Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people, 2And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power, 3And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly. 4And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying: 5I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures: 6I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth: 7I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud. 8I 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, 9And have stood in all the earth: and in every people, 10And in every nation I have had the chief rule: 11And 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. 12Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle, 13And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. 14From 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. 15And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. 16And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. 17I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. 18I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: 19As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. 20I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: 21And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. 22I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace.