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For they had afflicted him;
    yet he had been consecrated in the womb as prophet,
to pluck up and afflict and destroy,
    and likewise to build and to plant.

It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory
    which God[a] showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
For God[b] remembered his enemies with storm,
    and did good to those who directed their ways aright.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 49:8 Gk he
  2. Sirach 49:9 Gk he
  3. Sirach 49:9 The text and meaning of this verse are uncertain

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