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Lamentations 4:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

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Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.

To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.

He sent therefore and brought him. Now, he was ruddy and beautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for this is he.

Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head; for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb. If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.

But he answered thus: Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son: beware thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite of God from his infancy, from his mother's womb until the day of his death.

Because thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and no razor shall touch his head. For he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his mother's womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

For he shall be great before the Lord; and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.

It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.

High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.

His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.




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