Sirach 49:1–9
1The memory of Josiah is like the composition of incense prepared by the work of the perfumer. It will be sweet as honey in every mouth, and like music at a banquet of wine.↗
2He did what was right in the reforming of the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity.↗
3He set his heart right toward the Lord. In lawless days, he made godliness prevail.↗
4Except David, Hezekiah, and Josiah, all were wicked, because they abandoned the law of the Most High. The kings of Judah came to an end.↗
5They gave their power to others, and their glory to a foreign nation.↗
6They set the chosen city of the sanctuary on fire and made her streets desolate, as it was written by the hand of Jeremiah.↗
7For they mistreated him; yet he was sanctified in the womb to be a prophet, to root out, to afflict, to destroy and likewise to build and to plant.↗
8Ezekiel saw the vision of glory, which God showed him on the chariot of the cherubim.↗
9For truly he remembered the enemies in rainstorm, and to do good to those who directed their ways aright.↗
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