³ I am the word spoken by the Most High.
    I covered the earth like a mist.
^4 (A)I made my home in highest heaven,
    my throne on a pillar of cloud.

¹² I put down roots among an honored people
    whom 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,^[a]
    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.
¹⁶ Like an oak I spread out my branches,
    magnificent and graceful.