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Ben Sira 43:5
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Ben Sira 43:5
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Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course.
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At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat:
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The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes.
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Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course.
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And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world.
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From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.
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