Sirach 39 (Greek, Swete)

Bible/Old Testament · Sirach · greek · L0 witness

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Source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Sirach 39; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)

Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).

Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)

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39:1σοφίαν πάντων ἀρχαίων ἐκζητήσει, καὶ ἐν προφητείαις ἀσχοληθήσεται·
39:2διηγήσεις ἀνδρῶν ὀνομαστῶν συντηρήσει, καὶ ἐυ στροφαῖς παραβολῶν συνεισελεύσεται·
39:3ἀπόκρυφα παροιμιῶν ἐκζητήσει, καὶ ἐν αἰνίγμασι παραβολῶν ἀναστραφήσεται.
39:4ἀνὰ μέσον μεγιστάνων ὑπηρετήσει, καὶ ἔναντι ἡγουμένου ὀφθήσεται· (5)ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίων ἐθνῶν δωλεύσεται, ἀγαθὰ γὰρ καὶ κακὰ ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἐπείρασεν.
39:5τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ ἐπιδώσει ὀρθρίσαι πρὸς Κύριον τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν, καὶ ἔναντι Ὑψίστου δεηθήσεται· (7) καὶ ἀνοίξει στόμα αὐτοῦ ἐν σροσευχῆ, καὶ περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτοῦ δεηθήσεται.
39:6ἐὰν Κύριος ὁ μέγας θελήσῃ, πνεύματι συνέσεως ἐμπλησθήσεται· (9) ἀνομβρήσει ῥήματα σοφίας αὐτός, καὶ ἐν σροσευχῇ ἐξομολογήσεται Κυρίῳ·
39:7⁷ρὐτὸς κατευθυνεῖ βουλὴυ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἐυ τοῖς ἀποκρύφοις αὐτοῦ διαοοηθήσεται·
39:8αὐτὸς ἐκφαίνει παιδείαο διδασααλίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐυ νόμῳ διαθήκης Κυρίου καυχήσεται.
39:9αἰνέσουσιν τὴυ σύνεσιν αὐτοῦ πολλοί, ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος οὐκ ἐξαλειφθήσεται· (13)οὐκ ἀποστήσεται τὸ μνημοσύνου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὄυομα αὐτοῦ ζήσεται εἰς γενεὰς γενεῶν·
39:10τὴν σοφίαυ αὐτοῦ διηγήσονται ἔθνη, καὶ τὸυ ἔπαινου αὐτοῦ ἐξαγγελεῖ ἐκκλησία·
39:11ἐὰν ἐμμείνῃ, ὄνομα καταλείψει ἡ χίλιοι, καὶ ἐὰν ἀναπαύσηται, ἐμποιεῖ αὐτῷ.
39:12Ἔτι διανοηθεὶς ἐκδιηγήσομαι, καὶ ὡς διχομηνία ἐπληρώθην.
39:13εἰσακούσατέ μου, υἱὰρὶ ὅσιοι, καὶ βλαστήσατε ὡς ῥόδον φυόμενον ἐπὶ όεύματος ἀγροῦ,
39:14καὶ ὡς λίβανος εὐωδιάσατε ὀσμήν, (19)καὶ ἀνθήσατε ἄνθος ὡς κρίνον, διάδοτε ὀσμὴν καὶ αἰνέσατε ἄσμα. εὐλογήσατε Κύριρν ἐπὶ πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔργοις,
39:15δότε τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ μεγαλωσύνην, καὶ ἐξομολογήσασθε ἐν αἰνέσει αὐτοῦ, ἐν ᾠδαῖς χειλέων καὶ ἐν κινύραις. καὶ οὕτως ἐρεῖτε ἐν ἐξομολογήσει
39:16Τὰ ἔργα Κυρίου πάντα ὅτι καλὰ σφόδρα, καὶ πᾶν πρόσταγμα ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ ἔσται·
39:17οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν Τί τοῦτο; εἰς τί τοῦτο; πάντα γὰρ ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ ζητηθήσεται. (22)ἐν λόγῳ αὐτοῦ ἔστη ὡς θιμωνιὰ ὕδωρ, καὶ ἐν ῥήματι στόματος αὐτοῦ ἀποδοχεῖα ὑδάτων.
39:18ἐν προστάγματι αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ εὐδοκία, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἐλαττώσει τὸ σωτήριον αὐτοῦ.
