Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiasticus 24:20-38 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

20. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:

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.

22. I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace.

23. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.

24. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope.

25. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.

26. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits.

27. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.

28. My memory is unto everlasting generations.

29. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

30. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.

31. They that explain me shall have life everlasting.

32. All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.

33. Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.

34. He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever.

35. Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits.

36. Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who multiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest.

37. Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage.

38. Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not search her out.