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Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 36
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Chapter 36
Prayer for the deliverance and restoration of Israel
1
Have mercy on us, Master, Lord of all, and look on us, cast the fear of yourself over every nation.
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Raise your hand against the foreign nations and let them see your might.
3
As in their sight you have proved yourself holy before us, so now in our sight prove yourself great before them.
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Let them acknowledge you, just as we have acknowledged that there is no God but you, Lord.
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Send new portents, do fresh wonders, win glory for your hand and your right arm.
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Rouse your fury, pour out your rage, destroy the opponent, annihilate the enemy.
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Hasten the day, remember the oath, and let men tell of your mighty deeds.
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Let fiery wrath swallow up the survivor, and destruction overtake those who use your people badly.
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Crush the heads of hostile rulers who say, ‘There is nobody else but us!’
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Gather together all the tribes of Jacob, restore them their inheritance as in the beginning.[*a]
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Have mercy, Lord, on the people who have invoked your name, on Israel whom you have treated as a first-born.
12
Show compassion on your holy city, on Jerusalem the place of your rest.
13
Fill Zion with songs of your praise, and your sanctuary with your glory.
14
Bear witness to those you created in the beginning, and bring about what has been prophesied in your name.
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Give those who wait for you their reward, and let your prophets be proved worthy of belief.
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Grant, Lord, the prayer of your servants, in accordance with Aaron’s blessing on your people,
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so that all the earth’s inhabitants may acknowledge that you are the Lord, the everlasting God.
Discrimination
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The stomach takes in all kinds of food but some foods are better than others.
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As the palate discerns the flavour of game, so a shrewd man detects lying words.
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A perverse heart causes sorrow, an experienced man knows how to pay him back.
Choosing
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A woman will accept any husband, but some daughters are better than others.
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A woman’s beauty delights the beholder, a man likes nothing better.
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If her tongue is kind and gentle, her husband has no equal among the sons of men.
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The man who takes a wife has the makings of a fortune, a helper that suits him, and a pillar to lean on.
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If a property has no fence, it will be plundered. When a man has no wife, he is aimless and querulous.
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Will anyone trust a man carrying weapons who flits from town to town?
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So it is with the man who has no nest, and lodges wherever night overtakes him.
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