 47 23 ut faceres imperium bipartitum, et ex Ephraim imperare imperium durum. +Sirach Sir 26 47 24 Deus autem non derelinquet misericordiam suam : et non corrumpet, nec delebit opera sua, neque perdet a stirpe nepotes electi sui, et semen ejus qui diligit Dominum non corrumpet. +Sirach Sir 26 47 25 Dedit autem reliquum Jacob, et David de ipsa stirpe. +Sirach Sir 26 47 26 Et finem habuit Salomon cum patribus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 47 27 Et dereliquit post se de semine suo, gentis stultitiam, +Sirach Sir 26 47 28 et imminutum a prudentia, Roboam, qui avertit gentem consilio suo : +Sirach Sir 26 47 29 et Jeroboam filium Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israël, et dedit viam peccandi Ephraim : et plurima redundaverunt peccata ipsorum. +Sirach Sir 26 47 30 Valde averterunt illos a terra sua. +Sirach Sir 26 47 31 Et quæsivit omnes nequitias, usque dum perveniret ad illos defensio, et ab omnibus peccatis liberavit eos. +Sirach Sir 26 48 1 Et surrexit Elias propheta quasi ignis, et verbum ipsius quasi facula ardebat. +Sirach Sir 26 48 2 Qui induxit in illos famem : et irritantes illum invidia sua pauci facti sunt : non enim poterant sustinere præcepta Domini. +Sirach Sir 26 48 3 Verbo Domini continuit cælum, et dejecit de cælo ignem ter. +Sirach Sir 26 48 4 Sic amplificatus est Elias in mirabilibus suis. Et quis potest similiter sic gloriari tibi ? +Sirach Sir 26 48 5 qui sustulisti mortuum ab inferis de sorte mortis, in verbo Domini Dei : +Sirach Sir 26 48 6 qui dejecisti reges ad pernicem, et confregisti facile potentiam ipsorum, et gloriosos de lecto suo : +Sirach Sir 26 48 7 qui audis in Sina judicium, et in Horeb judicia defensionis : +Sirach Sir 26 48 8 qui ungis reges ad pœnitentiam, et prophetas facis successores post te : +Sirach Sir 26 48 9 qui receptus es in turbine ignis, in curru equorum igneorum : +Sirach Sir 26 48 10 qui scriptus es in judiciis temporum, lenire iracundiam Domini, conciliare cor patris ad filium, et restituere tribus Jacob. +Sirach Sir 26 48 11 Beati sunt qui te viderunt, et in amicitia tua decorati sunt. +Sirach Sir 26 48 12 Nam nos vita vivimus tantum : post mortem autem non erit tale nomen nostrum. +Sirach Sir 26 48 13 Elias quidem in turbine tectus est, et in Eliseo completus est spiritus ejus : in diebus suis non pertimuit principem, et potentia nemo vicit illum : +Sirach Sir 26 48 14 nec superavit illum verbum aliquod, et mortuum prophetavit corpus ejus. +Sirach Sir 26 48 15 In vita sua fecit monstra, et in morte mirabilia operatus est. +Sirach Sir 26 48 16 In omnibus istis non pœnituit populus, et non recesserunt a peccatis suis, usque dum ejecti sunt de terra sua, et dispersi sunt in omnem terram : +Sirach Sir 26 48 17 et relicta est gens perpauca, et princeps in domo David. +Sirach Sir 26 48 18 Quidam ipsorum fecerunt quod placeret Deo : alii autem multa commiserunt peccata. +Sirach Sir 26 48 19 Ezechias munivit civitatem suam, et induxit in medium ipsius aquam : et fodit ferro rupem, et ædificavit ad aquam puteum. +Sirach Sir 26 48 20 In diebus ipsius ascendit Sennacherib, et misit Rabsacen, et sustulit manum suam contra illos : et extulit manum suam in Sion, et superbus factus est potentia sua. +Sirach Sir 26 48 21 Tunc mota sunt corda et manus ipsorum : et doluerunt quasi parturientes mulieres. +Sirach Sir 26 48 22 Et invocaverunt Dominum misericordem, et expandentes manus suas extulerunt ad cælum : et Sanctus, Dominus Deus, audivit cito vocem ipsorum. +Sirach Sir 26 48 23 Non est commemoratus peccatorum illorum, neque dedit illos inimicis suis : sed purgavit eos in manu Isaiæ sancti prophetæ. +Sirach Sir 26 48 24 Dejecit castra Assyriorum, et contrivit illos angelus Domini : +Sirach Sir 26 48 25 nam fecit Ezechias quod placuit Deo, et fortiter ivit in via David patris sui, quam mandavit illi Isaias, propheta magnus, et fidelis in conspectu Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 48 26 In diebus ipsius retro rediit sol, et addidit regi vitam. +Sirach Sir 26 48 27 Spiritu magno vidit ultima, et consolatus est lugentes in Sion usque in sempiternum. +Sirach Sir 26 48 28 Ostendit futura, et abscondita antequam evenirent. +Sirach Sir 26 49 1 Memoria Josiæ in compositionem odoris facta opus pigmentarii. +Sirach Sir 26 49 2 In omni ore quasi mel indulcabitur ejus memoria, et ut musica in convivio vini. +Sirach Sir 26 49 3 Ipse est directus divinitus in pœnitentiam gentis, et tulit abominationes impietatis. +Sirach Sir 26 49 4 Et gubernavit ad Dominum cor ipsius, et in diebus peccatorum corroboravit pietatem. +Sirach Sir 26 49 5 Præter David et Ezechiam et Josiam, omnes peccatum commiserunt : +Sirach Sir 26 49 6 nam reliquerunt legem Altissimi reges Juda, et contempserunt timorem Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 49 7 Dederunt enim regnum suum aliis, et gloriam suam alienigenæ genti. +Sirach Sir 26 49 8 Incenderunt electam sanctitatis civitatem, et desertas fecerunt vias ipsius in manu Jeremiæ. +Sirach Sir 26 49 9 Nam male tractaverunt illum qui a ventre matris consecratus est propheta, evertere, et eruere, et perdere, et iterum ædificare, et renovare : +Sirach Sir 26 49 10 Ezechiel, qui vidit conspectum gloriæ quam ostendit illi in curru cherubim. +Sirach Sir 26 49 11 Nam commemoratus est inimicorum in imbre, benefacere illis qui ostenderunt rectas vias. +Sirach Sir 26 