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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell made by the art of a perfumer:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, and as music at a banquet of wine.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "He was directed by God unto the repentance of the nation, and he took away the abominations of wickedness.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "And he directed his heart towards the Lord, and in the days of sinners he strengthened godliness.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all committed sin.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and despised the fear of God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a strange nation,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "It was Ezechiel that saw the glorious vision, which was shewn him upon the chariot of cherubims.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of rain, and of doing good to them that shewed right ways.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "And may the bones of the twelve prophets spring up out of their place: for they strengthened Jacob, and redeemed themselves by strong faith.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "How shall we magnify Zorobabel? for he was as a signet on the right hand;",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "In like manner Jesus the son of Josedec who in their days built the house, and set up a holy temple to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And let Nehemias be a long time remembered, who raised up for us our walls that were cast down, and set up the gates and the bars, who rebuilt our houses.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "No man was born upon earth like Henoch: for he also was taken up from the earth.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Nor as Joseph, who was a man born prince of his brethren, the support of his family, the ruler of his brethren, the stay of the people:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 49:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Seth and Sem obtained glory among men: and above every soul Adam in the beginning,",
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