First ReadingProverbs 8:22-31
From the Book of Proverbs
22“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his work,before his deeds of old.23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,before the earth existed.24When there were no depths, I was born,when there were no springs abounding with water.25Before the mountains were settled in place,before the hills, I was born;26while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,nor the beginning of the dust of the world.27When he established the heavens, I was there.When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,28when he established the clouds above,when the springs of the deep became strong,29when he gave to the sea its boundary,that the waters should not violate his commandment,when he marked out the foundations of the earth,30then I was the craftsman by his side.I was a delight day by day,always rejoicing before him,31rejoicing in his whole world.My delight was with the sons of men.