Sirach 48:9
Good News Translation
You were taken up to heaven in a fiery whirlwind, a chariot drawn by fiery horses.

New Revised Standard Version
You were taken up by a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot with horses of fire.

Contemporary English Version
Then God took him to heaven in a fiery whirlwind-- a chariot and horses made of fire.

New American Bible
You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.

Sirach 48:7
Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of vengeance.

Sirach 48:8
Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors after thee.

Sirach 48:10
Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

Sirach 48:11
Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.

Context
Sirach 48
8Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors after thee. 9Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses. 10Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.…
Cross References
Sirach 48:7
Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of vengeance.

Sirach 48:8
Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors after thee.

Sirach 48:10
Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

Sirach 48:11
Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 48:8
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