9 He created me in eternity, before time began,and I will exist for all eternity to come.
10 I served him in the sacred Tentand then made my home on Mount Zion.
11 He settled me in the Beloved Cityand gave me authority over Jerusalem.
12 I put down roots among an honoured peoplewhom the Lord had chosen as his own.
13 I grew tall, like the cedars in Lebanon,like the cypresses on Mount Hermon,
14 like the palm-trees of Engedi,like the roses of Jericho,like beautiful olive-trees in the fields,like plane-trees growing by the water.
15 My breath was the spicy smell of cinnamon,of sweet perfume and finest myrrh,of stacte, onycha, and galbanum,the fragrant incense in the sacred Tent.