Sirach 49  New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ Except for David and Hezekiah and Josiah,
    all of them were great sinners,
for they abandoned the law of the Most High;
    the kings of Judah came to an end.
⁵ They^[c] gave their power to others,
    and their glory to a foreign nation,
⁶ who set fire to the chosen city of the sanctuary,
    and made its streets desolate,
    as Jeremiah had foretold.^[d]
7 For they had maltreated him,
    who even in the womb had been consecrated a prophet,
to pluck up and ruin and destroy,
    and likewise to build and to plant.

⁸ It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory,
    which God^[e] showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
⁹ For God^[f] also mentioned Job
    who held fast to all the ways of justice.^[g]
10 May the bones of the Twelve Prophets
    send forth new life from where they lie,
for they comforted the people of Jacob
    and delivered them with confident hope.

¹¹ How shall we magnify Zerubbabel?
    He was like a signet ring on the right hand,
¹²     and so was Jeshua son of Jozadak;
in their days they built the house
    and raised a temple^[h] holy to the Lord,
    destined for everlasting glory.
¹³ The memory of Nehemiah also is lasting;
    he raised our fallen walls,
and set up gates and bars,
    and rebuilt our ruined houses.