New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ben Sira 36:2-12 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

2. and put all the nations in dread of you!

3. Raise your hand against the foreign people,that they may see your mighty deeds.

4. As you have used us to show them your holiness,so now use them to show us your glory.

5. Thus they will know, as we know,that there is no God but you.

6. Give new signs and work new wonders;

7. show forth the splendor of your right hand and arm.

8. Rouse your anger, pour out wrath;

9. humble the enemy, scatter the foe.

10. Hasten the ending, appoint the time,and let people proclaim your mighty deeds.

11. Let raging fire consume the fugitive,and your people’s oppressors meet destruction.

12. Crush the heads of the hostile rulerswho say, “There is no one besides me.”