Sirach 50:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁰like an olive tree laden with fruit,
    and like a cypress towering in the clouds.
¹¹When he put on his glorious robe
    and clothed himself in perfect splendour,
when he went up to the holy altar,
    he made the court of the sanctuary glorious.

¹²When he received the portions from the hands of the priests,
    as he stood by the hearth of the altar
with a garland of brothers around him,
    he was like a young cedar on Lebanon
    surrounded by the trunks of palm trees.

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