Baruch 3:24-37

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁴ O Israel, how great is the house of God,
    how vast the territory that he possesses!
²⁵ It is great and has no bounds;
    it is high and immeasurable.
²⁶ The giants were born there, who were famous of old,
    great in stature, expert in war.
²⁷ God did not choose them,
    or give them the way to knowledge;
²⁸ so they perished because they had no wisdom,
    they perished through their folly.

²⁹ Who has gone up into heaven, and taken her,
    and brought her down from the clouds?
³⁰ Who has gone over the sea, and found her,
    and will buy her for pure gold?
³¹ No one knows the way to her,
    or is concerned about the path to her.
³² But the one who knows all things knows her,
    he found her by his understanding.
The one who prepared the earth for all time
    filled it with four-footed creatures;
³³ the one who sends forth the light, and it goes;
    he called it, and it obeyed him, trembling;
³⁴ the stars shone in their watches, and were glad;
    he called them, and they said, “Here we are!”
    They shone with gladness for him who made them.
³⁵ This is our God;
    no other can be compared to him.
³⁶ He found the whole way to knowledge,
    and gave her to his servant Jacob
    and to Israel, whom he loved.
³⁷ Afterward she appeared on earth
    and lived with humankind.