24:7 With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide? 24:8 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. 24:9 He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail. 24:10 In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion. 24:11 Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power. 24:12 And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance. 24:13 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon. 24:14 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. 24:15 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. 24:16 As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace. 24:17 As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. 24:18 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. 24:19 Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits. 24:20 For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb. 24:21 They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty. 24:22 He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss. 24:23 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. 24:24 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. 24:25 He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits. 24:26 He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Jordan in the time of the harvest. 24:27 He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage. 24:28 The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out. 24:29 For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep. 24:30 I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit into a garden. 24:31 I 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. 24:32 I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afar off.