Sirach 36:1-17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

36 Have mercy upon us, O God^[a] of all,
²     and put all the nations in fear of you.
³ Lift up your hand against foreign nations
    and let them see your might.
⁴ As you have used us to show your holiness to them,
    so use them to show your glory to us.
⁵ Then they will know,^[b] as we have known,
    that there is no God but you, O Lord.
⁶ Give new signs, and work other wonders;
⁷     make your hand and right arm glorious.
⁸ Rouse your anger and pour out your wrath;
⁹     destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy.
¹⁰ Hasten the day, and remember the appointed time,^[c]
    and let people recount your mighty deeds.
¹¹ Let survivors be consumed in the fiery wrath,
    and may those who harm your people meet destruction.
¹² Crush the heads of hostile rulers
    who say, “There is no one but ourselves.”
¹³ Gather all the tribes of Jacob,^[d]
16     and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning.
¹⁷ Have mercy, O Lord, on the people called by your name,
    on Israel, whom you have named^[e] your firstborn,