Sirach 43:21
Good News Translation
He scorches the wilderness hills with drought, and the grass turns brown from its heat;

New Revised Standard Version
He consumes the mountains and burns up the wilderness, and withers the tender grass like fire.

Contemporary English Version
God sends the fiery heat, and deserted mountain pastures are scorched and withered.

New American Bible
When mountain growth is scorched by heat, and flowering plains as by fire,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.

Sirach 43:19
And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.

Sirach 43:20
The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.

Sirach 43:22
The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into crystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and shall clothe the waters as a breastplate.

Sirach 43:23
And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.

Context
Sirach 43
20The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof. 21He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles. 22The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into crystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and shall clothe the waters as a breastplate.…
Cross References
Sirach 43:19
And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.

Sirach 43:20
The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.

Sirach 43:22
The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into crystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and shall clothe the waters as a breastplate.

Sirach 43:23
And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 43:20
Top of Page
Top of Page