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Sirach, глава 24 неканонич.

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Chapter 24
24:1Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her people.
24:2In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.
24:3I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the earth as a cloud.
24:4I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.
24:5I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.
24:6In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.
24:7With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?
24:8So 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.
24:9He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.
24:10In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.
24:11Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.
24:12And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord's inheritance.
24:13I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.
24:14I 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.
24:15I 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.
24:16As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.
24:17As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.
24:18I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.
24:19Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits.
24:20For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.
24:21They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.
24:22He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.
24:23All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregations of Jacob.
24:24Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him there is no other Saviour.
24:25He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits.
24:26He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Jordan in the time of the harvest.
24:27He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage.
24:28The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out.
24:29For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.
24:30I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit into a garden.
24:31I said, I will water my best garden, and will water abundantly my garden bed: and, lo, my brook became a river, and my river became a sea.
24:32I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afar off.
24:33I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and leave it to all ages for ever.
24:34Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all them that seek wisdom.