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no lack there whether of spikenard or saffron, of calamus, cinnamon, or incense-tree,✻ of myrrh, aloes or any rarest perfume. (Song of Solomon 4, 14)
A peerless champion they found, in Aaron, that quickly took up the shield of his appointed ministry; the power of intercession that was his, and the atoning incense, held thy wrath in check, and brought the calamity to an end; none could doubt now he was the man of thy choice! (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 21)
yours to yield the fragrance of incense; (Ecclesiasticus 39, 18)
Alone of living men, he was chosen out to offer sacrifice, and the sweet-smelling incense that is a people’s plea for remembrance, a people’s atonement. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 20)
Fire that glows brightly, and glow of incense on the fire? (Ecclesiasticus 50, 9)
Vain offerings, bring them no more, this incense of yours is an abomination. Enough of new moons and sabbaths, of thronged assemblies where none but sinners meet! (Isaiah 1, 13)
He will turn no longer towards altars of his own designing, have eyes no longer for pillar and shrine of his own fashioning. (Isaiah 17, 8)
Or wilt thou answer, We trust, I and my people, in the Lord our God? Tell me, who is he? Is he not the God whose hill-shrines and altars their king, Ezechias, has cleared away, bidding Juda and Jerusalem worship at one altar here? (Isaiah 36, 7)
No ram of thine offered in burnt-sacrifice to me, no victims of thine to do me honour; little burden have my offerings been to thee, little trouble my meed of incense! (Isaiah 43, 23)
A stream of camels thronging about thee, dromedaries from Madian and Epha, bringing all the men of Saba✻ with their gifts of gold and incense, their cry of praise to the Lord! (Isaiah 60, 6)
openly defying me. Shrines hidden away in gardens, altars of brick! (Isaiah 65, 3)
To the rest it is all one; slaughter they an ox, or murder a human victim,✻ cut sheep’s throat, or dash out a dog’s brains, make offering of meal, or of swine’s blood, in my honour burn incense, or bless the name of a false god. In all this, it is but caprice guides their choice, in all manner of abominations; (Isaiah 66, 3)
