Ben Sira - chapter 49

49: 1 - 16 (translated by Edgar Goodspeed)
The memory of Josiah is like a blending of incense carefully prepared by the perfumer; everyone finds it sweet as honey to the taste, and like music at a banquet.  He succeeded in converting the people, and abolished the wicked abominations.  He made his heart right with the Lord, in the days of wicked men he encouraged godliness.  Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah, they (the kings of Judah) sinned greatly, for they forsook the Law of the Most High.  The kings of Judah failed utterly, for they gave their strength others, and their glory to a foreign nation.  They set fire to the city chosen for the sanctuary, and made her streeets desolate, for the sake of Jeremiah; for they has misused him; though he was consecrated before his birth to be a prophet, to root up and injure and ruin, likewise to build and to plant.
It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision, which he showed him upon the chariot borne by the winged creatures.  For he remembers his enemies with rain, and to do good to those who make their paths straight.  And may the bones of the Twelve Prophets revive out of their place, for they comforted Jacob, and delivered them with their confident hope.
How shall we magnify Zerubbabel?  For he was like a signet on the right hand; so was Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, for they in their days rebuilt the house, and raised a temple holy to the Lord, prepared for everlasting glory.  The memory of Nehemiah also is lasting, for he raised up for us the walls which had fallen, and set up barred gates, and rebuilt our houses.  No one was ever created on earth like Enoch, for he was taken up from the earth [see above 44:16 tribute to him]; nor was a man ever born like Joseph, the leader of his brothers, the support of the people; and his bones were cared for.  Shem and Seth were greatly honored above others, but above every living thing was Adam in his creation!