Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation My breath was the spicy smell of cinnamon, of sweet perfume and finest myrrh, of stacte, onycha, and galbanum, the fragrant incense in the Sacred Tent. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. Sirach 24:13And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. Sirach 24:14 From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. Sirach 24:16 And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. Sirach 24:17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. Context Sirach 24…14From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. 15And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. 16And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.… Cross References Sirach 24:13 And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. Sirach 24:14 From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. Sirach 24:16 And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. Sirach 24:17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. |