Sirach Chapter 48: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

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¹ Then Elijah arose, the prophet like fire. His word burned like a torch. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal made them few in number. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens. He brought down fire three times. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ How you were glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is like yours? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ You raised up a dead man from death, from Hades, by the word of the Most High. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ You brought down kings to destruction, and honorable men from their sickbeds. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ You heard rebuke in Sinai, and judgments of vengeance in Horeb. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ You anointed kings for retribution, and prophets to succeed after you. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ You were taken up in a tempest of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ You were recorded for reproofs in their seasons, to pacify anger, before it broke out into wrath, to turn the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ Blessed are those who saw you, and those who have been beautified with love; for we also shall surely live. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² Elijah was wrapped in a whirlwind. Elisha was filled with his spirit. In his days he was not moved by the fear of any ruler, and no one brought him into subjection. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ Nothing was too hard for him. When he was buried, his body prophesied. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ As in his life he did wonders, so his works were also marvelous in death. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ For all this the people didn’t repent. They didn’t depart from their sins, until they were carried away as a plunder from their land, and were scattered through all the earth. The people were left very few in number, but with a ruler from the house of David. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ Some of them did that which was right, but some multiplied sins. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into its midst. He tunneled through rock with iron, and built cisterns for water. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ In his days Sennacherib invaded, and sent Rabshakeh, and departed. He lifted up his hand against Zion, and boasted great things in his arrogance. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ Then their hearts and their hands were shaken, and they were in pain, as women in labor. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ But they called upon the Lord who is merciful, spreading out their hands to him. The Holy One quickly heard them out of Heaven, and delivered them by the hand of Isaiah. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ He struck the camp of the Assyrians, and his angel utterly destroyed them. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² For Hezekiah did that which was pleasing to the Lord, and was strong in the ways of his ancestor David, which Isaiah the prophet commanded, who was great and faithful in his vision. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ In his days the sun went backward. He prolonged the life of the king. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ He saw by an excellent spirit what would come to pass in the future; and he comforted those who mourned in Zion. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ He showed the things that would happen through the end of time, and the hidden things before they came. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)