Sirach 36

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Take pity on us, Master, Lord of the universe, look at us, spread fear of yourself throughout al othernations.	1 Have mercy upon us, O Lord God of all, and behold us:
2 Raise your hand against the foreign nations and let them see your might.	2 And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after thee.
3 As, in their sight, you have proved yourself holy to us, so now, in our sight, prove yourself great to them.	3 Lift up thy hand against the strange nations, and let them see thy power.
4 Let them acknowledge you, just as we have acknowledged that there is no God but you, Lord.	4 As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou magnified among them before us.
5 Send new portents, do fresh wonders, win glory for your hand and your right arm.	5 And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is no God but only thou, O God.
6 Rouse your fury, pour out your rage, destroy the opponent, annihilate the enemy.	6 Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous works.
7 Hasten the day, remember the oath, and let people tell of your mighty deeds.	7 Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.
8 Let fiery wrath swal ow up the survivor, and destruction overtake those who oppress your people.	8 Sake the time short, remember the covenant, and let them declare thy wonderful works.
9 Crush the heads of hostile rulers who say, 'There is no one else but us!'	9 Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire; and let them perish that oppress the people.
10 Gather together all the tribes of Jacob, restore them their heritage as at the beginning.	10 Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that say, There is none other but we.
11 Take pity, Lord, on the people cal ed by your name, on Israel whom you have made your first-born.	11 Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and inherit thou them, as from the beginning.
12 Have compassion on your holy city, on Jerusalem, the place where you rest.	12 O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.
13 Fil Zion with your praises and your sanctuary with your glory.	13 O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy rest.
14 Vindicate those whom you created first, fulfil what has been prophesied in your name.	14 Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people with thy glory:
15 Give those who wait for you their reward, let your prophets be proved true.	15 Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.
16 Grant, Lord, the prayer of your servants, in the terms of Aaron's blessing on your people,	16 Reward them that wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found faithful.
17 so that al the earth's inhabitants may acknowledge that you are the Lord, the everlasting God.	17 O Lord, hear the prayer of thy servants, according to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, that all they which dwell upon the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the eternal God.
18 The stomach takes in all kinds of food, but some foods are better than others.	18 The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than another.
19 As the palate discerns the flavour of game, so a shrewd listener detects lying words.	19 As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison: so doth an heart of understanding false speeches.
20 A perverse character causes depression in others; it needs experience to know how to repay such aone.	20 A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience will recompense him.
21 A woman wil accept any husband, but some daughters are better than others.	21 A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.
22 A woman's beauty delights the beholder, a man likes nothing better.	22 The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man loveth nothing better.
23 If her tongue is kind and gentle, her husband is the happiest of men.	23 If there be kindness, meekness, and comfort, in her tongue, then is not her husband like other men.
24 The man who takes a wife has the makings of a fortune, a helper to match himself, a pil ar of support.	24 He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.
25 When property has no fence, it is open to plunder, when a man has no wife, he is aimless andquerulous.	25 Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.
26 Wil anyone trust an armed thief who flits from town to town?	26 Who will trust a thief well appointed, that skippeth from city to city? so [who will believe] a man that hath no house, and lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him?
27 So it is with the man who has no nest, and lodges wherever night overtakes him.	27 []
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