5. Alone I walked round the circle of the skyand walked through the ocean beneath the earth.
6. I ruled over all the earth and the ocean waves,over every nation, over every people.
7. I looked everywhere for a place to settle,some part of the world to make my home.
8. Then my Creator, who created the universe,told me where I was to live.‘Make your home in Israel,’ he said.‘The descendants of Jacob will be your people.’
9. He created me in eternity, before time began,and I will exist for all eternity to come.
10. I served him in the sacred Tentand then made my home on Mount Zion.
11. He settled me in the Beloved Cityand gave me authority over Jerusalem.
12. I put down roots among an honoured peoplewhom the Lord had chosen as his own.
13. I grew tall, like the cedars in Lebanon,like the cypresses on Mount Hermon,
14. like the palm-trees of Engedi,like the roses of Jericho,like beautiful olive-trees in the fields,like plane-trees growing by the water.
15. My breath was the spicy smell of cinnamon,of sweet perfume and finest myrrh,of stacte, onycha, and galbanum,the fragrant incense in the sacred Tent.