Sirach 49

Latin original · 16 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 3 other originals — side by side (Septuagint, Ge'ez Bible, Apocrypha)

49:1

Memoria Josiæ in compositionem odoris facta opus pigmentarii.

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.

約西亞的記念如同配製的香品，是按配香者的手藝調成的；在各人口中如蜜般甘甜，又如酒宴中的音樂。

49:2

In omni ore quasi mel indulcabitur ejus memoria, et ut musica in convivio vini.

He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, And took away the abominations of iniquity.

他在百姓歸正的事上行得正直，又除掉那可憎的罪孽。

49:3

Ipse est directus divinitus in pœnitentiam gentis, et tulit abominationes impietatis.

He set his heart right toward the Lord; In the days of wicked men he made godliness to prevail.

他向主存正直的心；在惡人的日子，他使敬虔得以堅立。

49:4

Et gubernavit ad Dominum cor ipsius, et in diebus peccatorum corroboravit pietatem.

Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah, All committed trespass: For they forsook the law of the Most High; The kings of Judah failed.

除了大衛、希西家和約西亞之外，眾王都犯了過犯；因為猶大的列王離棄了至高者的律法，盡都消亡了。

49:5

Præter David et Ezechiam et Josiam, omnes peccatum commiserunt :

For they gave their power to others, And their glory to a strange nation.

因為他們把自己的角給了別人，把自己的榮耀給了外邦。

49:6

nam reliquerunt legem Altissimi reges Juda, et contempserunt timorem Dei.

They set on fire the chosen city of the sanctuary, And made her streets desolate, as it was written by the hand of Jeremiah.

他們焚燒那蒙揀選的聖城，使她的街道荒涼，

49:7

Dederunt enim regnum suum aliis, et gloriam suam alienigenæ genti.

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.

正如耶利米藉著他的手所說的。因為他們苦待了耶利米；他原是在母腹中就分別為聖、立為先知的，要去拔出、拆毀、毀壞，也照樣去建造、栽植。

49:8

Incenderunt electam sanctitatis civitatem, et desertas fecerunt vias ipsius in manu Jeremiæ.

It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory, Which God showed him upon the chariot of the cherubim.

以西結看見了榮耀的異象，就是神在基路伯的車輦上向他顯明的。

49:9

Nam male tractaverunt illum qui a ventre matris consecratus est propheta, evertere, et eruere, et perdere, et iterum ædificare, et renovare :

For verily he remembered the enemies in storm, And to do good to those who directed their ways aright.

他確實在風暴中記念仇敵，又施恩給那些行正直道路的人。