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Sirach 35:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He who serves God according to his good pleasure will be accepted. His supplication will reach to the clouds. "

Sirach 35:16

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14 He will in no way despise the supplication of the fatherless or the widow, when she pours out her tale.

15 Don’t the tears of the widow run down her cheek? Isn’t her cry against him who has caused them to fall?

16 He who serves God according to his good pleasure will be accepted. His supplication will reach to the clouds.

17 The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds. until it comes near, he will not be comforted. He won’t depart until the Most High visits and he judges righteously and executes judgment.

18 And the Lord will not be slack, neither will he be patient toward them, until he has crushed the loins of the unmerciful. He will repay vengeance to the heathen until he has taken away the multitude of the arrogant and broken in pieces the sceptres of the unrighteous,

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