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# Sirach 2

Sirach 2 is chapter 2 of 51 in the Book of Sirach. Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> God's servants must look for temptations: and must arm themselves with patience and confidence in God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Sirach 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Son, when you apply yourself to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare your soul for temptation.
2. Humble your heart, and persevere. Incline your ear, and accept words of understanding. And you should not hurry away in the time of distress.
3. Endure steadfastly for God. Join yourself to God, and persevere, so that your life may increase in the very end.
4. Accept everything that will happen to you, and persevere in your sorrow, and have patience in your humiliation.
5. For gold and silver are tested in fire, yet truly, acceptable men are tested in the furnace of humiliation.
6. Believe God, and he will restore you to health. And straighten your way, and hope in him. Observe his fear, and grow old in it.
7. You who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy. And do not turn away from him, lest you fall.
8. You who fear the Lord, believe in him. And your reward will not be taken away.
9. You who fear the Lord, hope in him. And mercy will approach you, to your delight.
10. You who fear the Lord, love him. And your hearts will be illuminated.
11. My sons, consider the nations of men, and know that not one of them hoped in the Lord and was confounded.
12. For who has remained in his commandment and been abandoned? Or who has called upon him, and yet he despised him?
13. For God is upright and merciful, and he will forgive sins in the day of tribulation. And he is the Protector to all those who seek him in truth.
14. Woe to the duplicitous heart, and to the wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner who walks the earth by two ways!
15. Woe to the dissolute in heart, who do not trust God! For, as a result, they will not be protected by him.
16. Woe to those who have lost endurance, and who have abandoned upright ways, and who have turned aside to depraved ways!
17. And what will they do when the Lord begins to examine them?
18. Those who fear the Lord will not be unbelieving toward his Word. And those who love him will keep to his way.
19. Those who fear the Lord will seek the things that are well-pleasing to him. And those who love him will be filled with his law.
20. Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and they will sanctify their souls in his sight.
21. Those who fear the Lord keep his commandments, and they will have patience even until his examination,
22. saying: “If we do not do penance, then we will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men.”
23. For according to his greatness, so also is his mercy with him.

## Sirach 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Fili, accedens ad servitutem Dei sta in justitia et timore, et præpara animam tuam ad tentationem.
2. Deprime cor tuum, et sustine: inclina aurem tuam, et suscipe verba intellectus: et ne festines in tempore obductionis.
3. Sustine sustentationes Dei: conjungere Deo, et sustine, ut crescat in novissimo vita tua.
4. Omne quod tibi applicitum fuerit accipe: et in dolore sustine, et in humilitate tua patientiam habe:
5. quoniam in igne probatur aurum et argentum, homines vero receptibiles in camino humiliationis.
6. Crede Deo, et recuperabit te: et dirige viam tuam, et spera in illum: serva timorem illius, et in illo veterasce.
7. Metuentes Dominum, sustinete misericordiam ejus: et non deflectatis ab illo, ne cadatis.
8. Qui timetis Dominum, credite illi, et non evacuabitur merces vestra.
9. Qui timetis Dominum, sperate in illum, et in oblectationem veniet vobis misericordia.
10. Qui timetis Dominum, diligite illum, et illuminabuntur corda vestra.
11. Respicite, filii, nationes hominum: et scitote quia nullus speravit in Domino et confusus est.
12. Quis enim permansit in mandatis ejus, et derelictus est? aut quis invocavit eum, et despexit illum?
13. Quoniam pius et misericors est Deus, et remittet in die tribulationis peccata, et protector est omnibus exquirentibus se in veritate.
14. Væ duplici corde, et labiis scelestis, et manibus malefacientibus, et peccatori terram ingredienti duabus viis!
15. 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.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, May 18, 2027: Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Sirach 2:1-11

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).