Sirach 50:8-10

Revised Standard Version

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;
¹⁰ like an olive tree putting forth its fruit,
    and like a cypress towering in the clouds.