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"I am the word spoken by the Most High. I covered the earth like a mist.
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I made my home in highest heaven,
1 my throne on a pillar of cloud.
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Alone I walked around the circle of the sky and walked through the ocean beneath the earth.
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I ruled over all the earth and the ocean waves, over every nation, over every people.
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I looked everywhere for a place to settle, some part of the world to make my home.
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Then my Creator, who created the universe, told me where I was to live. "Make your home in Israel,' he said. "The descendants of Jacob will be your people.'
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He created me in eternity, before time began, and I will exist for all eternity to come.
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I served him in the Sacred Tent and then made my home on Mount Zion.
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He settled me in the Beloved City and gave me authority over Jerusalem.
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I put down roots among an honored people whom the Lord had chosen as his own.
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I grew tall, like the cedars in Lebanon, like the cypresses on Mount Hermon,