| 49 | Ecclesiasticus | ||
| 1 | The memory of Josiah is like a blending of incense prepared by the art of the perfumer; it is sweet as honey to every mouth, and like music at a banquet of wine. | Josiah. Sir.49.1-3 | |
| 2 | He was led aright in converting the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity. | ||
| 3 | He set his heart upon the Lord; in the days of wicked men he strengthened godliness. | ||
| 4 | Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah they all sinned greatly, for they forsook the law of the Most High; the kings of Judah came to an end; | Jeremiah. Sir.49.4-7 | |
| 5 | for they gave their power to others, and their glory to a foreign nation, | ||
| 6 | who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made her streets desolate, according to the word of Jeremiah. | ||
| 7 | For they had afflicted him; yet he had been consecrated in the womb as prophet, to pluck up and afflict and destroy, and likewise to build and to plant. | ||
| 8 | It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory which God showed him above the chariot of the cherubim. | Ezekiel. Sir.49.8-9 | |
| 9 | For God remembered his enemies with storm, and did good to those who directed their ways aright. | ||
| 10 | May the bones of the twelve prophets revive from where they lie, for they comforted the people of Jacob and delivered them with confident hope. | The twelve prophets. Sir.49.10 | |
| 11 | How shall we magnify Zerubbabel? He was like a signet on the right hand, | Zerubabel & Joshua. Sir.49.11-12 | |
| 12 | and so was Jeshua the son of Jozadak; in their days they built the house and raised a temple holy to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory. | ||
| 13 | The memory of Nehemiah also is lasting; he raised for us the walls that had fallen, and set up the gates and bars and rebuilt our ruined houses. | Nehemiah. Sir.49.13 | |
| 14 | No one like Enoch has been created on earth, for he was taken up from the earth. | The Patriarchs. Sir.49.14-16 | |
| 15 | And no man like Joseph has been born, and his bones are cared for. | ||
| 16 | Shem and Seth were honoured among men, and Adam above every living being in the creation. | ||
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