*The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
*God understands its way, and he knows its place.
The LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
By wisdom the LORD founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
But you, Beit-Lechem Efratah, being small among the clans of Yehudah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Yisra'el; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
*To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: *The Amein, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things: