O Wisdom

O Wisdom, O holy Word of God,
you govern all creation
with your strong but tender care.
Come and show your people the way to salvation.

--Vespers antiphon


O come, O Wisdom from on high,
Who orders all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.

--Latin hymn – ninth century


From the mouth, of the Most High I came forth
And mistlike covered the earth.
Before all ages, in the beginning, God created me,
And through all ages I shall not cease to be.
Come to me, all you that yearn for me,
And be filled with my fruits.

--Sirach 24: 3, 9, 18