39:19ἔργα πάσης σαρκὸς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν κρυβῆοαι ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ·
39:20ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐπέβλεψεν, καὶ οὐθέν ἐστιν θαυμάσιον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ.
39:21οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν Τί τοῦτος εἰς τί τοῦτο; πάντα γὰρ εἰς χρείας αὐτῶν ἔκτισται.
39:22ἡ εὐλογία αὐτοῦ ὡς ποταμὸς ἐπεκάλυψεν, (28)καὶ ὡς κατακλυσμὸς ξηρὰν ἐμέθυσεν·
39:23οὕτως ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ ἔθνη κληρονομήσει, (29)ὡς μετέστρεψεν ὕδατα εἰς ἅλμην.
39:24ρἱ ὀδοὶ αὐτοῦ τοῖς ὁσίοις εὐθεῖαι, οὕτως τοῖς ἀνόμοις προσκόμματα·
39:25ἀγαθὰ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἔκτισται ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς. οὕτως τοῖς ἁμαρτωλοῖς κακά.
39:26ἁρχὴ πάσης χρείας εἰς ζωὴν ἀνθρώπου. ὕδωρ, πῦρ καὶ σίδηρος καὶ ἄλα καὶ σεμίδαλις, πυρὸς καὶ μέλι καὶ γάλα, αἵμα σταφυλῆς καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ ἱμάτιον·
39:27ταῦτα πάντα τοῖς εὐσεβέσιν εἰς ἀγαθά, οὕτως τοῖς ἁμαρτωλοῖς τραπήσεται εἰς κακά.
39:28ἔοτιν πνεύματα ἄ εἰς ἐκδίκησιν ἔκτισται, καὶ ἐν θυμῷ αὐτῶν ἐστερέωσαν μάστιγας αὐτῶν· (34)καὶ ἐν καιρῷ συντελείας ἰσχὺν ἐκχεοῦσιν, καὶ τὸν θυμὸν τοῦ ποιήσαντος αὐτοὺς κοπάσουσιν.
39:29πῦρ καὶ χάλαζα καὶ λιμὸς καὶ θάνατος, πάντα ταῦτα εἰς ἐκδίκησιν ἔκτισται·
39:30θηρίων ὀδόντες καὶ σκορπίοι καὶ ἔχεις καὶ ῥομφαία ἐκδικοῦσα εἰο ὄλεθρον ἀσεβεῖς,
39:31ἐν τῇ ἐντολῇ αὐτοῦ εὐφρανθήσονται, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς εἰς χρείας ἑτοιμασθήσονται, καὶ ἐν τοῖς καιροῖς αὐτῶν οὐ παραβήσονται λόγον.
39:32διὰ τοῦτο ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐστηρίχθην καὶ διενοήθην καὶ ἐν γραφῇ ἀφῆκα.
39:33τὰ ἔργα Κυρίου πάντα ἀγαθά, καὶ πᾶσαν χρείαν ἐν ὥρᾳ αὐτῆς χορηγήσει·
39:34καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν Τοῦτο τούτου πονηρότερον, πάντα γὰρ ἐν καιρῷ εὐδοκιμηθήσεται.
39:35καὶ νῦν ἐν πάσῃ καρδίᾳ καὶ στόματι ὑμνήσαμεν. καὶ εὐλογήσατε τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου.

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title
Sirach 39 (Greek, Swete)
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source
Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Sirach 39; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
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CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
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Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
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Bible/Old Testament/Sirach/39.greek.swete.L0.txt

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Sirach 39 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Sirach 39; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/sirach/39.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).

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