Today's Readings
Sirach 24 : 1 - 15
1 | 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 ad- mired 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, |
13 | And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. |
14 | From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. |
15 | And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. |