Sirach 49

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 The memory of Josiah is like blended incense prepared by the perfumer's art; it is as sweet as honey toal mouths, and like music at a wine feast.	1 The remembrance of Josias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary: it is sweet as honey in all mouths, and as musick at a banquet of wine.
2 He took the right course, of converting the people, he rooted out the iniquitous abominations,	2 He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity.
3 he set his heart on the Lord, in godless times he upheld the cause of religion.	3 He directed his heart unto the Lord, and in the time of the ungodly he established the worship of God.
4 Apart from David, Hezekiah and Josiah, they al heaped wrong on wrong, they abandoned the Law ofthe Most High: the kings of Judah disappeared;	4 All, except David and Ezekias and Josias, were defective: for they forsook the law of the most High, even the kings of Juda failed.
5 for they handed their power over to others and their honour to a foreign nation.	5 Therefore he gave their power unto others, and their glory to a strange nation.
6 The holy, chosen city was burnt down, her streets were left deserted,	6 They burnt the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made the streets desolate, according to the prophecy of Jeremias.
7 as Jeremiah had predicted; for they had il -treated him, though consecrated a prophet in his mother'swomb, to tear up and afflict and destroy, but also to build up and to plant.	7 For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother's womb, that he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.
8 Ezekiel saw a vision of glory which God showed to him above the chariot of the great winged creatures,	8 It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision, which was shewed him upon the chariot of the cherubims.
9 for he mentioned the enemies in the downpour to the advantage of those who fol ow the right way.	9 For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of the rain, and directed them that went right.
10 As for the twelve prophets, may their bones flower again from the tomb, since they have comfortedJacob and redeemed him in faith and hope.	10 And of the twelve prophets let the memorial be blessed, and let their bones flourish again out of their place: for they comforted Jacob, and delivered them by assured hope.
11 How shal we extol Zerubbabel? He was like a signet ring on the right hand,	11 How shall we magnify Zorobabel? even he was as a signet on the right hand:
12 so too was Joshua son of Jozadak; they who in their days built the Temple and raised a sanctuarysacred to the Lord, destined to everlasting glory.	12 So was Jesus the son of Josedec: who in their time builded the house, and set up an holy temple to the Lord, which was prepared for everlasting glory.
13 Great too is the memory of Nehemiah, who rebuilt our wal s which lay in ruins, erected the boltedgates and rebuilt our houses.	13 And among the elect was Neemias, whose renown is great, who raised up for us the walls that were fallen, and set up the gates and the bars, and raised up our ruins again.
14 No one else has ever been created on earth to equal Enoch, for he was taken up from earth.	14 But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was taken from the earth.
15 And no one else ever born has been like Joseph, the leader of his brothers, the prop of his people; hisbones received a visitation.	15 Neither was there a young man born like Joseph, a governor of his brethren, a stay of the people, whose bones were regarded of the Lord.
16 Shem and Seth were the most honoured of men, but above every living creature is Adam.	16 Sem and Seth were in great honour among men, and so was Adam above every living thing in creation.