Sirach 50:7-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ like the sun shining upon the temple of the Most High,
    and like the rainbow gleaming in glorious clouds;
⁸ like roses in the days of the first fruits,
    like lilies by a spring of water,
    like a green shoot on Leb′anon^[a] on a summer day;
⁹ like fire and incense in the censer,
    like a vessel of hammered gold
    adorned with all kinds of precious stones;