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# Sirach 46

Sirach 46 is chapter 46 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.

> The praise of Josue, of Caleb, and of Samuel.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Sirach 46 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Joshua, the son of Nun, was valiant in warfare; he was the successor of Moses among the prophets. He was great in accord with his name,
2. very great in saving the elect of God. He fought against the insurgent enemies, so that he might obtain the inheritance for Israel.
3. What great glory he secured, by lifting up his hands and throwing his spears against the cities!
4. Who before him has stood so firmly? For the Lord himself led forward the enemies.
5. Was not the sun halted by his wrath, and one day made as if two?
6. He called upon the Most High Power, when the enemies assailed him on every side. And the great and holy God answered him with hailstones of exceedingly great force.
7. He made a violent assault against a hostile nation, and at his descent, he destroyed his adversaries,
8. so that the nations would acknowledge his power: that it is not easy to fight against God. And he followed the Almighty.
9. And in the days of Moses, he accomplished a work of mercy. He and Caleb, the son of Jephuneh, stood against the enemy, and forbid the people from sin, and broke their wicked murmuring.
10. And these two, having been appointed, were freed from peril, from foot soldiers numbering six hundred thousand, so as to lead them into their inheritance, into a land flowing with milk and honey.
11. And the Lord gave strength to Caleb also, and his strength remained even in his old age, so that he ascended to the high places of the land, and his offspring obtained it as an inheritance.
12. This was so that all the sons of Israel would see that it is good to obey the holy God.
13. Then there were the judges, each one called by name, whose heart was not corrupted. They did not turn away from the Lord,
14. so that their memory might be blessed, and their bones might spring forth from their place,
15. and their name might remain forever, continuing in their sons, holy men of glory.
16. Samuel, prophet of the Lord, beloved by the Lord his God, established a new government, and he anointed leaders over his people.
17. By the law of the Lord, he judged the congregation, and the God of Jacob saw it, and so, by his fidelity, he was proven to be a prophet.
18. And he was known to be faithful in his words. For he saw the God of light.
19. And when fighting against the enemies, who stood against him on every side, he called upon the name of the Almighty Lord, with an offering of an inviolate lamb.
20. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise, he made his voice to be heard.
21. And he crushed the leaders of the Tyrians, and all the commanders of the Philistines.
22. And before the time of the end of his life in the world, he offered testimony in the sight of the Lord and of his Christ, that he had not taken a bribe from any flesh, not even so much as a shoe, and that no man made an accusation against him.
23. And after this, he slept. And he made known to the king and revealed to him the end of his life. And he lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, to abolish the impiety of the people.

## Sirach 46 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Fortis in bello Jesus Nave, successor Moysi in prophetis, qui fuit magnus secundum nomen suum,
2. maximus in salutem electorum Dei, expugnare insurgentes hostes, ut consequeretur hæreditatem Israël.
3. Quam gloriam adeptus est in tollendo manus suas, et jactando contra civitates rhomphæas!
4. Quis ante illum sic restitit? nam hostes ipse Dominus perduxit.
5. An non in iracundia ejus impeditus est sol, et una dies facta est quasi duo?
6. Invocavit Altissimum potentem, in oppugnando inimicos undique: et audivit illum magnus et sanctus Deus, in saxis grandinis virtutis valde fortis.
7. Impetum fecit contra gentem hostilem, et in descensu perdidit contrarios:
8. ut cognoscant gentes potentiam ejus, quia contra Deum pugnare non est facile. Et secutus est a tergo potentis:
9. et in diebus Moysi misericordiam fecit, ipse, et Caleb filius Jephone, stare contra hostem, et prohibere gentem a peccatis, et perfringere murmur malitiæ.
10. Et ipsi duo constituti a periculo liberati sunt a numero sexcentorum millium peditum, inducere illos in hæreditatem, in terram quæ manat lac et mel.
11. Et dedit Dominus ipsi Caleb fortitudinem, et usque in senectutem permansit illi virtus, ut ascenderet in excelsum terræ locum, et semen ipsius obtinuit hæreditatem,
12. ut viderent omnes filii Israël quia bonum est obsequi sancto Deo.
13. Et judices singuli suo nomine, quorum non est corruptum cor, qui non aversi sunt a Domino,
14. ut sit memoria illorum in benedictione, et ossa eorum pullulent de loco suo:
15. et nomen eorum permaneat in æternum, permanens ad filios illorum, sanctorum virorum gloria.
16. Dilectus a Domino Deo suo Samuel, propheta Domini, renovavit imperium, et unxit principes in gente sua.
17. In lege Domini congregationem judicavit, et vidit Deus Jacob: et in fide sua probatus est propheta,
18. et cognitus est in verbis suis fidelis, quia vidit Deum lucis.
19. Et invocavit Dominum omnipotentem, in oppugnando hostes circumstantes undique, in oblatione agni inviolati.
20. Et intonuit de cælo Dominus, et in sonitu magno auditam fecit vocem suam:
21. et contrivit principes Tyriorum, et omnes duces Philisthiim:
22. et ante tempus finis vitæ suæ et sæculi, testimonium præbuit in conspectu Domini et christi: pecunias et usque ad calceamenta ab omni carne non accepit, et non accusavit illum homo.
23. Et post hoc dormivit: et notum fecit regi, et ostendit illi finem vitæ suæ: et exaltavit vocem suam de terra in prophetia, delere impietatem gentis.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: So Josue is named in the Greek Bibles. For Josue and Jesus signify the same thing, viz., a saviour.
- Verse 7: Of Beth-horon (Jos. 10.).

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