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Sirach 36:1-13 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. O God of all, take pity on us, and look with favor on us, and show us the light of your compassion.

2. And send your fear upon the Gentiles, who have not sought you, so that they may acknowledge that there is no God except you, and so that they may declare your great deeds.

3. Lift up your hand over unbelieving nations, so that they may see your power.

4. For just as, in their sight, you have been sanctified in us, so also, in our sight, you will be magnified in them.

5. So may they know you, as we also have known you. For there is no God apart from you, O Lord.

6. Renew your signs, and work new wonders.

7. Glorify your hand and your right arm.

8. Stir up your fury, and pour out your wrath.

9. Take away our adversary, and afflict our enemy.

10. Hasten the time, and remember the end, so that they may declare your miracles.

11. Let those who escape be devoured by the wrath of fire. And let those who harass your people find perdition.

12. Crush the head of the leaders of the enemies, for they say: "There is no other beside us."

13. Gather together all the tribes of Jacob, so that they may acknowledge that there is no God except you, and so that they may declare your great deeds. And you will inherit them, as from the beginning.

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