Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiasticus 51:11-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy works, which are from the beginning of the world.

12. How thou deliverest them that wait for thee, O Lord, and savest them out of the hands of the nations.

13. Thou hast exalted my dwelling place upon the earth and I have prayed for death to pass away.

14. I called upon the Lord, the father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the day of my trouble, and in the time of the proud without help.

15. I will praise thy name continually, and will praise it with thanksgiving, and my prayer was heard.

16. And thou hast saved me from destruction, and hast delivered me from the evil time.

17. Therefore I will give thanks, and praise thee, and bless the name of the Lord.

18. When I was yet young, before I wandered about, I sought for wisdom openly in my prayer.