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Today's Readings
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Saturday, 27th April 2024 --- 19 Baramoudah 1740
Sirach 24 : 1 - 15
Chapter 24
| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:
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| 5 | I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.
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| 8 | 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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| 9 | And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,
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| 10 | And in every nation I have had the chief rule:
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| 11 | And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord.
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| 12 | Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle,
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| 13 | And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect.
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| 14 | From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him.
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| 15 | And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.
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Acknowledgement
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