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I will praise thy name continually, and will sing praises with thanksgiving; and so my prayer
was heard:
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For thou savedst me from destruction, and deliveredst me from the evil time: therefore will
I give thanks, and praise thee, and bless they name, O Lord.
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When I was yet young, or ever I went abroad, I desired wisdom openly in my prayer.
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I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out even to the end.
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Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her: my foot went the
right way, from my youth up sought I after her.
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I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, and gat much learning.
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I profited therein, therefore will I ascribe glory unto him that giveth me wisdom.
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For I purposed to do after her, and earnestly I followed that which is good; so shall I not be
confounded.
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My soul hath wrestled with her, and in my doings I was exact: I stretched forth my hands to
the heaven above, and bewailed my ignorances of her.
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I directed my soul unto her, and I found her in pureness: I have had my heart joined with her
from the beginning, therefore shall I not be foresaken.
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My heart was troubled in seeking her: therefore have I gotten a good possession.
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The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward, and I will praise him therewith.
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Draw near unto me, ye unlearned, and dwell in the house of learning.
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Wherefore are ye slow, and what say ye to these things, seeing your souls are very thirsty?
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I opened my mouth, and said, Buy her for yourselves without money.
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Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive instruction: she is hard at hand to find.
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Behold with your eyes, how that I have but little labour, and have gotten unto me much rest.
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Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her.
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Let your soul rejoice in his mercy, and be not ashamed of his praise.
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Work your work betimes, and in his time he will give you your reward.
The Book of
Baruch
CHAPTER 1
And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son
of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,
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In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem,
and burnt it with fire.
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