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SIR 24:1  Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people,

SIR 24:2  And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power,

SIR 24:3  And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be ad- mired in the holy assembly.

SIR 24:4  And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:

SIR 24:5  I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:

SIR 24:6  I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:

SIR 24:7  I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.

SIR 24:8  I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated into the bottom of the deep, and have walked in the waves of the sea,

SIR 24:9  And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,

SIR 24:10  And in every nation I have had the chief rule:

SIR 24:11  And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord.

SIR 24:12  Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle,

SIR 24:13  And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect.

SIR 24:14  From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him.

SIR 24:15  And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.

SIR 24:16  And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of mg God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.

SIR 24:17  I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.

SIR 24:18  I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho:

SIR 24:19  As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted.

SIR 24:20  I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon. and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:

SIR 24:21  And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.

SIR 24:22  I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace.

SIR 24:23  As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.

SIR 24:24  I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope.

SIR 24:25  In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.

SIR 24:26  Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits.

SIR 24:27  For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.

SIR 24:28  My memory is unto everlasting generations.

SIR 24:29  They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

SIR 24:30  He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.

SIR 24:31  They that explain me shall have life everlasting.

SIR 24:32  All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.

SIR 24:33  Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.

SIR 24:34  He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever.

SIR 24:35  Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits.

SIR 24:36  Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who multiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest.

SIR 24:37  Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage.

SIR 24:38  Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not search her out.

SIR 24:39  For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.

SIR 24:40  I, wisdom, have poured out rivers.

SIR 24:41  I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a channel of a river. and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise.

SIR 24:42  I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow.

SIR 24:43  And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near to a sea:

SIR 24:44  For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off.

SIR 24:45  I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will behold all that sleep, and will enlighten all that hope in the Lord.

SIR 24:46  I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring even to the holy age.

Sirach

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