Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation You will remember me as sweeter than honey, better than honey from the comb. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: Sirach 24:18I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: Sirach 24:19 As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. Sirach 24:21 And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. Sirach 24:22 I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace. Context Sirach 24…19As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. 20I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: 21And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.… Cross References Sirach 24:18 I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: Sirach 24:19 As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. Sirach 24:21 And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. Sirach 24:22 I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace. |