Eclesiástico (Sirácida) · Revised Version (con apócrifos)
Eclesiástico (Sirácida) 49 Revised Version (con apócrifos)
Eclesiástico (Sirácida) no está en RV1909.
1 The memorial of Josiah is like the composition of incense Prepared by the work of the apothecary: It shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, And as music at a banquet of wine.
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2 He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, And took away the abominations of iniquity.
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3 He set his heart right toward the Lord; In the days of wicked men he made godliness to prevail.
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4 Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah, All committed trespass: For they forsook the law of the Most High; The kings of Judah failed.
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5 For they gave their power unto others, And their glory to a strange nation.
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6 They set on fire the chosen city of the sanctuary, And made her streets desolate, [as it was written ] by the hand of Jeremiah.
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7 For they entreated him evil; And yet he was sanctified in the womb to be a prophet, To root out, and to afflict, and to destroy; [And ] in like manner to build and to plant.
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8 [It was ] Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory, Which [God ] shewed him upon the chariot of the cherubim.
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9 For verily he remembered the enemies in storm, And to do good to them that directed their ways aright.
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10 Also of the twelve prophets May the bones flourish again out of their place. And he comforted Jacob, And delivered them by confidence of hope.
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11 How shall we magnify Zerubbabel? And he was as a signet on the right hand:
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12 So was Jesus the son of Josedek: Who in their days builded the house, And exalted a people holy to the Lord, Prepared for everlasting glory.
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13 Also of Nehemiah the memorial is great; Who raised up for us the walls that were fallen, And set up the gates and bars, And raised up our homes again.
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14 No man was created upon the earth such as was Enoch; For he was taken up from the earth.
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15 Neither was there a man born like unto Joseph, A governor of his brethren, a stay of the people: Yea, his bones were visited.
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16 Shem and Seth were glorified among men; And above every living thing in the creation is Adam.
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