Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The Lord, who made it, is great; it speeds on its way at his command. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course. 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: Sirach 43:4 The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes. Sirach 43:6 And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world. Sirach 43:7 From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that decreaseth in her perfection. Context Sirach 43…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. 6And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world.… Cross References 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 43:4 The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes. Sirach 43:6 And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times and a sign of the world. Sirach 43:7 From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that decreaseth in her perfection. |