Sirach 50:17
Good News Translation
All the people immediately bowed down with their faces to the ground to worship their Lord, the Almighty, the Most High.

New Revised Standard Version
Then all the people together quickly fell to the ground on their faces to worship their Lord, the Almighty, God Most High.

Contemporary English Version
Immediately, everyone bowed with their face to the ground to worship the all-powerful Lord God Most High.

New American Bible
All the people with one accord would fall with face to the ground In adoration before the Most High, before the Holy One of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He poured out at the foot of the altar a divine odour to the most high Prince.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He poured out at the foot of the altar a divine odour to the most high Prince.

Sirach 50:15
And the oblation of the Lord was in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel: and finishing his service, on the altar, to honour the offering of the most high King,

Sirach 50:16
He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of the blood of the grape.

Sirach 50:18
Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before God.

Sirach 50:19
Then all the people together made haste, and fell down to the earth upon their faces, to adore the Lord their God, and to pray to the Almighty God the most High.

Context
Sirach 50
16He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of the blood of the grape. 17He poured out at the foot of the altar a divine odour to the most high Prince. 18Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before God.…
Cross References
Sirach 50:15
And the oblation of the Lord was in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel: and finishing his service, on the altar, to honour the offering of the most high King,

Sirach 50:16
He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of the blood of the grape.

Sirach 50:18
Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before God.

Sirach 50:19
Then all the people together made haste, and fell down to the earth upon their faces, to adore the Lord their God, and to pray to the Almighty God the most High.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 50:16
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