Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Come to me, all you that want me, and eat your fill of my fruit. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. Sirach 24:17I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. Sirach 24:18 I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: Sirach 24:20 I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: Sirach 24:21 And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. Context Sirach 24…18I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: 19As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. 20I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:… Cross References Sirach 24:17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. Sirach 24:18 I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: Sirach 24:20 I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: Sirach 24:21 And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. |
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