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Sirach 49:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They set the chosen city of the sanctuary on fire and made her streets desolate, as it was written by the hand of Jeremiah. "

Sirach 49:6

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4 Except David, Hezekiah, and Josiah, all were wicked, because they abandoned the law of the Most High. The kings of Judah came to an end.

5 They gave their power to others, and their glory to a foreign nation.

6 They set the chosen city of the sanctuary on fire and made her streets desolate, as it was written by the hand of Jeremiah.

7 For 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.

8 Ezekiel saw the vision of glory, which God showed him on the chariot of the cherubim.

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1 Maccabees 4:38

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"They saw the sanctuary laid desolate, the altar profaned, the gates burned up, shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest or as on one of the mountains, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;"

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Jeremiah 25:18

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"Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;"

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2 Maccabees 8:17

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"setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the torture of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the way of life received from their ancestors."

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1 Maccabees 6:7

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"and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem, and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and also Bethsura, his city."

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Jeremiah 44:6

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"Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’"

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Judith 5:18

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"But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was razed to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries."

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Sirach 49:1

"The 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."

Sirach 49:2

"He did what was right in the reforming of the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity."

Sirach 49:3

"He set his heart right toward the Lord. In lawless days, he made godliness prevail."

Sirach 49:4

"Except David, Hezekiah, and Josiah, all were wicked, because they abandoned the law of the Most High. The kings of Judah came to an end."

Sirach 49:5

"They gave their power to others, and their glory to a foreign nation."

Sirach 49:7

"For 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."

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