Sirach 48 Clementine Vulgate
1 [Et surrexit Elias propheta quasi ignis, et verbum ipsius quasi facula ardebat.
1 Then Elijah arose, the prophet like fire. His word burned like a torch.
2 Qui induxit in illos famem: et irritantes illum invidia sua pauci facti sunt: non enim poterant sustinere præcepta Domini.
2 He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal made them few in number.
3 Verbo Domini continuit cælum, et dejecit de cælo ignem ter.
3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens. He brought down fire three times.
4 Sic amplificatus est Elias in mirabilibus suis. Et quis potest similiter sic gloriari tibi?
4 How you were glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is like yours?
5 qui sustulisti mortuum ab inferis de sorte mortis, in verbo Domini Dei:
5 You raised up a dead man from death, from Hades, by the word of the Most High.
6 qui dejecisti reges ad pernicem, et confregisti facile potentiam ipsorum, et gloriosos de lecto suo:
6 You brought down kings to destruction, and honorable men from their sickbeds.
7 qui audis in Sina judicium, et in Horeb judicia defensionis:
7 You heard rebuke in Sinai, and judgments of vengeance in Horeb.
8 qui ungis reges ad pœnitentiam, et prophetas facis successores post te:
8 You anointed kings for retribution, and prophets to succeed after you.
9 qui receptus es in turbine ignis, in curru equorum igneorum:
9 You were taken up in a tempest of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.
10 qui scriptus es in judiciis temporum, lenire iracundiam Domini, conciliare cor patris ad filium, et restituere tribus Jacob.
10 You were recorded for reproofs in their seasons, to pacify anger, before it broke out into wrath, to turn the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
11 Beati sunt qui te viderunt, et in amicitia tua decorati sunt.
11 Blessed are those who saw you, and those who have been beautified with love; for we also shall surely live.
12 Nam nos vita vivimus tantum: post mortem autem non erit tale nomen nostrum.]
12 Elijah was wrapped in a whirlwind. Elisha was filled with his spirit. In his days he was not moved by the fear of any ruler, and no one brought him into subjection.
13 [Elias quidem in turbine tectus est, et in Eliseo completus est spiritus ejus: in diebus suis non pertimuit principem, et potentia nemo vicit illum:
13 Nothing was too hard for him. When he was buried, his body prophesied.
14 nec superavit illum verbum aliquod, et mortuum prophetavit corpus ejus.
14 As in his life he did wonders, so his works were also marvelous in death.
15 In vita sua fecit monstra, et in morte mirabilia operatus est.]
15 For all this the people didn’t repent. They didn’t depart from their sins, until they were carried away as a plunder from their land, and were scattered through all the earth. The people were left very few in number, but with a ruler from the house of David.
16 [In omnibus istis non pœnituit populus, et non recesserunt a peccatis suis, usque dum ejecti sunt de terra sua, et dispersi sunt in omnem terram:
16 Some of them did that which was right, but some multiplied sins.
17 et relicta est gens perpauca, et princeps in domo David.
17 Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into its midst. He tunneled through rock with iron, and built cisterns for water.
18 Quidam ipsorum fecerunt quod placeret Deo: alii autem multa commiserunt peccata.
18 In his days Sennacherib invaded, and sent Rabshakeh, and departed. He lifted up his hand against Zion, and boasted great things in his arrogance.
19 Ezechias munivit civitatem suam, et induxit in medium ipsius aquam: et fodit ferro rupem, et ædificavit ad aquam puteum.
19 Then their hearts and their hands were shaken, and they were in pain, as women in labor.
20 In diebus ipsius ascendit Sennacherib, et misit Rabsacen, et sustulit manum suam contra illos: et extulit manum suam in Sion, et superbus factus est potentia sua.
20 But they called upon the Lord who is merciful, spreading out their hands to him. The Holy One quickly heard them out of Heaven, and delivered them by the hand of Isaiah.
21 Tunc mota sunt corda et manus ipsorum: et doluerunt quasi parturientes mulieres.
21 He struck the camp of the Assyrians, and his angel utterly destroyed them.
22 Et invocaverunt Dominum misericordem, et expandentes manus suas extulerunt ad cælum: et Sanctus, Dominus Deus, audivit cito vocem ipsorum.
22 For Hezekiah did that which was pleasing to the Lord, and was strong in the ways of his ancestor David, which Isaiah the prophet commanded, who was great and faithful in his vision.
23 Non est commemoratus peccatorum illorum, neque dedit illos inimicis suis: sed purgavit eos in manu Isaiæ sancti prophetæ.
23 In his days the sun went backward. He prolonged the life of the king.
24 Dejecit castra Assyriorum, et contrivit illos angelus Domini:
24 He saw by an excellent spirit what would come to pass in the future; and he comforted those who mourned in Zion.
25 nam fecit Ezechias quod placuit Deo, et fortiter ivit in via David patris sui, quam mandavit illi Isaias, propheta magnus, et fidelis in conspectu Dei.
25 He showed the things that would happen through the end of time, and the hidden things before they came.
26 In diebus ipsius retro rediit sol, et addidit regi vitam.
26 Not in this translation
27 Spiritu magno vidit ultima, et consolatus est lugentes in Sion usque in sempiternum.
27 Not in this translation
28 Ostendit futura, et abscondita antequam evenirent.]
28 Not in this translation