49 12 Et duodecim prophetarum ossa pullulent de loco suo : nam corroboraverunt Jacob, et redemerunt se in fide virtutis. +Sirach Sir 26 49 13 Quomodo amplificemus Zorobabel ? nam et ipse quasi signum in dextera manu : +Sirach Sir 26 49 14 sic et Jesum filium Josedec, qui in diebus suis ædificaverunt domum, et exaltaverunt templum sanctum Domino, paratum in gloriam sempiternam. +Sirach Sir 26 49 15 Et Nehemias in memoriam multi temporis, qui erexit nobis muros eversos, et stare fecit portas et seras, qui erexit domos nostras. +Sirach Sir 26 49 16 Nemo natus est in terra qualis Henoch, nam et ipse receptus est a terra : +Sirach Sir 26 49 17 neque ut Joseph, qui natus est homo princeps fratrum, firmamentum gentis, rector fratrum, stabilimentum populi : +Sirach Sir 26 49 18 et ossa ipsius visitata sunt, et post mortem prophetaverunt. +Sirach Sir 26 49 19 Seth et Sem apud homines gloriam adepti sunt, et super omnem animam in origine Adam. +Sirach Sir 26 50 1 Simon, Oniæ filius, sacerdos magnus, qui in vita sua suffulsit domum, et in diebus suis corroboravit templum. +Sirach Sir 26 50 2 Templi etiam altitudo ab ipso fundata est, duplex ædificatio, et excelsi parietes templi. +Sirach Sir 26 50 3 In diebus ipsius emanaverunt putei aquarum, et quasi mare adimpleti sunt supra modum. +Sirach Sir 26 50 4 Qui curavit gentem suam, et liberavit eam a perditione : +Sirach Sir 26 50 5 qui prævaluit amplificare civitatem, qui adeptus est gloriam in conversatione gentis, et ingressum domus et atrii amplificavit. +Sirach Sir 26 50 6 Quasi stella matutina in medio nebulæ, et quasi luna plena, in diebus suis lucet : +Sirach Sir 26 50 7 et quasi sol refulgens, sic ille effulsit in templo Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 50 8 Quasi arcus refulgens inter nebulas gloriæ, et quasi flos rosarum in diebus vernis, et quasi lilia quæ sunt in transitu aquæ, et quasi thus redolens in diebus æstatis : +Sirach Sir 26 50 9 quasi ignis effulgens, et thus ardens in igne : +Sirach Sir 26 50 10 quasi vas auri solidum, ornatum omni lapide pretioso : +Sirach Sir 26 50 11 quasi oliva pullulans, et cypressus in altitudinem se extollens, in accipiendo ipsum stolam gloriæ, et vestiri eum in consummationem virtutis. +Sirach Sir 26 50 12 In ascensu altaris sancti gloriam dedit sanctitatis amictum. +Sirach Sir 26 50 13 In accipiendo autem partes de manu sacerdotum, et ipse stans juxta aram : et circa illum corona fratrum : quasi plantatio cedri in monte Libano, +Sirach Sir 26 50 14 sic circa illum steterunt quasi rami palmæ : et omnes filii Aaron in gloria sua. +Sirach Sir 26 50 15 Oblatio autem Domini in manibus ipsorum coram omni synagoga Israël : et consummatione fungens in ara, amplificare oblationem excelsi Regis, +Sirach Sir 26 50 16 porrexit manum suam in libatione, et libavit de sanguine uvæ. +Sirach Sir 26 50 17 Effudit in fundamento altaris odorem divinum excelso Principi. +Sirach Sir 26 50 18 Tunc exclamaverunt filii Aaron, in tubis productilibus sonuerunt : et auditam fecerunt vocem magnam in memoriam coram Deo. +Sirach Sir 26 50 19 Tunc omnis populus simul properaverunt, et ceciderunt in faciem super terram, adorare Dominum Deum suum, et dare preces omnipotenti Deo excelso. +Sirach Sir 26 50 20 Et amplificaverunt psallentes in vocibus suis, et in magna domo auctus est sonus suavitatis plenus. +Sirach Sir 26 50 21 Et rogavit populus Dominum excelsum in prece, usque dum perfectus est honor Domini, et munus suum perfecerunt. +Sirach Sir 26 50 22 Tunc descendens, manus suas extulit in omne congregationem filiorum Israël, dare gloriam Deo a labiis suis, et in nomine ipsius gloriari : +Sirach Sir 26 50 23 et iteravit orationem suam, volens ostendere virtutem Dei. +Sirach Sir 26 50 24 Et nunc orate Deum omnium, qui magna fecit in omni terra, qui auxit dies nostros a ventre matris nostræ, et fecit nobiscum secundum suam misericordiam : +Sirach Sir 26 50 25 det nobis jucunditatem cordis, et fieri pacem in diebus nostris in Israël per dies sempiternos : +Sirach Sir 26 50 26 credere Israël nobiscum esse Dei misericordiam, ut liberet nos in diebus suis. +Sirach Sir 26 50 27 Duas gentes odit anima mea : tertia autem non est gens quam oderim : +Sirach Sir 26 50 28 qui sedent in monte Seir, et Philisthiim, et stultus populus qui habitat in Sichimis. +Sirach Sir 26 50 29 Doctrinam sapientiæ et disciplinæ scripsit in codice isto Jesus, filius Sirach, Jerosolymita, qui renovavit sapientiam de corde suo. +Sirach Sir 26 50 30 Beatus qui in istis versatur bonis : qui ponit illa in corde suo, sapiens erit semper. +Sirach Sir 26 50 31 Si enim hæc fecerit, ad omnia valebit, quia lux Dei vestigium ejus est. +Sirach Sir 26 51 1 Oratio Jesu filii Sirach. Confitebor tibi, Domine rex, et collaudabo te Deum salvatorem meum. +Sirach Sir 26 51 2 Confitebor nomini tuo, quoniam adjutor et protector factus es mihi, +Sirach Sir 26 51 3 et liberasti corpus meum a perditione : a laqueo linguæ iniquæ, et a labiis operantium mendacium : et in conspectu astantium factus es mihi adjutor. +Sirach Sir 26 51 4 Et liberasti me, secundum multitudinem misericordiæ nominis tui, a rugientibus præparatis ad escam : +Sirach Sir 26 51 5 de manibus quærentium animam meam, et de portis tribulationum quæ circumdederunt me ; +Sirach Sir 26 51 6 a pressura flammæ quæ circumdedit me, et in medio ignis non sum æstuatus ; +Sirach Sir 26 51 7 de