“God’s Wisdom is your Salvation” Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
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Does not wisdom call?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
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On the heights beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;
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beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
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“To you, O men, I call,
and my cry is to the children of man.
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“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of old.
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Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
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When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
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Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth,
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before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.
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When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
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when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
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when 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,
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then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
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rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of man.
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Almighty and everlasting God, You have given us grace to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity by the confession of a true faith and to worship the Unity in the power of the Divine Majesty. Keep us steadfast in this faith and defend us from all adversities; for You, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, live and reign, one God, now and forever. Amen