HOLY BIBLE: Sirach 2 (original) (raw)

14 οὐαὶ καρδίαις δειλαῖς καὶ χερσὶν παρειμέναις καὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ ἐπιβαίνοντι ἐπὶ δύο τρίβους 15 οὐαὶ καρδίᾳ παρειμένῃ ὅτι οὐ πιστεύει διὰ τοῦτο οὐ σκεπασθήσεται 16 οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς ἀπολωλεκόσιν τὴν ὑπομονήν 17 καὶ τί ποιήσετε ὅταν ἐπισκέπτηται ὁ κύριος 18 οἱ φοβούμενοι κύριον οὐκ ἀπειθήσουσιν ῥημάτων αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ ἀγαπῶντες αὐτὸν συντηρήσουσιν τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ 19 οἱ φοβούμενοι κύριον ζητήσουσιν εὐδοκίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ οἱ ἀγαπῶντες αὐτὸν ἐμπλησθήσονται τοῦ νόμου 20 οἱ φοβούμενοι κύριον ἑτοιμάσουσιν καρδίας αὐτῶν καὶ ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ταπεινώσουσιν τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν 21 22 ἐμπεσούμεθα εἰς χεῖρας κυρίου καὶ οὐκ εἰς χεῖρας ἀνθρώπων 23 ὡς γὰρ ἡ μεγαλωσύνη αὐτοῦ οὕτως καὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ

14 Out upon the false heart, the cheating lips, the hands busy with ill-doing; upon the sinner that will go two ways at once to enter the land of his desire. 15 Out upon the unresolved will, that trust in God has none, and from him shall have no succour. 16 Out upon the men who have given up hope, forsaking the right path, and to false paths betaking them; 17 what shift will they make when the Lord calls them to account? 18 Fear the Lord, and doubt his promises? Love him, and not keep true to the way he shews us? 19 Fear the Lord, and not study to know his will? Love him, and not find contentment in his law? 20 Fear God, and not keep the will alert, the heart holy in his sight? 21 Men who fear God keep his commandments, and wait patiently until he comes to relieve them. 22 Be this our thought, they say, that it is God’s power we have to reckon with, not man’s, if there is no penance done. 23 And he has mercy ever at his side, a God merciful as he is great.

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Væ duplici corde, et labiis scelestis,
et manibus malefacientibus,
et peccatori terram ingredienti duabus viis!

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Væ dissolutis corde, qui non credunt Deo,
et ideo non protegentur ab eo! 16
Væ his qui perdiderunt sustinentiam,
et qui dereliquerunt vias rectas,
et diverterunt in vias pravas! 17
Et quid facient cum inspicere cœperit Dominus? 18
Qui timent Dominum non erunt incredibiles verbo illius:
et qui diligunt illum conservabunt viam illius. 19
Qui timent Dominum inquirent quæ beneplacita sunt ei,
et qui diligunt eum replebuntur lege ipsius. 20
Qui timent Dominum præparabunt corda sua,
et in conspectu illius sanctificabunt animas suas. 21
Qui timent Dominum custodiunt mandata illius,
et patientiam habebunt usque ad inspectionem illius, 22
dicentes: Si pœnitentiam non egerimus,
incidemus in manus Domini, et non in manus hominum. 23
Secundum enim magnitudinem ipsius,
sic et misericordia illius cum ipso est.