Sirach · 51
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Oratio Jesu filii Sirach. Confitebor tibi, Domine rex, et collaudabo te Deum salvatorem meum.
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Confitebor nomini tuo, quoniam adjutor et protector factus es mihi,
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et liberasti corpus meum a perditione : a laqueo linguæ iniquæ, et a labiis operantium mendacium : et in conspectu astantium factus es mihi adjutor.
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Et liberasti me, secundum multitudinem misericordiæ nominis tui, a rugientibus præparatis ad escam :
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de manibus quærentium animam meam, et de portis tribulationum quæ circumdederunt me ;
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a pressura flammæ quæ circumdedit me, et in medio ignis non sum æstuatus ;
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de altitudine ventris inferi, et a lingua coinquinata, et a verbo mendacii, a rege iniquo, et a lingua injusta.
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Laudabit usque ad mortem anima mea Dominum,
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et vita mea appropinquans erat in inferno deorsum.
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Circumdederunt me undique, et non erat qui adjuvaret : respiciens eram ad adjutorium hominum, et non erat.
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Memoratus sum misericordiæ tuæ Domine, et operationis tuæ, quæ a sæculo sunt :
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quoniam eruis sustinentes te, Domine, et liberas eos de manibus gentium.
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Exaltasti super terram habitationem meam, et pro morte defluente deprecatus sum.
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Invocavi Dominum patrem Domini mei, ut non derelinquat me in die tribulationis meæ, et in tempore superborum, sine adjutorio.
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Laudabo nomen tuum assidue, et collaudabo illud in confessione : et exaudita est oratio mea,
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et liberasti me de perditione, et eripuisti me de tempore iniquo.
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Propterea confitebor, et laudem dicam tibi, et benedicam nomini Domini.
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Cum adhuc junior essem, priusquam oberrarem, quæsivi sapientiam palam in oratione mea.
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Ante templum postulabam pro illis, et usque in novissimis inquiram eam : et effloruit tamquam præcox uva.
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Lætatum est cor meum in ea : ambulavit pes meus iter rectum : a juventute mea investigabam eam.
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Inclinavi modico aurem meam, et excepi illam.
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Multam inveni in meipso sapientiam, et multum profeci in ea.
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Danti mihi sapientiam dabo gloriam :
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consiliatus sum enim ut facerem illam. Zelatus sum bonum, et non confundar.
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Colluctata est anima mea in illa, et in faciendo eam confirmatus sum.
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Manus meas extendi in altum, et insipientiam ejus luxi ;
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animam meam direxi ad illam, et in agnitione inveni eam.
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Possedi cum ipsa cor ab initio : propter hoc, non derelinquar.
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Venter meus conturbatus est quærendo illam : propterea bonam possidebo possessionem.
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Dedit mihi Dominus linguam mercedem meam, et in ipsa laudabo eum.
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Appropiate ad me, indocti, et congregate vos in domum disciplinæ.
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Quid adhuc retardatis ? et quid dicitis in his ? animæ vestræ sitiunt vehementer.
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Aperui os meum, et locutus sum : Comparate vobis sine argento,
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et collum vestrum subjicite jugo : et suscipiat anima vestra disciplinam : in proximo est enim invenire eam.
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Videte oculis vestris, quia modicum laboravi, et inveni mihi multam requiem.
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Assumite disciplinam in multo numero argenti, et copiosum aurum possidete in ea.
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Lætetur anima vestra in misericordia ejus, et non confundemini in laude ipsius.
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Operamini opus vestrum ante tempus, et dabit vobis mercedem vestram in tempore suo.
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