Monday, May 16, 2016

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 (NRSV)

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Chapter 8Does not wisdom call,
and does not understanding raise her voice?
Verse ²On the heights, beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;
Verse ³beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
Verse ⁴"To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all that live.

Verse ²²The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
Verse ²³Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
Verse ²⁴When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
Verse ²⁵Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth-
Verse ²⁶when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world's first bits of soil.
Verse ²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
Verse ²⁸when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
Verse ²⁹when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth, Verse ³⁰then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
Verse ³¹rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.