en_wbms - Sir 36 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ God of all things, have thou mercy on us; and behold thou us, and show to us the light of thy merciful doings.

² And send thy dread on heathen men [or Gentiles], that sought not thee, that they know that no God is [or there is not God], no but thou; that they tell out thy great deeds.

³ Raise thine hand on heathen men aliens, that they see thy power. [Rear up thine hand upon alien folks, that they see thy might.]

⁴ For as thou were hallowed in us in the sight of them, so in our sight thou shalt be magnified in them;

⁵ that they know thee, as and we have known, that none other is God, except thee, Lord. [that they know thee, as we have known, for there is none other God, save thee, Lord.]

⁶ Make thou new signs, and change thou marvels; glorify the hand, and the right arm.

⁷ Raise thou strong vengeance, and shed out ire [or Rear up madness, and pour out wrath]; take away the adver-sary, and torment the enemy.

⁸ Haste thou the time, and have thou mind on the end, that they tell out thy marvels.

⁹ And he that is saved, be devoured in the ire of flame; and they that treat worst thy people, find perdition.

¹⁰ All-break thou the heads of princes, and of enemies, saying, None other is [or There is none other], except us.

¹¹ Gather thou together all the lineages of Jacob, and know they that no God is, no but thou [or know they for there is no God but thou], that they tell out thy great deeds; and thou shalt inherit them, as at the begin-ning.

¹² Have thou mercy on thy people, on which thy name is called into help; and on Israel, whom thou madest even to thy first engendered son [or to thy first begotten].

¹³ Have thou mercy on Jerusalem, the city of thine hallowing, on the city of thy rest.

¹⁴ Fill thou Zion with thy virtues, that may not be told out, and fill thy people with thy glory. [Full-fill Zion with thine untellable virtues, and thy people with thy glory.]

¹⁵ Give thou witnessing, that at [or from] the beginning they were thy creatures; and raise thou prayers, which the former prophets spake in thy name.

¹⁶ Lord, give thou meed to them that abide thee, that thy prophets be found true [or faithful];

¹⁷ and hear thou the prayer of thy servants. After the blessing of Aaron give thou to thy people, and dress thou us into the way of rightfulness [or right rule us into the way of rightwiseness]; that all men know, that dwell in earth, that thou art God, the beholder of worlds.

¹⁸ The womb shall eat all meats, and one meat is better than another meat.

¹⁹ Cheeks touch meat almost, and an unwise heart receiveth false [or leasing] words.

²⁰ A shrewd heart shall give heavi-ness, and a wise man shall against-stand [or withstand] it.

²¹ A woman shall take each knave [or male] child, and a daughter is better than a son [or there is a daughter better than the son].

²² The fairness of a woman maketh glad the face of her husband, and she shall bring desire for herself over all the covetousness [or lust] of her man.

²³ If there is a tongue of healing [or curing], there is also of assuaging, and of mercy; the husband of her is not after the sons of men.

²⁴ He that hath in possession a good woman, beginneth possession; she is an help like him, and a pillar as rest.

²⁵ Where an hedge is not, the possession shall be ravished away [or broken]; and where a woman is not, a needy man waileth.

²⁶ To whom believeth he that hath no nest, and boweth down wherever it is dark, as a thief girt [or girded up], skipping out from city into city?