Sirach 36

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, the God of all, and look upon us,	1 Take pity on us, Master, Lord of the universe, look at us, spread fear of yourself throughout al othernations.
2 and cause the fear of thee to fall upon all the nations.	2 Raise your hand against the foreign nations and let them see your might.
3 Lift up thy hand against foreign nations and let them see thy might.	3 As, in their sight, you have proved yourself holy to us, so now, in our sight, prove yourself great to them.
4 As in us thou hast been sanctified before them, so in them be thou magnified before us;	4 Let them acknowledge you, just as we have acknowledged that there is no God but you, Lord.
5 and let them know thee, as we have known that there is not God but thee, O Lord.	5 Send new portents, do fresh wonders, win glory for your hand and your right arm.
6 Show signs anew, and work further wonders; make thy hand and thy right arm glorious.	6 Rouse your fury, pour out your rage, destroy the opponent, annihilate the enemy.
7 Rouse thy anger and pour out thy wrath; destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy.	7 Hasten the day, remember the oath, and let people tell of your mighty deeds.
8 Hasten the day, and remember the appointed time, and let people recount thy mighty deeds.	8 Let fiery wrath swal ow up the survivor, and destruction overtake those who oppress your people.
9 Let him who survives be consumed in the fiery wrath, and may those who harm thy people meet destruction.	9 Crush the heads of hostile rulers who say, 'There is no one else but us!'
10 Crush the heads of the rulers of the enemy, who say, "There is no one but ourselves."	10 Gather together all the tribes of Jacob, restore them their heritage as at the beginning.
11 Gather all the tribes of Jacob, and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning.	11 Take pity, Lord, on the people cal ed by your name, on Israel whom you have made your first-born.
12 Have mercy, O Lord, upon the people called by thy name, upon Israel, whom thou hast likened to a first-born son.	12 Have compassion on your holy city, on Jerusalem, the place where you rest.
13 Have pity on the city of thy sanctuary, Jerusalem, the place of thy rest.	13 Fil Zion with your praises and your sanctuary with your glory.
14 Fill Zion with the celebration of thy wondrous deeds, and thy temple with thy glory.	14 Vindicate those whom you created first, fulfil what has been prophesied in your name.
15 Bear witness to those whom thou didst create in the beginning, and fulfil the prophecies spoken in thy name.	15 Give those who wait for you their reward, let your prophets be proved true.
16 Reward those who wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found trustworthy.	16 Grant, Lord, the prayer of your servants, in the terms of Aaron's blessing on your people,
17 Hearken, O Lord, to the prayer of thy servants, according to the blessing of Aaron for thy people, and all who are on the earth will know that thou art the Lord, the God of the ages.	17 so that al the earth's inhabitants may acknowledge that you are the Lord, the everlasting God.
18 The stomach will take any food, yet one food is better than another.	18 The stomach takes in all kinds of food, but some foods are better than others.
19 As the palate tastes the kinds of game, so an intelligent mind detects false words.	19 As the palate discerns the flavour of game, so a shrewd listener detects lying words.
20 A perverse mind will cause grief, but a man of experience will pay him back.	20 A perverse character causes depression in others; it needs experience to know how to repay such aone.
21 A woman will accept any man, but one daughter is better than another.	21 A woman wil accept any husband, but some daughters are better than others.
22 A woman's beauty gladdens the countenance, and surpasses every human desire.	22 A woman's beauty delights the beholder, a man likes nothing better.
23 If kindness and humility mark her speech, her husband is not like other men.	23 If her tongue is kind and gentle, her husband is the happiest of men.
24 He who acquires a wife gets his best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.	24 The man who takes a wife has the makings of a fortune, a helper to match himself, a pil ar of support.
25 Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered; and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and sigh.	25 When property has no fence, it is open to plunder, when a man has no wife, he is aimless andquerulous.
26 For who will trust a nimble robber that skips from city to city? So who will trust a man that has no home, and lodges wherever night finds him?	26 Wil anyone trust an armed thief who flits from town to town?
	27 So it is with the man who has no nest, and lodges wherever night overtakes him.