1. Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her people.

2. In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.

3. I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the earth as a cloud.

4. I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.

5. I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.

6. In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.

7. With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?

8. So 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.

9. He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.

10. In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.

11. Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.

12. And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.

13. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.

14. I 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.

15. I 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.

16. As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.

17. As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.

18. I 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.

19. Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits.

20. For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.

21. They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.

22. He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.

23. All 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. Faint 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.

25. He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits.

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What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

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