- 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.
- 3. I came out of the mouth of the most High, and couered the earth as a cloud.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 32. I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afarre off.
- 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.
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