From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:

She will place a fair garland on your head; she will bestow a beautiful crown on you.”

At the top of the elevated places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she takes her stand;

before he made the earth and its fields, or the beginning of the dust of the world.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.

People will curse the one who withholds grain, but they will praise the one who sells it.

And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.

for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.