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# Sirach 49

Sirach 49 is chapter 49 of 51 in the Book of Sirach. Here are all 19 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The praise of Josias, of Jeremias, Ezechiel, and the twelve prophets. Also of Zorobabel, Jesus the son of Josedech, Nehemias, Enoch, Joseph, Seth, Sem, and Adam.
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> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Sirach 49 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The memory of Josiah is like a blend of fragrances composed by the work of a perfumer.
2. His remembrance will be sweet like honey in every mouth, and like music at a banquet of wine.
3. He was divinely directed for the repentance of the nation, and he took away the abominations of impiety.
4. And he guided his heart toward the Lord. And during the days of sinners, he strengthened piety.
5. Other than David, and Hezekiah, and Josiah, everyone committed sin.
6. For the kings of Judah abandoned the law of the Most High, and they held contempt for the fear of God.
7. For they gave their kingdom to foreigners, and their glory to a strange people.
8. They set fire to the chosen city of sanctity, and they made its streets desolate, in accord with the hand of Jeremiah.
9. For they treated him wickedly, though he was consecrated as a prophet from his mother’s womb: to overthrow, and to root out, and to destroy, and also to rebuild and to renew.
10. It was Ezekiel who saw a vision of glory, which was revealed to him with the chariot of the Cherubim.
11. For it called to mind the enemies under the figure of rain, to do good to those who have revealed the upright ways.
12. And may the bones of the twelve prophets spring up from their place. For they strengthened Jacob, and they redeemed themselves with a virtuous faith.
13. How will we magnify Zerubbabel? For he, too, was like a signet on the right hand.
14. So also was Jesus, the son of Jozadak, who in their days built the house, and raised up a holy temple to the Lord, as a preparation for everlasting glory.
15. And may Nehemiah be remembered for a long time. He raised up for us the walls that had been torn down. And he made firm the gates and the bars. He raised up our houses.
16. No one has been born upon the earth like Enoch. And he was also taken up from the earth.
17. And there was no one like Joseph, who was a man born to be foremost among his brothers, the firmament of his clan, a guide to his brethren, the mainstay of his people.
18. And his bones were visited, and after death, they prophesied.
19. Shem and Seth obtained glory among men. And above every soul, at the very beginning, was Adam.

## Sirach 49 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Memoria Josiæ in compositionem odoris facta opus pigmentarii.
2. In omni ore quasi mel indulcabitur ejus memoria, et ut musica in convivio vini.
3. Ipse est directus divinitus in pœnitentiam gentis, et tulit abominationes impietatis.
4. Et gubernavit ad Dominum cor ipsius, et in diebus peccatorum corroboravit pietatem.
5. Præter David et Ezechiam et Josiam, omnes peccatum commiserunt:
6. nam reliquerunt legem Altissimi reges Juda, et contempserunt timorem Dei.
7. Dederunt enim regnum suum aliis, et gloriam suam alienigenæ genti.
8. Incenderunt electam sanctitatis civitatem, et desertas fecerunt vias ipsius in manu Jeremiæ.
9. Nam male tractaverunt illum qui a ventre matris consecratus est propheta, evertere, et eruere, et perdere, et iterum ædificare, et renovare:
10. Ezechiel, qui vidit conspectum gloriæ quam ostendit illi in curru cherubim.
11. Nam commemoratus est inimicorum in imbre, benefacere illis qui ostenderunt rectas vias.
12. Et duodecim prophetarum ossa pullulent de loco suo: nam corroboraverunt Jacob, et redemerunt se in fide virtutis.
13. Quomodo amplificemus Zorobabel? nam et ipse quasi signum in dextera manu:
14. sic et Jesum filium Josedec, qui in diebus suis ædificaverunt domum, et exaltaverunt templum sanctum Domino, paratum in gloriam sempiternam.
15. Et Nehemias in memoriam multi temporis, qui erexit nobis muros eversos, et stare fecit portas et seras, qui erexit domos nostras.
16. Nemo natus est in terra qualis Henoch, nam et ipse receptus est a terra:
17. neque ut Joseph, qui natus est homo princeps fratrum, firmamentum gentis, rector fratrum, stabilimentum populi:
18. et ossa ipsius visitata sunt, et post mortem prophetaverunt.
19. Seth et Sem apud homines gloriam adepti sunt, et super omnem animam in origine Adam.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 18: “They prophesied” … That is, by their being carried out of Egypt they verified the prophetic prediction of Joseph. Gen. 50.

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