Sirach 43:1
Good News Translation
How beautiful is the bright, clear sky above us! What a glorious sight it is!

New Revised Standard Version
The pride of the higher realms is the clear vault of the sky, as glorious to behold as the sight of the heavens.

Contemporary English Version
Nothing can compare with the glorious sight of the clear, blue sky.

New American Bible
The beauty of the celestial height and the pure firmament, heaven itself manifests its glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew.

Sirach 42:25
All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.

Sirach 42:26
He hath established the good things of every one. And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?

Sirach 43:2
The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.

Sirach 43:3
At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat:

Context
Sirach 43
1The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew. 2The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.…
Cross References
Sirach 42:25
All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.

Sirach 42:26
He hath established the good things of every one. And who shall be filled with beholding his glory?

Sirach 43:2
The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.

Sirach 43:3
At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 42:26
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