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Wisdom Hosts a Banquet

Wisdom has built her house.
    She has carved out her seven pillars.
She has prepared her meat.
    She has mixed her wine.
    She has set her table.
She has sent out her servant girls.
    She calls from the highest places in the city,

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Wisdom builded an house to himself (Wisdom built a house for himself); he hewed out seven pillars,

he offered his slain sacrifices, he meddled wine (he mixed in spices with the wine), and setted forth his table.

He sent his handmaids (He sent forth his servantesses), that they should call to the tower; and to the walls of the city.

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Invitations of Wisdom and Folly

Wisdom has built(A) her house;
    she has set up[a] its seven pillars.
She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine;(B)
    she has also set her table.(C)
She has sent out her servants, and she calls(D)
    from the highest point of the city,(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:1 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew has hewn out