Sirach 24
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| 1 | Wisedome shall praise her selfe, and shall glory in the midst of her people. |
| 2 | In the Congregation of the most high, shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power. |
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| 3 | I came out of the mouth of the most High, and couered the earth as a cloud. |
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| 4 | I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar. |
| 5 | I alone compassed the circuit of heauen, and walked in the bottome of the deepe. |
| 6 | In the waues of the sea, and in all the earth, and in euery people, and nation, I got a possession. |
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| 7 | With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide? |
| 8 | So the creatour of all things gaue mee a commandement, and hee that made me, caused my tabernacle to rest: and said, Let thy dwelling be in Iacob, and thine inheritance in Israel. |
| 9 | Hee created mee from the beginning before the world, and I shall neuer faile. |
| 10 | In the holy Tabernacle I serued before him: and so was I established in Sion. |
| 11 | Likewise in the beloued citie he gaue mee rest, and in Ierusalem was my power. |
| 12 | And I tooke roote in an honourable people, euen in the portion of the Lords inheritance. |
| 13 | I was exalted like a Cedar in Libanus, and as a Cypresse tree vpon the mountaines of Hermon. |
| 14 | I was exalted like a palme tree in Engaddi, and as a rose-plant in Iericho, as a faire oliue tree in a pleasant fielde, and grew vp as a planetree by the water. |
| 15 | I gaue a sweete smell like cinamon, and aspalathus, and I yeelded a pleasant odour like the best mirrhe, as Galbanum and Onix, and sweet Storax, and as the sume of franckincense in the Tabernacle. |
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| 16 | As the Turpentine tree, I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace. |
| 17 | As the Uine brought I foorth pleasant sauour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. |
| 18 | I am the mother of faire loue, and feare, and knowledge, and holy hope, I therefore being eternall, am giuen to all my children which are named of him. |
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| 19 | Come vnto me all ye that be desirous of mee, and fill your selues with my fruits. |
| 20 | For my memorial is sweeter then hony, and mine inheritance then the hony combe. |
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| 21 | They that eate mee shall yet be hungry, and they that drinke me shall yet be thirstie. |
| 22 | He that obeyeth me, shall neuer be confounded, and they that worke by me, shall not doe amisse. |
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| 23 | All these things are the booke of the Couenant of the most high God, euen the Law which Moses commanded for an heritage vnto the Congregations of Iacob. |
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| 24 | Faint not to bee strong in the Lord; that he may confirme you, cleaue vnto him: for the Lord Almightie is God alone, and besides him there is no other Sauiour. |
| 25 | He filleth all things with his wisdome, as Physon, and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits. |
| 26 | He maketh the vnderstanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Iorden in the time of the haruest. |
| 27 | He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appeare as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage. |
| 28 | The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last finde her out. |
| 29 | For her thoughts are more then the Sea, and her counsels profounder then the great deepe. |
| 30 | I also came out as a brooke from a riuer, and as a conduit into a garden. |
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| 31 | I said, I will water my best garden, and will water abundantly my garden bedde: and loe, my brooke became a riuer, and my riuer became a sea. |
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| 32 | I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afarre off. |
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| 33 | I will yet powre out doctrine as prophecie, and leaue it to all ages for euer. |
| 34 | Behold that I haue not laboured for my selfe onely, but for all them that seeke wisedome. |