Sirach 36

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