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Ecclesiasticus 43:1-5 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew.

2. The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work of the most High.

3. At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace in the works of heat:

4. The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes.

5. Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath hastened his course.

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