“cypress” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word cypress appears 5 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 5 matching verses are shown below.
- Canticle of Canticles 1:13 A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.
- Canticle of Canticles 1:16 The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.
- Canticle of Canticles 4:13 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:17 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.
- Ecclesiasticus 50:11 As an olive tree budding forth, and a cypress tree rearing itself on high, when he put on the robe of glory, and was clothed with the perfection of power.