1. WISDOM shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people,
2. And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power,
3. And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly.
4. And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:
5. I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures:
6. I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth: