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chapter 3
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now, O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, the soul in anguish, and the troubled
spirit crieth to thee:
2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for thou art a merciful
God, and have pity on us: for we have sinned before thee.
3 For thou remainest for ever, and shall we perish
everlastingly?
4 O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the
prayer of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before
thee, and have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, wherefore
evils have cleaved fast to us.
5 Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but think
upon thy hand, and upon thy name at this time:
6 For thou art the Lord our God, and we will praise
thee, O Lord:
7 Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our
hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our
captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned
before thee.
8 And behold we are at this day in our captivity,
whereby thou hast scattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence,
according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord
our God.
9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear,
that thou mayst learn wisdom.
10 How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thy
enemies' land?
11 Thou art grown old in a strange country, thou art
defiled with the dead: thou art counted with them that go down into hell.
12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom :
13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou
hadst surely dwelt in peace for ever.
14 Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is
understanding: that thou mayst know also where is length of days and life,
where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
15 Who hath found out her place? and who hath gone in
to her treasures?
16 Where are the princes of the nations, and they that
rule over the beasts that are upon the earth?
17 That take their diversion with the birds of the air.
18 That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust,
and there is no end of their getting? who work in silver and are solicitous,
and their works are unsearchable.
19 They are cut off, and are gone down to hell, and
others are risen up in their place.
20 Young men have seen the light, and dwelt upon the
earth: but the way of knowledge they have not known,
21 Nor have they understood the paths thereof, neither
have their children received it, it is far from their face.
22 It hath not been heard of in the land of Chanaan,
neither hath it been seen in Theman.
23 The children of Agar also, that search after the
wisdom that is of the earth, the merchants of Merrha, and of Theman, and the
tellers of fables, and searchers of prudence and understanding: but the way of
wisdom they have not known, neither have they remembered her paths.
24 O Israel, how great is the house of God, and how
vast is the place of his possession!
25 It is great, and hath no end: it is high and
immense.
26 There were the giants, those renowned men that were
from the beginning, of great stature, expert in war.
27 The Lord chose not them, neither did they find the
way of knowledge: therefore did they perish.
28 And because they had not wisdom, they perished
through their folly.
29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and
brought her down from the clouds?
30 Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and
brought her preferably to chosen gold?
31 There is none that is able to know her ways, nor
that can search out her paths :
32 But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and
hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for
evermore, and filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts:
33 He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth: and hath
called it, and it obeyeth him with trembling.
34 And the stars have given light in their watches, and
rejoiced:
35 They were called, and they said: Here we are: and
with cheerfuIness they have shined forth to him that made them.
36 This is our God, and there shall no other be
accounted of in comparison of him.
37 He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it
to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.
38 Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed
with men.
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