altitudine ventris inferi, et a lingua coinquinata, et a verbo mendacii, a rege iniquo, et a lingua injusta. +Sirach Sir 26 51 8 Laudabit usque ad mortem anima mea Dominum, +Sirach Sir 26 51 9 et vita mea appropinquans erat in inferno deorsum. +Sirach Sir 26 51 10 Circumdederunt me undique, et non erat qui adjuvaret : respiciens eram ad adjutorium hominum, et non erat. +Sirach Sir 26 51 11 Memoratus sum misericordiæ tuæ Domine, et operationis tuæ, quæ a sæculo sunt : +Sirach Sir 26 51 12 quoniam eruis sustinentes te, Domine, et liberas eos de manibus gentium. +Sirach Sir 26 51 13 Exaltasti super terram habitationem meam, et pro morte defluente deprecatus sum. +Sirach Sir 26 51 14 Invocavi Dominum patrem Domini mei, ut non derelinquat me in die tribulationis meæ, et in tempore superborum, sine adjutorio. +Sirach Sir 26 51 15 Laudabo nomen tuum assidue, et collaudabo illud in confessione : et exaudita est oratio mea, +Sirach Sir 26 51 16 et liberasti me de perditione, et eripuisti me de tempore iniquo. +Sirach Sir 26 51 17 Propterea confitebor, et laudem dicam tibi, et benedicam nomini Domini. +Sirach Sir 26 51 18 Cum adhuc junior essem, priusquam oberrarem, quæsivi sapientiam palam in oratione mea. +Sirach Sir 26 51 19 Ante templum postulabam pro illis, et usque in novissimis inquiram eam : et effloruit tamquam præcox uva. +Sirach Sir 26 51 20 Lætatum est cor meum in ea : ambulavit pes meus iter rectum : a juventute mea investigabam eam. +Sirach Sir 26 51 21 Inclinavi modico aurem meam, et excepi illam. +Sirach Sir 26 51 22 Multam inveni in meipso sapientiam, et multum profeci in ea. +Sirach Sir 26 51 23 Danti mihi sapientiam dabo gloriam : +Sirach Sir 26 51 24 consiliatus sum enim ut facerem illam. Zelatus sum bonum, et non confundar. +Sirach Sir 26 51 25 Colluctata est anima mea in illa, et in faciendo eam confirmatus sum. +Sirach Sir 26 51 26 Manus meas extendi in altum, et insipientiam ejus luxi ; +Sirach Sir 26 51 27 animam meam direxi ad illam, et in agnitione inveni eam. +Sirach Sir 26 51 28 Possedi cum ipsa cor ab initio : propter hoc, non derelinquar. +Sirach Sir 26 51 29 Venter meus conturbatus est quærendo illam : propterea bonam possidebo possessionem. +Sirach Sir 26 51 30 Dedit mihi Dominus linguam mercedem meam, et in ipsa laudabo eum. +Sirach Sir 26 51 31 Appropiate ad me, indocti, et congregate vos in domum disciplinæ. +Sirach Sir 26 51 32 Quid adhuc retardatis ? et quid dicitis in his ? animæ vestræ sitiunt vehementer. +Sirach Sir 26 51 33 Aperui os meum, et locutus sum : Comparate vobis sine argento, +Sirach Sir 26 51 34 et collum vestrum subjicite jugo : et suscipiat anima vestra disciplinam : in proximo est enim invenire eam. +Sirach Sir 26 51 35 Videte oculis vestris, quia modicum laboravi, et inveni mihi multam requiem. +Sirach Sir 26 51 36 Assumite disciplinam in multo numero argenti, et copiosum aurum possidete in ea. +Sirach Sir 26 51 37 Lætetur anima vestra in misericordia ejus, et non confundemini in laude ipsius. +Sirach Sir 26 51 38 Operamini opus vestrum ante tempus, et dabit vobis mercedem vestram in tempore suo. +Baruch Bar 30 1 1 Et hæc verba libri quæ scripsit Baruch filius Neriæ, filii Maasiæ, filii Sedeciæ, filii Sedei, filii Helciæ, in Babylonia, +Baruch Bar 30 1 2 in anno quinto, in septimo die mensis, in tempore quo ceperunt Chaldæi Jerusalem, et succenderunt eam igni. +Baruch Bar 30 1 3 Et legit Baruch verba libri hujus ad aures Jechoniæ filii Joakim regis Juda, et ad aures universi populi venientis ad librum, +Baruch Bar 30 1 4 et ad aures potentium, filiorum regum, et ad aures presbyterorum, et ad aures populi, a minimo usque ad maximum eorum, omnium habitantium in Babylonia, ad flumen Sodi. +Baruch Bar 30 1 5 Qui audientes plorabant, et jejunabant, et orabant in conspectu Domini. +Baruch Bar 30 1 6 Et collegerunt pecuniam, secundum quod potuit uniuscujusque manus, +Baruch Bar 30 1 7 et miserunt in Jerusalem ad Joakim filium Helciæ filii Salom sacerdotem, et ad sacerdotes, et ad omnem populum qui inventi sunt cum eo in Jerusalem : +Baruch Bar 30 1 8 cum acciperet vasa templi Domini, quæ ablata fuerant de templo, revocare in terram Juda, decima die mensis Sivan, vasa argentea quæ fecit Sedecias filius Josiæ rex Juda, +Baruch Bar 30 1 9 posteaquam cepisset Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis Jechoniam, et principes, et cunctos potentes, et populum terræ, ab Jerusalem, et duxit eos vinctos in Babylonem. +Baruch Bar 30 1 10 Et dixerunt : Ecce misimus ad vos pecunias, de quibus emite holocautomata et thus : et facite manna, et offerte pro peccato, ad aram Domini Dei nostri : +Baruch Bar 30 1 11 et orate pro vita Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis, et pro vita Baltassar filii ejus, ut sint dies eorum sicut dies cæli super terram : +Baruch Bar 30 1 12 et ut det Dominus virtutem nobis, et illuminet oculos nostros, ut vivamus sub umbra Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis, et sub umbra Baltassar filii ejus, et serviamus eis multis diebus, et inveniamus gratiam in conspectu eorum. +Baruch Bar 30 1 13 Et pro nobis ipsis orate ad Dominum Deum nostrum, quia peccavimus Domino Deo nostro, et non est aversus furor ejus a nobis usque in hunc diem. +Baruch Bar 30 1 14 Et legite librum istum quem misimus ad vos recitari in templo Domini, in die solemni et in die opportuno : +Baruch Bar 30 1 15 et dicetis : Domino Deo nostro justitia, nobis autem confusio faciei nostræ, sicut est dies hæc omni Juda, et habitantibus in Jerusalem : +Baruch Bar 30 1 16 regibus nostris, et principibus nostris, et sacerdotibus nostris, et prophetis nostris, et patribus nostris. +Baruch Bar 30 1 17 Peccavimus ante Dominum Deum nostrum, et non credidimus, diffidentes in eum : +Baruch Bar 30 1 18 et non fuimus subjectibiles illi, et non audivimus vocem Domini Dei nostri, ut ambularemus in mandatis ejus, quæ dedit nobis. +Baruch Bar 30 1 19 A die qua eduxit patres nostros de terra Ægypti, usque ad diem hanc, eramus incredibiles ad Dominum Deum nostrum : et dissipati recessimus, ne audiremus vocem ipsius : +Baruch Bar 30 1 20 et adhæserunt nobis multa mala et maledictiones quæ constituit Dominus Moysi servo suo, qui eduxit patres nostros de terra Ægypti, dare nobis terram fluentem lac et mel, sicut hodierna die. +Baruch Bar 30 1 21 Et non audivimus vocem Domini Dei nostri, secundum omnia verba prophetarum quos misit ad nos : +Baruch Bar 30 1 22 et abivimus unusquisque in sensum cordis nostri maligni, operari diis alienis, facientes mala ante oculos Domini Dei nostri. +Baruch Bar 30 2 1 Propter quod statuit Dominus Deus noster verbum suum, quod locutus est ad nos, et ad judices nostros qui judicaverunt Israël, et ad reges nostros, et ad principes nostros, et ad omnem Israël et Juda : +Baruch Bar 30 2 2 ut adduceret Dominus super nos mala magna, quæ non sunt facta sub cælo quemadmodum facta sunt in Jerusalem, secundum quæ scripta sunt in lege Moysi, +Baruch Bar 30 2 3 et manducaret homo carnes filii sui et carnes filiæ suæ. +Baruch Bar 30 2 4 Et dedit eos sub manu regum omnium qui sunt in circuitu nostro, in improperium et in desolationem in omnibus populis in quibus nos dispersit Dominus : +Baruch Bar 30 2 5 et facti sumus subtus, et non supra, quia peccavimus Domino Deo nostro, non obaudiendo voci ipsius. +Baruch Bar 30 2 6 Domino Deo nostro justitia, nobis autem et patribus nostris confusio faciei, sicut est dies hæc : +Baruch Bar 30 2 7 quia locutus est Dominus super nos omnia mala hæc quæ venerunt super nos : +Baruch Bar 30 2 8 et non sumus deprecati faciem Domini Dei nostri, ut reverteremur unusquisque nostrum a viis nostris pessimis. +Baruch Bar 30 2 9 Et vigilavit Dominus in malis, et adduxit ea super nos : quia justus est Dominus in omnibus operibus suis quæ mandavit nobis, +Baruch Bar 30 2 10 et non audivimus vocem ipsius ut iremus in præceptis Domini, quæ dedit ante faciem nostram. +Baruch Bar 30 2 11 Et nunc, Domine Deus Israël, qui eduxisti populum tuum de terra Ægypti in manu valida, et in signis, et in prodigiis, et in virtute tua magna, et in brachio excelso, et fecisti tibi nomen sicut est dies iste : +Baruch Bar 30 2 12 peccavimus, impie egimus, inique gessimus, Domine Deus noster, in omnibus justitiis tuis. +Baruch Bar 30 2 13 Avertatur ira tua a nobis, quia derelicti sumus pauci inter gentes ubi dispersisti nos. +Baruch Bar 30 2 14 Exaudi, Domine, preces nostras et orationes nostras, et educ nos propter te, et da nobis invenire gratiam ante faciem eorum qui nos abduxerunt : +Baruch Bar 30 2 15 ut sciat omnis terra quia tu es Dominus Deus noster, et quia nomen tuum invocatum est super Israël, et super genus ipsius. +Baruch Bar 30 2 16 Respice, Domine, de domo sancta tua in nos, et inclina aurem tuam, et exaudi nos. +Baruch Bar 30 2 17 Aperi oculos tuos et vide : quia non mortui qui sunt in inferno, quorum spiritus acceptus est a visceribus suis, dabunt honorem et justificationem Domino : +Baruch Bar 30 2 18 sed anima quæ tristis est super magnitudine mali, et incedit curva et infirma, et oculi deficientes, et anima esuriens, dat tibi gloriam et justitiam Domino. +Baruch Bar 30 2 19 Quia non secundum justitias patrum nostrorum nos fundimus preces et petimus misericordiam ante conspectum tuum, Domine Deus noster : +Baruch Bar 30 2 20 sed quia misisti iram tuam et furorem tuum super nos, sicut locutus es in manu puerorum tuorum prophetarum, dicens : +Baruch Bar 30 2 21 Sic dicit Dominus : Inclinate humerum vestrum et cervicem vestram, et opera facite regi Babylonis, et sedebitis in terra quam dedi patribus vestris. +Baruch Bar 30 2 22 Quod si non audieritis vocem Domini Dei vestri, operari regi Babyloniæ, defectionem vestram faciam de civitatibus Juda, et a foris Jerusalem, +Baruch Bar 30 2 23 et auferam a vobis vocem jucunditatis et vocem gaudii, et vocem sponsi et vocem sponsæ, et erit omnis terra sine vestigio ab inhabitantibus eam. +Baruch Bar 30 2 24 Et non audierunt vocem tuam, ut operarentur regi Babylonis : et statuisti verba tua, quæ locutus es in manibus puerorum tuorum prophetarum, ut transferrentur ossa regum nostrorum et ossa patrum nostrorum de loco suo : +Baruch Bar 30 2 25 et ecce projecta sunt in calore solis et in gelu noctis, et mortui sunt in doloribus pessimis, in fame et in gladio, et in emissione. +Baruch Bar 30 2 26 Et posuisti templum in quo invocatum est nomen tuum in ipso sicut hæc dies, propter iniquitatem domus Israël et domus Juda. +Baruch Bar 30 2 27 Et fecisti in nobis, Domine Deus noster, secundum omnem bonitatem tuam et secundum omnem miserationem tuam illam magnam : +Baruch Bar 30 2 28 sicut locutus es in manu pueri tui Moysi, in die qua præcepisti ei scribere legem tuam coram filiis Israël, +Baruch Bar 30 2 29 dicens : Si non audieritis vocem meam, multitudo