1611 King James Bible
Ecclesiasticus 24
- Ecclesiasticus 24:1 Wisedome shall praise her selfe, and shall glory in the midst of her people.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:2 In the Congregation of the most high, shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:3 I came out of the mouth of the most High, and couered the earth as a cloud.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:4 I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:5 I alone compassed the circuit of heauen, and walked in the bottome of the deepe.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:6 In the waues of the sea, and in all the earth, and in euery people, and nation, I got a possession.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:7 With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?
- Ecclesiasticus 24:8 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.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:9 Hee created mee from the beginning before the world, and I shall neuer faile.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:10 In the holy Tabernacle I serued before him: and so was I established in Sion.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:11 Likewise in the beloued citie he gaue mee rest, and in Ierusalem was my power.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:12 And I tooke roote in an honourable people, euen in the portion of the Lords inheritance.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:13 I was exalted like a Cedar in Libanus, and as a Cypresse tree vpon the mountaines of Hermon.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:14 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.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:15 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.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:16 As the Turpentine tree, I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:17 As the Uine brought I foorth pleasant sauour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:18 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.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:19 Come vnto me all ye that be desirous of mee, and fill your selues with my fruits.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:20 For my memorial is sweeter then hony, and mine inheritance then the hony combe.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:21 They that eate mee shall yet be hungry, and they that drinke me shall yet be thirstie.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:22 He that obeyeth me, shall neuer be confounded, and they that worke by me, shall not doe amisse.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:23 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.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:24 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.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:25 He filleth all things with his wisdome, as Physon, and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:26 He maketh the vnderstanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Iorden in the time of the haruest.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:27 He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appeare as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:28 The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last finde her out.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:29 For her thoughts are more then the Sea, and her counsels profounder then the great deepe.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:30 I also came out as a brooke from a riuer, and as a conduit into a garden.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:31 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.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:32 I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afarre off.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:33 I will yet powre out doctrine as prophecie, and leaue it to all ages for euer.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:34 Behold that I haue not laboured for my selfe onely, but for all them that seeke wisedome.