“pleasant” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word pleasant appears 11 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 11 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 2:9 And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
- Psalms 80:3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
- Psalms 132:1 Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity:
- Proverbs 9:17 Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:23 As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.
- Ecclesiasticus 32:8 As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.
- Ecclesiasticus 40:21 The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
- Isaias 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.
- Isaias 30:10 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.
- 1 Machabees 6:11 And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and into what floods of sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and beloved in my power!
- 2 Machabees 15:40 For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the speech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers. But here it shall be ended.