Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Like an oak I spread out my branches, magnificent and graceful. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 24:14From 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. Sirach 24:15 And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. Sirach 24:17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. Sirach 24:18 I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: Context Sirach 24…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. 17I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.… Cross References 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 24:15 And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. Sirach 24:17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. Sirach 24:18 I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: |