Sirach 36:18

¹⁶Though I was the last to wake up, Yet I received their inheritance as from the beginning.

¹⁷O Lord have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name, And upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.

— Sirach 36:18 —

¹⁹Fill Zion with thine unspeakable oracles, And thy people with thy glory.

²⁰Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, And raise up prophets that have been in thy name.