Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.
and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens.
O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.