drb — Douay-Rheims Bible CLI

The complete Douay-Rheims Bible in your terminal. Read any book, chapter, and verse. Search across the entire text. No internet required.

What It Does

drb gives you the full text of the Douay-Rheims Bible (1899 Challoner revision) as a fast, offline command-line tool. Look up any verse by book, chapter, and verse reference. Search across all 73 books for any word or phrase. Output is clean and readable in any terminal.

The Douay-Rheims is the standard English translation of the Latin Vulgate, used by English-speaking Catholics for over four centuries. This tool puts the entire text at your fingertips without leaving the terminal.

Example

$ drb john 1:1-5

  The Gospel According to St. John
  Chapter 1, Verses 1–5

  [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God.
  [2] The same was in the beginning with God.
  [3] All things were made by him: and without him was
  made nothing that was made.
  [4] In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
  [5] And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness
  did not comprehend it.

  — Douay-Rheims Bible (1899 Challoner revision)

Installation

brew install ecclesia-dev/tap/drb     # coming soon

Homebrew tap not yet published. In the meantime, build from source — see the GitHub repository.

Usage

drb genesis 1              # read Genesis chapter 1
drb john 3:16              # single verse
drb rom 8:28-39            # verse range
drb search "grace"         # search all books
drb search "light" --book john   # search within a book
drb books                  # list all 73 books

Source

Free and open source. github.com/ecclesia-dev/drb