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You told me to build a temple on your sacred mountain, an altar in Jerusalem, the city you chose as your home. It is a copy of that temple in heaven, which you prepared at the beginning.
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Even if someone is perfect, he will be thought of as nothing without the Wisdom that comes from you.
7
You chose me over everyone else to be the king of your own people, to judge your sons and daughters.
8
You told me to build a temple on your sacred mountain, an altar in Jerusalem, the city you chose as your home. It is a copy of that temple in heaven, which you prepared at the beginning.
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Wisdom is with you and knows your actions; she was present when you made the world. She knows what pleases you, what is right and in accordance with your commands.
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Send her from the holy heavens, down from your glorious throne, so that she may work at my side, and I may learn what pleases you.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.