hæc magna convertetur in minimam inter gentes, quo ego eos dispergam : +Baruch Bar 30 2 30 quia scio quod me non audiet populus : populus est enim dura cervice. Et convertetur ad cor suum in terra captivitatis suæ, +Baruch Bar 30 2 31 et scient quia ego sum Dominus Deus eorum : et dabo eis cor, et intelligent ; aures, et audient : +Baruch Bar 30 2 32 et laudabunt me in terra captivitatis suæ, et memores erunt nominis mei, +Baruch Bar 30 2 33 et avertent se a dorso suo duro, et a malignitatibus suis : quia reminiscentur viam patrum suorum, qui peccaverunt in me. +Baruch Bar 30 2 34 Et revocabo illos in terram quam juravi patribus eorum, Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob : et dominabuntur ejus, et multiplicabo eos, et non minorabuntur : +Baruch Bar 30 2 35 et statuam illis testamentum alterum sempiternum, ut sim illis in Deum, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum : et non movebo amplius populum meum, filios Israël, a terra quam dedi illis. +Baruch Bar 30 3 1 Et nunc, Domine omnipotens, Deus Israël, anima in angustiis, et spiritus anxius clamat ad te. +Baruch Bar 30 3 2 Audi, Domine, et miserere, quia Deus es misericors : et miserere nostri, quia peccavimus ante te : +Baruch Bar 30 3 3 quia tu sedes in sempiternum, et nos, peribimus in ævum ? +Baruch Bar 30 3 4 Domine omnipotens, Deus Israël, audi nunc orationem mortuorum Israël, et filiorum ipsorum qui peccaverunt ante te, et non audierunt vocem Domini Dei sui, et agglutinata sunt nobis mala. +Baruch Bar 30 3 5 Noli meminisse iniquitatum patrum nostrorum, sed memento manus tuæ et nominis tui in tempore isto : +Baruch Bar 30 3 6 quia tu es Dominus Deus noster, et laudabimus te, Domine : +Baruch Bar 30 3 7 quia propter hoc dedisti timorem tuum in cordibus nostris, et ut invocemus nomen tuum, et laudemus te in captivitate nostra, quia convertimur ab iniquitate patrum nostrorum, qui peccaverunt ante te. +Baruch Bar 30 3 8 Et ecce nos in captivitate nostra sumus hodie, qua nos dispersisti in improperium, et in maledictum, et in peccatum, secundum omnes iniquitates patrum nostrorum, qui recesserunt a te, Domine Deus noster. +Baruch Bar 30 3 9 Audi, Israël, mandata vitæ : auribus percipe, ut scias prudentiam. +Baruch Bar 30 3 10 Quid est, Israël, quod in terra inimicorum es, +Baruch Bar 30 3 11 inveterasti in terra aliena, coinquinatus es cum mortuis, deputatus es cum descendentibus in infernum ? +Baruch Bar 30 3 12 Dereliquisti fontem sapientiæ : +Baruch Bar 30 3 13 nam si in via Dei ambulasses, habitasses utique in pace sempiterna. +Baruch Bar 30 3 14 Disce ubi sit prudentia, ubi sit virtus, ubi sit intellectus, ut scias simul ubi sit longiturnitas vitæ et victus, ubi sit lumen oculorum, et pax. +Baruch Bar 30 3 15 Quis invenit locum ejus ? et quis intravit in thesauros ejus ? +Baruch Bar 30 3 16 Ubi sunt principes gentium, et qui dominantur super bestias quæ sunt super terram ? +Baruch Bar 30 3 17 qui in avibus cæli ludunt, +Baruch Bar 30 3 18 qui argentum thesaurizant, et aurum, in quo confidunt homines, et non est finis acquisitionis eorum ? qui argentum fabricant, et solliciti sunt, nec est inventio operum illorum ? +Baruch Bar 30 3 19 Exterminati sunt, et ad inferos descenderunt, et alii loco eorum surrexerunt. +Baruch Bar 30 3 20 Juvenes viderunt lumen, et habitaverunt super terram, viam autem disciplinæ ignoraverunt, +Baruch Bar 30 3 21 neque intellexerunt semitas ejus, neque filii eorum susceperunt eam : a facie ipsorum longe facta est ; +Baruch Bar 30 3 22 non est audita in terra Chanaan, neque visa est in Theman. +Baruch Bar 30 3 23 Filii quoque Agar, qui exquirunt prudentiam quæ de terra est, negotiatores Merrhæ et Theman, et fabulatores, et exquisitores prudentiæ et intelligentiæ : viam autem sapientiæ nescierunt, neque commemorati sunt semitas ejus. +Baruch Bar 30 3 24 O Israël, quam magna est domus Dei, et ingens locus possessionis ejus ! +Baruch Bar 30 3 25 magnus est, et non habet finem : excelsus, et immensus. +Baruch Bar 30 3 26 Ibi fuerunt gigantes nominati illi, qui ab initio fuerunt, statura magna, scientes bellum. +Baruch Bar 30 3 27 Non hos elegit Dominus, neque viam disciplinæ invenerunt : propterea perierunt, +Baruch Bar 30 3 28 et quoniam non habuerunt sapientiam, interierunt propter suam insipientiam. +Baruch Bar 30 3 29 Quis ascendit in cælum, et accepit eam, et eduxit eam de nubibus ? +Baruch Bar 30 3 30 Quis transfretavit mare, et invenit illam, et attulit illam super aurum electum ? +Baruch Bar 30 3 31 Non est qui possit scire vias ejus, neque qui exquirat semitas ejus : +Baruch Bar 30 3 32 sed qui scit universa novit eam, et adinvenit eam prudentia sua qui præparavit terram in æterno tempore : et replevit eam pecudibus et quadrupedibus +Baruch Bar 30 3 33 qui emittit lumen, et vadit, et vocavit illud, et obedit illi in tremore. +Baruch Bar 30 3 34 Stellæ autem dederunt lumen in custodiis suis, et lætatæ sunt : +Baruch Bar 30 3 35 vocatæ sunt, et dixerunt : Adsumus, et luxerunt ei cum jucunditate, qui fecit illas. +Baruch Bar 30 3 36 Hic est Deus noster, et non æstimabitur alius adversus eum. +Baruch Bar 30 3 37 Hic adinvenit omnem viam disciplinæ, et tradidit illam Jacob puero suo, et Israël dilecto suo. +Baruch Bar 30 3 38 Post hæc in terris visus est, et cum hominibus conversatus est. +Baruch Bar 30 4 1 Hic liber mandatorum Dei, et lex quæ est in æternum : omnes qui tenent eam pervenient ad vitam : qui autem dereliquerunt eam, in mortem. +Baruch Bar 30 4 2 Convertere, Jacob, et apprehende eam : ambula per viam ad splendorem ejus contra lumen ejus. +Baruch Bar 30 4 3 Ne tradas alteri gloriam tuam, et dignitatem tuam genti alienæ. +Baruch Bar 30 4 4 Beati sumus, Israël, quia quæ Deo placent manifesta sunt nobis. +Baruch Bar 30 4 5 Animæquior esto, populus Dei, memorabilis Israël : +Baruch Bar 30 4 6 venundati estis gentibus non in perditionem : sed propter quod in ira ad iracundiam provocastis Deum, traditi estis adversariis. +Baruch Bar 30 4 7 Exacerbastis enim eum qui fecit vos, Deum æternum, immolantes dæmoniis, et non Deo. +Baruch Bar 30 4 8 Obliti enim estis Deum qui nutrivit vos, et contristastis nutricem vestram Jerusalem. +Baruch Bar 30 4 9 Vidit enim iracundiam a Deo venientem vobis, et dixit : Audite, confines Sion : adduxit enim mihi Deus luctum magnum. +Baruch Bar 30 4 10 Vidi enim captivitatem populi mei, filiorum meorum et filiarum, quam superduxit illis Æternus. +Baruch Bar 30 4 11 Nutrivi enim illos cum jucunditate ; dimisi autem illos cum fletu et luctu. +Baruch Bar 30 4 12 Nemo gaudeat super me viduam et desolatam : a multis derelicta sum propter peccata filiorum meorum, quia declinaverunt a lege Dei. +Baruch Bar 30 4 13 Justitias autem ipsius nescierunt, nec ambulaverunt per vias mandatorum Dei, neque per semitas veritatis ejus cum justitia ingressi sunt. +Baruch Bar 30 4 14 Veniant confines Sion, et memorentur captivitatem filiorum et filiarum mearum, quam superduxit illis Æternus. +Baruch Bar 30 4 15 Adduxit enim super illos gentem de longinquo, gentem improbam, et alterius linguæ, +Baruch Bar 30 4 16 qui non sunt reveriti senem, neque puerorum miserti sunt, et abduxerunt dilectos viduæ, et a filiis unicam desolaverunt. +Baruch Bar 30 4 17 Ego autem, quid possum adjuvare vos ? +Baruch Bar 30 4 18 qui enim adduxit super vos mala, ipse vos eripiet de manibus inimicorum vestrorum. +Baruch Bar 30 4 19 Ambulate, filii, ambulate : ego enim derelicta sum sola. +Baruch Bar 30 4 20 Exui me stola pacis, indui autem me sacco obsecrationis, et clamabo ad Altissimum in diebus meis. +Baruch Bar 30 4 21 Animæquiores estote, filii ; clamate ad Dominum, et eripiet vos de manu principum inimicorum. +Baruch Bar 30 4 22 Ego enim speravi in æternum salutem vestram, et venit mihi gaudium a Sancto, super misericordia quæ veniet vobis ab æterno salutari nostro. +Baruch Bar 30 4 23 Emisi enim vos cum luctu et ploratu : reducet autem vos mihi Dominus cum gaudio et jucunditate in sempiternum. +Baruch Bar 30 4 24 Sicut enim viderunt vicinæ Sion captivitatem vestram a Deo, sic videbunt et in celeritate salutem vestram a Deo, quæ superveniet vobis cum honore magno et splendore æterno. +Baruch Bar 30 4 25 Filii, patienter sustinete iram quæ supervenit vobis : persecutus est enim te inimicus tuus : sed cito videbis perditionem ipsius, et super cervices ipsius ascendes. +Baruch Bar 30 4 26 Delicati mei ambulaverunt vias asperas : ducti sunt enim ut grex direptus ab inimicis. +Baruch Bar 30 4 27 Animæquiores estote, filii, et proclamate ad Dominum : erit enim memoria vestra ab eo qui duxit vos. +Baruch Bar 30 4 28 Sicut enim fuit sensus vester ut erraretis a Deo, decies tantum iterum convertentes requiretis eum : +Baruch Bar 30 4 29 qui enim induxit vobis mala, ipse rursum adducet vobis sempiternam jucunditatem cum salute vestra. +Baruch Bar 30 4 30 Animæquior esto, Jerusalem : exhortatur enim te, qui te nominavit. +Baruch Bar 30 4 31 Nocentes peribunt, qui te vexaverunt : et qui gratulati sunt in tua ruina, punientur. +Baruch Bar 30 4 32 Civitates quibus servierunt filii tui, punientur, et quæ accepit filios tuos. +Baruch Bar 30 4 33 Sicut enim gavisa est in tua ruina, et lætata est in casu tuo, sic contristabitur in sua desolatione, +Baruch Bar 30 4 34 et amputabitur exsultatio multitudinis ejus, et gaudimonium ejus erit in luctum. +Baruch Bar 30 4 35 Ignis enim superveniet ei ab Æterno in longiturnis diebus, et habitabitur a dæmoniis in multitudine temporis. +Baruch Bar 30 4 36 Circumspice, Jerusalem, ad orientem, et vide jucunditatem a Deo tibi venientem. +Baruch Bar 30 4 37 Ecce enim veniunt filii tui, quos dimisisti dispersos : veniunt collecti ab oriente usque ad occidentem, in verbo Sancti, gaudentes in honorem Dei. +Baruch Bar 30 5 1 Exue te, Jerusalem, stola luctus et vexationis tuæ, et indue te decore, et honore ejus, quæ a Deo tibi est, sempiternæ gloriæ. +Baruch Bar 30 5 2 Circumdabit te Deus diploide justitiæ, et imponet mitram capiti honoris æterni. +Baruch Bar 30 5 3 Deus enim ostendet splendorem suum in te, omni qui sub cælo est. +Baruch Bar 30 5 4 Nominabitur enim tibi nomen tuum a Deo in sempiternum : pax justitiæ, et honor pietatis. +Baruch Bar 30 5 5 Exsurge, Jerusalem, et sta in excelso : et circumspice ad orientem, et vide collectos filios tuos ab oriente sole usque ad occidentem, in verbo Sancti, gaudentes Dei memoria. +Baruch Bar 30 5 6 Exierunt enim abs te pedibus ducti ab inimicis : adducet autem illos Dominus ad te portatos in honore sicut filios regni : +Baruch Bar 30 5 7 constituit enim Deus humiliare omnem montem excelsum et rupes perennes, et convalles replere in æqualitatem terræ, ut ambulet Israël diligenter in honorem Dei. +Baruch Bar 30 5 8 Obumbraverunt autem et silvæ, et omne lignum suavitatis Israël