15
Like cinnamon and camel's thorn used for spices, I gave off a fine aroma. Like choice myrrh, I spread forth my fragrance, like galbanum, onycha, and stacte, and like the smell of frankincense in the tent.
16
Like a terebinth oak I spread out my branches, and my branches were glorious and graceful.
17
Gracious favor was the leaf that I put forth like a vine, and honor and wealth were the fruit that my blossoms bore.
19
"Come to me, you who desire me, and take your fill of my produce.
Footnotes 1
[a].
LXXb adds 24:18 I am the mother of beautiful love, of awe, of knowledge, and of devout hope, and I grant them, together with all things, to my children eternally generated gifts, to those whom God chooses.