Sirach 43 — WBMSE
43Verse 1The firmament of highness is the fairness thereof [or The firmament of the height is the fairness of him]; the fairness of heaven in the sight of glory.Verse 2The sun in beholding, telling in going out, is a wonderful vessel, the work of (the) high God[or the (Most) High].Verse 3In the time of midday it burneth the earth; and who shall be able to suffer (or to endure) in the sight of his (or its) heat?Verse 4Keeping a furnace in the works of heat; the sun burning hills in three manners, sending out beams of fire [or blasting out fiery beams], and shining again with his (or its) beams, blindeth (the) eyes.Verse 5The Lord is great, that made it; and in the words of him it hast(en)ed (its) journey [or hied the way].Verse 6And the moon in all men[or things] in his (or its) time is(a) show-ing of time, and a sign of the world.Verse 7A sign of the feast [or holy] day is taken of (or from) the moon; the light which is made little in the end.Verse 8The month is increasing by [or after] the name thereof, wonderfully into the ending. A vessel of castles (or of the hosts) in high things, shining gloriously in the firmament of heaven.Verse 9The fairness of heaven is the glory of stars; the Lord on high lighteneth the world.Verse 10In (or At) the words of the Holy (One), those (or they) shall stand at the doom; and those shall not fail in their wakings [or their watches].Verse 11See thou the rainbow, and bless thou him that made it; it is full fair in his (or its) shining.Verse 12It went about heaven in the compass [or the circuit] of his (or its) glory; the hands of (the) high God[or the (Most) High] opened it.Verse 13By his commandment he hast(en)-ed the snow; and he hast(en)eth to send out the lightnings of his doom.Verse 14Therefore (the) treasures were opened, and clouds fled out [or flew away] as bees [or birds].Verse 15In his greatness he setted [the] clouds; and stones of hail were broken.Verse 16Hills shall be moved in (or at) his sight; and the south wind shall blow in (or at) his will.Verse 17The voice of his thunder shall beat [or beateth] the earth; the tem-pest of the north, and the gathering together of (the) wind. And as a bird putting down to sit sprinkleth (or scattereth the) snow, and the coming down of that snow is as a locust drenching (or drowning) down.Verse 18The eye shall wonder [or marvel] on the fairness of (the) whiteness thereof; and an heart dreadeth [or the heart quaketh] on the rain thereof.Verse 19He shall shed [or pour] out frost as salt on the earth; and while the wind bloweth, it shall be made as (the) cops (or tops) of a briar [or the bramble (bush)].Verse 20The cold northern wind blew, and (the) crystal of (the) water froze together; it resteth on all the gather-ing together of waters, and it clotheth itself with waters, as with an habergeon (or breastplate).Verse 21And it shall devour hills, and it shall burn the desert; and it shall quench green thing as fire.Verse 22The medicine of all things is in the hast(en)ing of a cloud; a dew, meeting the heat coming of (or after the) burning, shall make it low.Verse 23The wind was still [or held his peace] in (or by) the word of God; by his thought he made peaceable the depth of (the) waters; and the Lord Jesus+, that is, God, which is (the) Saviour of all men, planted it.Verse 24They that sail in (or on) the sea, tell out the perils thereof; and we hearing with our ears, shall wonder.Verse 25There be full clear works, and wonderful [or marvellous], diverse kinds of beasts, and of all little beasts, and the creature(s), (or the creation), of wonderful fishes.Verse 26The end of (the) way is confirmed for it [or (by) him]; and all things be made in (or by) the word of him.Verse 27We say many things, and (yet) we fail in words; forsooth he is the (full) ending of words.Verse 28To what thing shall we be mighty, that have (or who hath) glory in all things? for he is all-mighty above [or over] all his works.Verse 29The Lord is fearedful, and full great; and his power is wonderful.Verse 30Glorify ye the Lord as much as ever ye may or as ye be able to, yet he shall be mightier; and his great doing is wonderful [or marvellous]. Ye blessing the Lord, enhance (or exalt) him as much as ye may or as ye be able to; for he is more than all praising. Ye enhancing him shall be filled with virtue; travail ye not to know God perfectly in this life, for ye shall not take (or shall not receive it) perfectly, that is, for it is unpossible.Verse 31Who saw him, and shall tell (it) out? and who shall magnify him, as he is from the beginning?Verse 32Many things greater than these be hid from us; for we have seen (only a) few things of his works.Verse 33Forsooth the Lord made all things; and he gave wisdom to men doing faithfully [or piously].