Sirach 24:5
Good News Translation
Alone I walked around the circle of the sky and walked through the ocean beneath the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
Alone I compassed the vault of heaven and traversed the depths of the abyss.

Contemporary English Version
Only I could travel around the horizon and walk in ocean depths.

New American Bible
The vault of heaven I compassed alone, and walked through the deep abyss.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:

Sirach 24:3
And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly.

Sirach 24:4
And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:

Sirach 24:6
I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:

Sirach 24:7
I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.

Context
Sirach 24
4And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying: 5I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures: 6I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:…
Cross References
Sirach 24:3
And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly.

Sirach 24:4
And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:

Sirach 24:6
I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:

Sirach 24:7
I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 24:4
Top of Page
Top of Page