Ecclesiasticus 35
2 Of true sacrifices. 14 The prayer of the fatherless, and of the widow, and him that humbles himself.
WHOSO keeps the Law, brings offerings enough: he that holds fast the commandments, offers an offering of salvation.
He that is thankful to them that have well deserved, offers fine flour: and he that gives alms, sacrifices praise.
To depart from evil is a thankful thing to the Lord, and to forsake unrighteousness, is a reconciling unto him.
Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord.
For all these things are done because of the commandment.
The offering of the righteous makes the altar fat, and the smell thereof is sweet before the most High.
The sacrifice of the righteous is acceptable, and the remembrance thereof shall never be forgotten.
Give the Lord his honor with a good and liberal eye, and diminish not the first fruits of thine hands.
In all thy gifts show a joyful countenance, and dedicate thy tithes with gladness.
Give unto the most High according as he has enriched thee, and look what thine hand is able, give with a cheerful eye.
For the Lord recompenses, and will give thee seven times as much.
Diminish nothing of thine offering: for he will not receivec it, and absent from wrongful sacrifices: for the Lord is the judge, and regards no man’s person.
He accepts not the person of the poor, but he hears the prayer of their oppressed.
He despises not the desire of the fatherless, nor the widow, when she pours out her prayer.
Do not the tears run down the widows cheeks? and her cry is against him that causes them: [for from her cheek do they go up unto heaven, and the Lord which hears them, does accept them.]
He that serves the Lord, shall be accepted with favor, and his prayer shall reach unto the clouds.
The prayer of him that humbles himself, goes through the clouds, and ceases not til it come near, and will not depart til the most High have respect thereunto to judge righteously, and to execute judgement.
And the Lord will not be slack, nor the Almighty will tarry long from them, til he hath smitten asunder the loins of the unmerciful, and avenge himself of the heathen, til he have taken away the multitude of the cruel, and broken the scepter of the unrighteous, til he give every man after his works, and reward them after their devices, til he have judged the cause of his people, and comforted them with his mercy.
Oh, how fair a thing is mercy in the time of anguish and trouble! It is like a cloud of rain, that comes in the time of a drought.
Ecclesiasticus 36
2 A prayer to God in the person of all faithful men, against those that persecute his Church. 22 The praise of a good woman.
HAVE mercy upon us, o Lord God of all things, and behold us, and [show us the light of thy mercies,]
And send thy fear among the nations, which seek not after thee, [that they may know that there is no God but thou, and that they may show thy wondrous works.]
Lift up thine hand upon the strange nations, that they may see thy power.
As thou art sanctified in us before them, so be thou magnified among them before us,
That they may know thee, as we know thee: for there is none other God but only thou, o Lord.
Renew the signs, and change the wonders: show the glory of thine hand, and thy right arm, that they may show forth thy wondrous acts.
Raise up thine indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the adversary, and smite the enemy.
Make the time short: remember thine oath, that thy wondrous works may be praised.
Let the wrath of the fire consume that that escape, and let them perish that oppress the people.
Smite asunder the heads of the princes that be our enemies, and say, There is no other but we.
Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, [that they may know that there is none other God but only thou, and that they may show thy wondrous works,] and inherit thou them as from the beginning.
O Lord, have mercy upon the people, that is called by thy Name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast likened to a first born son.
Oh, be merciful unto Jerusalem the city of thy Sanctuary, the city of thy rest.
Fill Sion, that it may magnify thine oracles, and fill thy people with thy glory.
Give witness unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up the prophecies may be found faithful.
O Lord, hear the prayer of thy servants according to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, [and guide thou us in the way of righteousness] that all they which dwell upon the earth, may know that thou art the Lord the eternal God.
The belly devours all meats, yet is one meat better than another.
As the throat tastes venison, so does a wise mind discern false words.
A froward heart brings grief, but a man of experience will resist it.
A woman is apt to receive every man: yet is one daughter better than another.
The beauty of a woman cheers the face, and a man loves nothing better.
If there be in her tongue gentleness, meekness, and wholesome talk, then is not her husband like other men.
He that hath gotten a [virtuous] woman, hath begun to get a possession: she is an help like unto himself, and a pillar to rest upon.
Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hath no wife, wanders to and fro, mourning.
Who will trust a thief that is always ready and wanders from town to town, and likewise him, that hath no rest, and lodges, wheresoever the night takes him.
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