ex mandato Dei. +Baruch Bar 30 5 9 Adducet enim Deus Israël cum jucunditate in lumine majestatis suæ, cum misericordia et justitia quæ est ex ipso. +Baruch Bar 30 6 1 Propter peccata quæ peccastis ante Deum, abducemini in Babyloniam captivi a Nabuchodonosor rege Babylonis. +Baruch Bar 30 6 2 Ingressi itaque in Babylonem, eritis ibi annis plurimis, et temporibus longis, usque ad generationes septem : post hoc autem educam vos inde cum pace. +Baruch Bar 30 6 3 Nunc autem videbitis in Babylonia deos aureos et argenteos, et lapideos et ligneos, in humeris portari, ostentantes metum gentibus. +Baruch Bar 30 6 4 Videte ergo ne et vos similes efficiamini factis alienis, et metuatis, et metus vos capiat in ipsis. +Baruch Bar 30 6 5 Visa itaque turba de retro et ab ante, adorantes dicite in cordibus vestris : Te oportet adorari, Domine. +Baruch Bar 30 6 6 Angelus enim meus vobiscum est : ipse autem exquiram animas vestras. +Baruch Bar 30 6 7 Nam lingua ipsorum polita a fabro ; ipsa etiam inaurata et inargentata : falsa sunt, et non possunt loqui. +Baruch Bar 30 6 8 Et sicut virgini amanti ornamenta, ita accepto auro fabricati sunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 9 Coronas certe aureas habent super capita sua dii illorum : unde subtrahunt sacerdotes ab eis aurum et argentum, et erogant illud in semetipsos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 10 Dant autem et ex ipso prostitutis, et meretrices ornant : et iterum cum receperint illud a meretricibus, ornant deos suos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 11 Hi autem non liberantur ab ærugine et tinea. +Baruch Bar 30 6 12 Opertis autem illis veste purpurea, extergunt faciem ipsorum propter pulverem domus qui est plurimus inter eos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 13 Sceptrum autem habet ut homo, sicut judex regionis, qui in se peccantem non interficit. +Baruch Bar 30 6 14 Habet etiam in manu gladium et securim, se autem de bello et a latronibus non liberat. Unde vobis notum sit quia non sunt dii : +Baruch Bar 30 6 15 non ergo timueritis eos. Sicut enim vas hominis confractum inutile efficitur, tales sunt et dii illorum. +Baruch Bar 30 6 16 Constitutis illis in domo, oculi eorum pleni sunt pulvere a pedibus introëuntium. +Baruch Bar 30 6 17 Et sicut alicui qui regem offendit circumseptæ sunt januæ, aut sicut ad sepulchrum adductum mortuum : ita tutantur sacerdotes ostia clausuris et seris, ne a latronibus expolientur. +Baruch Bar 30 6 18 Lucernas accendunt illis, et quidem multas, ex quibus nullam videre possunt : sunt autem sicut trabes in domo. +Baruch Bar 30 6 19 Corda vero eorum dicunt elingere serpentes qui de terra sunt, dum comedunt eos, et vestimentum ipsorum, et non sentiunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 20 Nigræ fiunt facies eorum a fumo qui in domo fit. +Baruch Bar 30 6 21 Supra corpus eorum et supra caput eorum volant noctuæ, et hirundines, et aves etiam, similiter et cattæ. +Baruch Bar 30 6 22 Unde sciatis quia non sunt dii : ne ergo timueritis eos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 23 Aurum etiam quod habent ad speciem est : nisi aliquis exterserit æruginem, non fulgebunt : neque enim dum conflarentur, sentiebant. +Baruch Bar 30 6 24 Ex omni pretio empta sunt, in quibus spiritus non inest ipsis. +Baruch Bar 30 6 25 Sine pedibus, in humeris portantur, ostentantes ignobilitatem suam hominibus : confundantur etiam qui colunt ea. +Baruch Bar 30 6 26 Propterea si ceciderint in terram, a semetipsis non consurgunt : neque si quis eum statuerit rectum, per semetipsum stabit : sed sicut mortuis munera eorum illis apponentur. +Baruch Bar 30 6 27 Hostias illorum vendunt sacerdotes ipsorum, et abutuntur : similiter et mulieres eorum decerpentes, neque infirmo, neque mendicanti, aliquid impertiunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 28 De sacrificiis eorum fœtæ et menstruatæ contingunt. Sciens itaque ex his quia non sunt dii, ne timeatis eos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 29 Unde enim vocantur dii ? quia mulieres apponunt diis argenteis, et aureis, et ligneis : +Baruch Bar 30 6 30 et in domibus eorum sacerdotes sedent habentes tunicas scissas, et capita et barbam rasam, quorum capita nuda sunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 31 Rugiunt autem clamantes contra deos suos sicut in cœna mortui. +Baruch Bar 30 6 32 Vestimenta eorum auferunt sacerdotes, et vestiunt uxores suas et filios suos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 33 Neque si quid mali patiuntur ab aliquo, neque si quid boni, poterunt retribuere : neque regem constituere possunt, neque auferre. +Baruch Bar 30 6 34 Similiter neque dare divitias possunt, neque malum retribuere. Si quis illis votum voverit et non reddiderit, neque hoc requirunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 35 Hominem a morte non liberant, neque infirmum a potentiori eripiunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 36 Hominem cæcum ad visum non restituunt ; de necessitate hominem non liberabunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 37 Viduæ non miserebuntur, neque orphanis benefacient. +Baruch Bar 30 6 38 Lapidibus de monte similes sunt dii illorum, lignei, et lapidei, et aurei, et argentei : qui autem colunt ea, confundentur. +Baruch Bar 30 6 39 Quomodo ergo æstimandum est aut dicendum illos