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Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling (Enhanced) - Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)

Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 43

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1The firmament of highness is the fairness thereof or The firmament of the height is the fairness of him; the fairness of heaven in the sight of glory.
2The sun in beholding, telling in going out, is a wonderful vessel, the work of (the) high God or the (Most) High.
3In the time of midday it burneth the earth; and who shall be able to suffer (or to endure) in the sight of his (or its) heat?
4Keeping a furnace in the works of heat; the sun burning hills in three manners, sending out beams of fire or blasting out fiery beams, and shining again with his (or its) beams, blindeth (the) eyes.
5The Lord is great, that made it; and in the words of him it hast(en)ed (its) journey or hied the way.
6And the moon in all men or things in his (or its) time is (a) show-ing of time, and a sign of the world.
7A sign of the feast or holy day is taken of (or from) the moon; the light which is made little in the end.
8The month is increasing by or after the name thereof, wonderfully into the ending. A vessel of castles (or of the hosts) in high things, shining gloriously in the firmament of heaven.
9The fairness of heaven is the glory of stars; the Lord on high lighteneth the world.
10In (or At) the words of the Holy (One), those (or they) shall stand at the doom; and those shall not fail in their wakings or their watches.
11See thou the rainbow, and bless thou him that made it; it is full fair in his (or its) shining.
12It went about heaven in the compass or the circuit of his (or its) glory; the hands of (the) high God or the (Most) High opened it.
13By his commandment he hast(en)-ed the snow; and he hast(en)eth to send out the lightnings of his doom.
14Therefore (the) treasures were opened, and clouds fled out or flew away as bees or birds.
15In his greatness he setted the clouds; and stones of hail were broken.
16Hills shall be moved in (or at) his sight; and the south wind shall blow in (or at) his will.
17The voice of his thunder shall beat or beateth the earth; the tem-pest of the north, and the gathering together of (the) wind. And as a bird putting down to sit sprinkleth (or scattereth the) snow, and the coming down of that snow is as a locust drenching (or drowning) down.
18The eye shall wonder or marvel on the fairness of (the) whiteness thereof; and an heart dreadeth or the heart quaketh on the rain thereof.

19He shall shed or pour out frost as salt on the earth; and while the wind bloweth, it shall be made as (the) cops (or tops) of a briar or the bramble (bush).
20The cold northern wind blew, and (the) crystal of (the) water froze together; it resteth on all the gather-ing together of waters, and it clotheth itself with waters, as with an habergeon (or breastplate).
21And it shall devour hills, and it shall burn the desert; and it shall quench green thing as fire.
22The medicine of all things is in the hast(en)ing of a cloud; a dew, meeting the heat coming of (or after the) burning, shall make it low.
23The wind was still or held his peace in (or by) the word of God; by his thought he made peaceable the depth of (the) waters; and the Lord Jesus, that is, God, which is (the) Saviour of all men, planted it.
24They that sail in (or on) the sea, tell out the perils thereof; and we hearing with our ears, shall wonder.
25There be full clear works, and wonderful or marvellous, diverse kinds of beasts, and of all little beasts, and the creature(s), (or the creation), of wonderful fishes.
26The end of (the) way is confirmed for it or (by) him; and all things be made in (or by) the word of him.
27We say many things, and (yet) we fail in words; forsooth he is the (full) ending of words.
28To what thing shall we be mighty, that have (or who hath) glory in all things? for he is all-mighty above or over all his works.
29The Lord is fearedful, and full great; and his power is wonderful.
30Glorify ye the Lord as much as ever ye may or as ye be able to, yet he shall be mightier; and his great doing is wonderful or marvellous. Ye blessing the Lord, enhance (or exalt) him as much as ye may or as ye be able to; for he is more than all praising. Ye enhancing him shall be filled with virtue; travail ye not to know God perfectly in this life, for ye shall not take (or shall not receive it) perfectly, that is, for it is unpossible.
31Who saw him, and shall tell (it) out? and who shall magnify him, as he is from the beginning?
32Many things greater than these be hid from us; for we have seen (only a) few things of his works.
33Forsooth the Lord made all things; and he gave wisdom to men doing faithfully or piously.