Sirach 43:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

43 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: