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Sirach 36

1Have mercy upon us, O Lord the God of all, and look at us with favor;
1Have mercy upon us, O Lord God of all, and behold us:
2and send your fear upon all the nations.
2And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after thee.
3Lift up your hand against the foreign nations and let them see your mighty power.
3Lift up thy hand against the strange nations, and let them see thy power.
4As you showed your holiness in us before them, so be magnified in them before us.
4As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou magnified among them before us.
5Let them know you, as we also have known you, that there is no God but only you, O God.
5And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is no God but only thou, O God.
6Show new signs, and work various wonders. Glorify your hand and your right arm.
6Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous works.
7Raise up indignation and pour out wrath. Take away the adversary and destroy the enemy.
7Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.
8Hasten the time and remember your oath. Let them declare your mighty works.
8Make the time short, remember the covenant, and let them declare thy wonderful works.
9Let him who escapes be devoured by raging fire. May those who harm your people find destruction.
9Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire; and let them perish that oppress the people.
10Crush the heads of the rulers of the enemies who say, “There is no one but ourselves.”
10Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that say, There is none other but we.
11Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and take them for your inheritance, as from the beginning.
11Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and inherit thou them, as from the beginning.
12O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by your name, and upon Israel, whom you likened to a firstborn.
12O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.
13Have compassion upon the city of your sanctuary, Jerusalem, the place of your rest.
13O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy rest.
14Fill Zion. Exalt your oracles and fill your people with your glory.
14Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people with thy glory:
15Give testimony to those who were your creatures in the beginning, and fulfill the prophecies that have been spoken in your name.
15Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.
16Reward those who wait for you, and men will put their trust in your prophets.
16Reward them that wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found faithful.
17Listen, O Lord, to the prayer of your servants, according to the blessing of Aaron concerning your people; and all those who are on the earth will know that you are the Lord, the eternal God.
17O 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.
18The belly will eat any food, but one food is better than another.
18The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than another.
19The mouth tastes meats taken in hunting, so does an understanding heart detect false speech.
19As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison: so doth an heart of understanding false speeches.
20A contrary heart will cause heaviness. A man of experience will pay him back.
20A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience will recompense him.
21A woman will receive any man, but one daughter is better than another.
21A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.
22The beauty of a woman cheers the countenance. A man desires nothing more.
22The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man loveth nothing better.
23If kindness and humility are on her tongue, her husband is not like other sons of men.
23If there be kindness, meekness, and comfort, in her tongue, then is not her husband like other men.
24He who gets a wife gets his richest treasure, a help meet for him and a pillar of support.
24He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.
25Where no hedge is, the property will be plundered. He who has no wife will mourn as he wanders.
25Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.
26For who would trust a nimble robber who skips from city to city? Even so, who would trust a man who has no nest, and lodges wherever he finds himself at nightfall?
26Who 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?