Sirach 24:5-16
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5 I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.
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6 In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.
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7 With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?
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8 So 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.
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9 He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.
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10 In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.
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11 Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.
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12 And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord's inheritance.
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13 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.
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14 I 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.
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15 I 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.
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16 As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.