Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation And the Lord will act quickly. He will show no patience with wicked people. He will take vengeance by crushing the heathen. He will completely wipe out the merciless and the arrogant, and will destroy the authority of the wicked. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall? Sirach 35:16The Lord will not accept any person against a poor man, and he will hear the prayer of him that is wronged. Sirach 35:17 He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint. Sirach 35:19 For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that heareth will not be delighted with them. Sirach 35:20 He that adoreth God with joy, shall be accepted, and his prayer shall approach even to the clouds. Context Sirach 35…17He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint. 18Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall? 19For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that heareth will not be delighted with them.… Cross References Sirach 35:16 The Lord will not accept any person against a poor man, and he will hear the prayer of him that is wronged. Sirach 35:17 He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint. Sirach 35:19 For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that heareth will not be delighted with them. Sirach 35:20 He that adoreth God with joy, shall be accepted, and his prayer shall approach even to the clouds. |
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