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Wisdom will praise her own soul,
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She will open her mouth in the congregation of the Most High,
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“I came out of the mouth of the Most High,
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I lived in high places,
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Alone I surrounded the circuit of heaven,
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In the waves of the sea, and in all the earth,
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With all these I sought rest.
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Then the Creator of all things gave me a command.
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He created me from the beginning, before the ages.
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In the holy tabernacle, I ministered before him.
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In the beloved city, likewise he gave me rest.
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I took root in a people that was honoured,
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I was exalted like a cedar in Lebanon,
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I was exalted like a palm tree on the sea shore,
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Like cinnamon and aspalathus, I have given a scent to perfumes. like[a] galbanum, onycha, stacte,
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Like the terebinth, I stretched out my branches.
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Like the vine, I put forth grace.
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“Come to me, all you who desire me,
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For my memory is sweeter than honey,
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Those who eat me will be hungry for more.
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He who obeys me will not be ashamed.
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All these things are the book of the covenant of the Most High God,
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It is he who makes wisdom abundant, as Pishon,
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He makes understanding full as the Euphrates,
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who makes instruction shine forth as the light,
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The first man didn’t know her perfectly.
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For her thoughts are filled from the sea,
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I came out as a canal stream from a river,
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I said, “I will water my garden,
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I will yet bring instruction to light as the morning,
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I will continue to pour out teaching like prophecy,
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See that I have not laboured for myself only,