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17 Don’t say, “I’ll be hidden from the Lord,”
    and “Who from on high
    will call me to mind?
    Among a great many people,
    I’ll never be recognized;
    for what am I in such a vast creation?
18 Look at the heavens,
indeed the highest heavens;
    the abyss and the earth
    will tremble at the Lord’s visitation.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 16:18 LXXb adds The entire world, past and present, is in his will.

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