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WISDOM shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people,
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And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power,
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And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be ad- mired in the holy assembly.
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And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:
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I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:
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I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:
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I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.
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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,
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And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,