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Sirach 36:5-19 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

14. Take pity on your people, over whom your name has been invoked, and on Israel, whom you have treated as your firstborn.

15. Take pity on Jerusalem, the city of your sanctification, the city of your rest.

16. Fill Zion with your ineffable words, and fill your people with your glory.

17. Give testimony to those who have been your creations from the beginning, and lift up the prophecies which the former prophets spoke in your name.

18. Give a reward to those who endure for you, so that your prophets may be found to be faithful. And heed the prayers of your servants,

19. in accord with the blessing of Aaron over your people. And direct us in the way of justice, and let all who inhabit the earth know that you are God, the Beholder of all ages.

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