Sirach 36 — WBMSE

36Verse 1God of all things, have thou mercy on us; and behold thou us, and show to us the light of thy merciful doings.^{Verse 2}And send thy dread on heathen men, that sought not thee, (so) that they know that no God is, no but thou; that they tell out thy great [worthy] deeds.^{Verse 3}Raise [up] thine hand on heathen men aliens, (so) that they see thy power.^{Verse 4}For as thou were hallowed in us in the sight of them, so in our sight thou shalt be magnified in them;^{Verse 5}(so) that they know thee, as and we have known (thee), that none other is God, except thee, Lord.^{Verse 6}Make thou new signs, and change thou marvels; glorify the hand, and the right arm.^{Verse 7}Raise [up] thou strong vengeance, and shed out ire [or pour out wrath]; take away the adversary, and torment the enemy.^{Verse 8}Haste thou the time, and have thou mind on the end, (so) that they tell out thy marvels.^{Verse 9}And he that is saved, be devour-ed in the ire of flame; and they that treat worst thy people, find perdition.^{Verse 10}All-break thou the head(s) of princes, and of enemies, saying, None other is [or There is none other], except us.^{Verse 11}Gather thou together all the lineages of Jacob, and know they that no God is, no but thou [or there is no God but thou], (so) that they tell out thy great deeds; and thou shalt inherit them, as at the beginning.^{Verse 12}Have thou mercy on thy people, on which thy name is called in to help; and on Israel, whom thou madest even to thy first engendered [or (be)gotten] son.^{Verse 13}Have thou mercy on Jerusalem, the city of thine hallowing, on the city of thy rest.^{Verse 14}[Full]-fill thou Zion with thy virtues, that may not be told out [or untellable], and fill thy people with thy glory.^{Verse 15}Give thou witnessing, that at [or from] the beginning they were thy creatures; and raise thou (the) prayers, which the former prophets spake in thy name.^{Verse 16}Lord, give thou meed (or reward) to them that abide thee, (so) that thy prophets be found true [or faithful];^{Verse 17}and hear thou the prayer of thy servants. After the blessing of Aaron give thou to thy people, and (ad)dress (or direct) thou us into the way of rightfulness; (so) that all men know, that dwell in (or on the) earth, that thou art God, the beholder of worlds.^{Verse 18}The womb shall eat all meat(s), and one meat is better than another meat.^{Verse 19}Cheeks touch meat almost, and an unwise heart receiveth false [or leasing (or lying)] words.^{Verse 20}A shrewd (or depraved) heart shall give heaviness, and a wise man shall against-stand [or withstand] it.^{Verse 21}A woman shall take each knave [or male] child, and (or but) a daughter is [or there is a daughter] better than a son.^{Verse 22}The fairness of a woman maketh glad the face of her husband, and (so) she shall bring desire (for herself) over all the covetousness [or (the) lust] of (her) man.^{Verse 23}If there is a tongue of healing, [or of curing, (or of caring)], there is also (one) of assuaging, and of mercy; (and) the husband of her is not after (or like most of) the (other) sons of men.^{Verse 24}He that hath in possession a good woman, beginneth (a) possession; she is an help like (to) him(self), and a pillar as (or of) rest.^{Verse 25}Where an hedge is not, the possession shall be ravished (or snatched) away [or broken]; and where a woman is not, a needy man waileth.^{Verse 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?