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Sirach 24

34 verses · King James Version

  1. 1Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her people.Compare translations of Sirach 24:1
  2. 2In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.Compare translations of Sirach 24:2
  3. 3I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the earth as a cloud.Compare translations of Sirach 24:3
  4. 4I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.Compare translations of Sirach 24:4
  5. 5I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.Compare translations of Sirach 24:5
  6. 6In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.Compare translations of Sirach 24:6
  7. 7With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?Compare translations of Sirach 24:7
  8. 8So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel.Compare translations of Sirach 24:8
  9. 9He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.Compare translations of Sirach 24:9
  10. 10In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.Compare translations of Sirach 24:10
  11. 11Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.Compare translations of Sirach 24:11
  12. 12And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.Compare translations of Sirach 24:12
  13. 13I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.Compare translations of Sirach 24:13
  14. 14I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane tree by the water.Compare translations of Sirach 24:14
  15. 15I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.Compare translations of Sirach 24:15
  16. 16As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.Compare translations of Sirach 24:16
  17. 17As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.Compare translations of Sirach 24:17
  18. 18I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.Compare translations of Sirach 24:18
  19. 19Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits.Compare translations of Sirach 24:19
  20. 20For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.Compare translations of Sirach 24:20
  21. 21They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.Compare translations of Sirach 24:21
  22. 22He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.Compare translations of Sirach 24:22
  23. 23All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregations of Jacob.Compare translations of Sirach 24:23
  24. 24Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him there is no other Saviour.Compare translations of Sirach 24:24
  25. 25He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits.Compare translations of Sirach 24:25
  26. 26He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Jordan in the time of the harvest.Compare translations of Sirach 24:26
  27. 27He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage.Compare translations of Sirach 24:27
  28. 28The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out.Compare translations of Sirach 24:28
  29. 29For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.Compare translations of Sirach 24:29
  30. 30I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit into a garden.Compare translations of Sirach 24:30
  31. 31I said, I will water my best garden, and will water abundantly my garden bed: and, lo, my brook became a river, and my river became a sea.Compare translations of Sirach 24:31
  32. 32I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afar off.Compare translations of Sirach 24:32
  33. 33I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and leave it to all ages for ever.Compare translations of Sirach 24:33
  34. 34Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all them that seek wisdom.Compare translations of Sirach 24:34