“sweetness” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word sweetness appears 22 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 22 matching verses are shown below.
- Exodus 15:25 But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,
- Exodus 29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening, according to the rite of the morning oblation, and according to what we have said, for a savour of sweetness:
- Leviticus 2:12 You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.
- Judges 9:11 And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?
- Judges 14:14 And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not for three days expound the riddle.
- Job 24:20 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
- Psalms 20:4 For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.
- Psalms 30:20 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.
- Psalms 67:11 In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.
- Psalms 144:7 They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.
- Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.
- Wisdom 16:20 Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.
- Wisdom 16:21 For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man’s will, it was turned to what every man liked.
- Ecclesiasticus 4:13 And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her, shall embrace her sweetness.
- Ecclesiasticus 11:3 The bee is small among flying things but her fruit hath the chiefest sweetness.
- Ecclesiasticus 35:8 The oblation of the just maketh the altar fat, and is an odour of sweetness in the sight of the most High.
- Ezechiel 20:41 I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
- Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.
- Amos 9:13 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.
- 2 Corinthians 6:6 In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned,
- Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.
- Philippians 4:18 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.