Sirach 24:1-12

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

24 Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people,

² And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power,

³ And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly.

⁴ And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:

⁵ I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:

⁶ I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:

⁷ I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.

⁸ I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated into the bottom of the deep, and have walked in the waves of the sea,

⁹ And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,

¹⁰ And in every nation I have had the chief rule:

¹¹ And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord.

¹² Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle,