English Bible
Sirach 2
Big screen- 1My son, if you come to serve the Lord, prepare your soul for temptation.
- 2Set your heart aright, and constantly endure, and make not haste in time of trouble.
- 3Cleave to him, and depart not away, that you may be increased at your last end.
- 4Whatsoever is brought upon you take cheerfully, and be patient when you are changed to a low estate.
- 5For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
- 6Believe in him, and he will help you; order your way aright, and trust in him.
- 7You° that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and go not aside, lest you° fall.
- 8You° that fear the Lord, believe him; and your reward shall not fail.
- 9You° that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy.
- 10Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?
- 11For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, and very pitiful, and forgives sins, and saves in time of affliction.
- 12Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, and the sinner that goes two ways!
- 13Woe to him that is faint-hearted! for he believes not; therefore shall he not be defended.
- 14Woe to you that have lost patience! and what will you° do when the Lord shall visit you?
- 15They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they that love him will keep his ways.
- 16They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well, pleasing to him; and they that love him shall be filled with the law.
- 17They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and humble their souls in his sight,
- 18Saying, We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.