esse deos ? +Baruch Bar 30 6 40 Adhuc enim ipsis Chaldæis non honorantibus ea : qui cum audierint mutum non posse loqui, offerunt illud ad Bel, postulantes ab eo loqui : +Baruch Bar 30 6 41 quasi possint sentire qui non habent motum ! Et ipsi, cum intellexerint, relinquent ea : sensum enim non habent ipsi dii illorum. +Baruch Bar 30 6 42 Mulieres autem circumdatæ funibus in viis sedent, succendentes ossa olivarum : +Baruch Bar 30 6 43 cum autem aliqua ex ipsis, attracta ab aliquo transeunte, dormierit cum eo, proximæ suæ exprobrat quod ea non sit digna habita, sicut ipsa, neque funis ejus diruptus sit. +Baruch Bar 30 6 44 Omnia autem quæ illi fiunt, falsa sunt : quomodo æstimandum aut dicendum est illos esse deos ? +Baruch Bar 30 6 45 A fabris autem et ab aurificibus facta sunt : nihil aliud erunt, nisi id quod volunt esse sacerdotes. +Baruch Bar 30 6 46 Artifices etiam ipsi, qui ea faciunt, non sunt multi temporis : numquid ergo possunt ea, quæ fabricata sunt ab ipsis, esse dii ? +Baruch Bar 30 6 47 Reliquerunt autem falsa et opprobrium postea futuris. +Baruch Bar 30 6 48 Nam cum supervenerit illis prælium et mala, cogitant sacerdotes apud se ubi se abscondant cum illis. +Baruch Bar 30 6 49 Quomodo ergo sentiri debeant quoniam dii sunt, qui nec de bello se liberant, neque de malis se eripiunt ? +Baruch Bar 30 6 50 Nam cum sint lignea, inaurata et inargentata, scietur postea quia falsa sunt ab universis gentibus et regibus : quæ manifesta sunt quia non sunt dii, sed opera manuum hominum, et nullum Dei opus cum illis. +Baruch Bar 30 6 51 Unde ergo notum est quia non sunt dii, sed opera manuum hominum, et nullum Dei opus in ipsis est. +Baruch Bar 30 6 52 Regem regioni non suscitant, neque pluviam hominibus dabunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 53 Judicium quoque non discernent, neque regiones liberabunt ab injuria, quia nihil possunt, sicut corniculæ inter medium cæli et terræ. +Baruch Bar 30 6 54 Etenim cum inciderit ignis in domum deorum ligneorum, argenteorum et aureorum, sacerdotes quidem ipsorum fugient, et liberabuntur : ipsi vero sicut trabes in medio comburentur. +Baruch Bar 30 6 55 Regi autem et bello non resistent. Quomodo ergo æstimandum est aut recipiendum quia dii sunt ? +Baruch Bar 30 6 56 Non a furibus, neque a latronibus se liberabunt dii lignei, et lapidei, et inaurati, et inargentati : quibus hi qui fortiores sunt, +Baruch Bar 30 6 57 aurum et argentum, et vestimentum quo operti sunt, auferent illis, et abibunt, nec sibi auxilium ferent. +Baruch Bar 30 6 58 Itaque melius est esse regem ostentantem virtutem suam, aut vas in domo utile, in quo gloriabitur qui possidet illud, vel ostium in domo, quod custodit quæ in ipsa sunt, quam falsi dii. +Baruch Bar 30 6 59 Sol quidem et luna ac sidera, cum sint splendida et emissa ad utilitates, obaudiunt : +Baruch Bar 30 6 60 similiter et fulgur cum apparuerit, perspicuum est : idipsum autem et spiritus in omni regione spirat : +Baruch Bar 30 6 61 et nubes, quibus cum imperatum fuerit a Deo perambulare universum orbem, perficiunt quod imperatum est eis : +Baruch Bar 30 6 62 ignis etiam missus desuper, ut consumat montes et silvas, facit quod præceptum est ei : hæc autem neque speciebus, neque virtutibus, uni eorum similia sunt. +Baruch Bar 30 6 63 Unde neque existimandum est, neque dicendum illos esse deos, quando non possunt neque judicium judicare, neque quidquam facere hominibus. +Baruch Bar 30 6 64 Scientes itaque quia non sunt dii, ne ergo timueritis eos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 65 Neque enim regibus maledicent, neque benedicent. +Baruch Bar 30 6 66 Signa etiam in cælo gentibus non ostendunt : neque ut sol lucebunt, neque illuminabunt ut luna. +Baruch Bar 30 6 67 Bestiæ meliores sunt illis, quæ possunt fugere sub tectum ac prodesse sibi. +Baruch Bar 30 6 68 Nullo itaque modo nobis est manifestum quia sunt dii : propter quod ne timeatis eos. +Baruch Bar 30 6 69 Nam sicut in cucumerario formido nihil custodit, ita sunt dii illorum lignei, et argentei, et inaurati. +Baruch Bar 30 6 70 Eodem modo et in horto spina alba, supra quam omnis avis sedet, similiter et mortuo projecto in tenebris, similes sunt dii illorum lignei, et inaurati, et inargentati. +Baruch Bar 30 6 71 A purpura quoque et murice, quæ supra illos tineant, scietis itaque quia non sunt dii : ipsi etiam postremo comeduntur, et erunt opprobrium in regione. +Baruch Bar 30 6 72 Melior est homo justus qui non habet simulacra, nam erit longe ab opprobriis. diff --git a/internal/bible/ref_test.go b/internal/bible/ref_test.go index 3a661ad..9473123 100644 --- a/internal/bible/ref_test.go +++ b/internal/bible/ref_test.go @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ func TestLookup(t *testing.T) { if last.Verse != 18 { t.Errorf("last verse = %d want 18", last.Verse) } - if _, m := Lookup("vul", "Wisdom 3:1"); len(m) == 0 { - t.Error("vul lacks Wisdom; expected a missing entry") + // Deuterocanon now present in vul + drb (Clementine Vulgate / Douay-Rheims). + if vs, m := Lookup("vul", "Wisdom 3:1"); len(m) != 0 || len(vs) == 0 { + t.Errorf("vul Wisdom 3:1: missing=%v verses=%d (deuterocanon should resolve)", m, len(vs)) + } + if vs, m := Lookup("drb", "Judith 13:22"); len(m) != 0 || len(vs) == 0 { + t.Errorf("drb Judith 13:22: missing=%v verses=%d (deuterocanon should resolve)", m, len(vs)) } } -- cgit v1.3