Sirach 24:12-14

Good News Translation

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,^[a]
    like the roses of Jericho,
like beautiful olive trees in the fields,
    like plane trees growing by the water.