Sirach 24
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1WIsdome shal praise her self, [and be honored in God,] and reioyce in the middes of her people. 2In the congregacion of the moste High shal she open her mouth, and triumph before his power. 3[In the middes of her people shal she be exalted, and wondred at in the holy assemblie. 4In the multitude of the chosen she shalbe commended, and among suche as be blessed, she shalbe praised, and shal say,] 5I am come out of the mouth of the moste High, [first borne before all creatures. 6I caused the light that faileth not, to arise in the heauen,] and couered the earth as a cloude. 7My dwelling is aboue in the height, and my throne is in the piller of the cloude. 8I alone haue gone round about the compasse of heauen and haue walked in the botom of the depth. 9I possessed the waues of the sea, and all the earth, and all people, and nacion, [and with my power haue I troden downe the hearts of all, bothe High and low.] 10In all these things I soght rest, & a dwelling in some inheritance. 11So the creator of all things gaue me a commandement, and he that made me, appointed me a tabernacle, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Iacob, and take thine inheritance in Israel, and roote thy selfe among my chosen. 12He created me from the beginning, & before the worlde, & I shal neuer faile: In the holie habitacion haue I serued before him, and so was I stablished in Sion. 13In the welbeloued citie gaue he me rest, and in Ierusalem was my power. 14I toke roote in an honorable people, euen in the porcion of the Lords inheritance. 15I am set vp on hie like a ceder in Libanus, and as a cipers tre vpon the mountaines of Hermon. 16I am exalted like a palme tre about the bankes, and as a rose plante in Iericho, as a faire oliue tre in a pleasant field, and am exalted as a plane tre by the water. 17I smelled as the cinnamom, & as a bagge of spices: I gaue a swete odour as the best myrrhe, as galbanum, and onix, and swete storax, & perfume of incense in an house. 18As the terebinth, haue I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace. 19As the vine haue I broght forthe [frute] of swete sauour, and my floures are the frute of honour and riches. 20I am the mother of beautiful loue, and of feare, and of knowledge, and of holy hope: I giue eternal things to all my children to whome God hathe commanded. 21[In me is all grace of life and trueth: in me is all hope of life and vertue.] 22Come vnto me all ye that be desirous of me, and fill your selues with my frutes. 23For the remembrance of me is sweter then honie, and mine enheritance [sweter] then the honie combe: [the remembrance of me endureth for euer more.] 24They that eat me, shal haue the more hunger, and they that drinke me, shal thirst the more. 25Who so hearkeneth vnto me, shal not come to confusion, & they that worke by me, shal not offende: [they that make me to be knowen, shal haue euerlasting life.] 26All these things are the boke [of life,] & the couenant of the moste high God, [& the knowledge of the trueth,] & the Law that Moyses [in the precepts of righteousnes] commanded for an heritage vnto the house of Iacob, [and the promises perteining vnto Israel.] 27Be not weary to behaue your selues valiantly with the Lord, that he may also confirme you: cleaue vnto him: for the Lord almightie is but one God, & besides him there is none other Sauiour. 28[Out of Dauid his seruant he ordeined to raise vp a moste mightie King that shulde sit in the throne of honour for euer more.] 29He filleth all things with his wisdome, as Physon, & as Tygris, in the time of the newe frutes. 30He maketh the vnderstanding to abounde like Euphrates, & as Iorden in the time of the haruest. 31He maketh the doctrine of knowledge to appeare as the light, and ouerfloweth as Geon in the time of the vintage. 32The first man hathe not knowen her perfitely: no more shal the last seke her out. 33For her consideratious are more abundant then the sea, and her counsel is profounder then the great deepe. 34I wisdome [haue cast out floods:] I am as an arme of the riuer: I runne into Paradise as a watercondite. 35I said, I wil watter my faire garden, and wil watter my pleasant grounde: and lo, my ditche became a flood, and my flood became a sea. 36For I make doctrine to shine as the light of the morning, and I lighten it for euer. 37[I wil pearce thorow all the lower partes of the earth: I wil loke vpon all suche as be a slepe, & lighten all them that trust in the Lord.] 38I wil yet powre out doctrine, as prophecie, and leaue it vnto all ages for euer. 39Beholde that I haue not labored for my self onely, but for all them that seke wisdome.
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