Ben Sira 24:14

14 like the palm trees of Engedi, like the roses of Jericho, like beautiful olive trees in the fields, like plane trees growing by the water.

Ben Sira 24:14 In-Context

12 I put down roots among an honored people whom the Lord had chosen as his own.

13 I grew tall, like the cedars in Lebanon, like the cypresses on Mount Hermon,

14 like the palm trees of Engedi, like the roses of Jericho, like beautiful olive trees in the fields, like plane trees growing by the water.

15 My breath was the spicy smell of cinnamon, of sweet perfume and finest myrrh, of stacte, onycha, and galbanum, the fragrant incense in the Sacred Tent.

16 Like an oak I spread out my branches, magnificent and graceful.

Footnotes

• [a]. of Engedi; [some manuscripts have] on the seashore.