Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The setting sun sets fire to the hilltops, like a metal furnace glowing from the heat. It sends out fiery rays, blinding the eyes with its brightness. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes. Sirach 43:2The 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: Sirach 43:5 Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course. Sirach 43:6 And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world. Context Sirach 43…3At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat: 4The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes. 5Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course.… Cross References 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: Sirach 43:5 Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course. Sirach 43:6 And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world. |