Ecclesiasticus 49

¹The memory of Josias is according to the confection of perfume made by the work of an apothecary.

²His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, & as music in a banquet of wine.

³He was directed by God into the repentance of the nation, and he took away the abominations of impiety.

⁴And he governed his heart toward our Lord, and in the days of sinners he strengthened piety.

⁵Except David, and Ezechias, and Josias, all committed sin.

⁶For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the Highest, and contemned the fear of God.

⁷For they gave their kingdom to others and their glory to a strange nation.

⁸They burnt the chosen city of holiness, & made the ways thereof desolate in the hand of Jeremie.

⁹For they evil entreated him, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, & pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew.

¹⁰Ezechiel who saw the sight of glory, which he shewed him in the chariot of Cherubs.

¹¹For he made mention of the enemies in rain, to do good unto them, that have shewed right ways.

¹²And the bones of the twelve prophets well may they spring out of their place: for they have strengthened Jacob, and have redeemed themselves in the fidelity of power.

¹³How may we magnify Zorobabel? For he also was as a signet on the right hand,

¹⁴and so Jesus the son of Josedec: who in their days built the house, and erected the holy temple to our Lord, prepared to everlasting glory.

¹⁵And Nehemias in the memory of much time, who erected us our walls overthrown, and set up the gates and locks, who built our houses.

¹⁶No man hath been born in the earth like to Henoch: for he also was taken up from the earth.

¹⁷Neither as Joseph, who was a man born Prince of his brethren, the stay of the nation, the ruler of his brethren, the stay of the people:

¹⁸and his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied.

¹⁹Seth, and Sem obtained glory with men: and above every soul, in the beginning Adam.