Song of Solomon 4-6, 2 Thessalonians 1 - ESV Online

SONG OF SOLOMON 4-6

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Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty

He4:1

Behold, you are beautiful, my love,

behold, you are beautiful!

Your eyes are doves

behind your veil.

Your hair is like a flock of goats

leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 2

Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes

that have come up from the washing,

all of which bear twins,

and not one among them has lost its young. 3

Your lips are like a scarlet thread,

and your mouth is lovely.

Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate

behind your veil. 4

Your neck is like the tower of David,

built in rows of stone;

on it hang a thousand shields,

all of them shields of warriors. 5

Your two breasts are like two fawns,

twins of a gazelle,

that graze among the lilies. 6

Until the day breathes

and the shadows flee,

I will go away to the mountain of myrrh

and the hill of frankincense. 7

You are altogether beautiful, my love;

there is no flaw in you. 8

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;

come with me from Lebanon.

Depart from the peak of Amana,

from the peak of Senir and Hermon,

from the dens of lions,

from the mountains of leopards.
9

You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;

you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes,

with one jewel of your necklace. 10

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!

How much better is your love than wine,

and the fragrance of your oils than any spice! 11

Your lips drip nectar, my bride;

honey and milk are under your tongue;

the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. 12

A garden locked is my sister, my bride,

a spring locked, a fountain sealed. 13

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates

with all choicest fruits,

henna with nard, 14

nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,

with all trees of frankincense,

myrrh and aloes,

with all choice spices— 15

a garden fountain, a well of living water,

and flowing streams from Lebanon. 16

Awake, O north wind,

and come, O south wind!

Blow upon my garden,

let its spices flow.Together in the Garden of Love

She

Let my beloved come to his garden,

and eat its choicest fruits.
He5:1

I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,

I gathered my myrrh with my spice,

I ate my honeycomb with my honey,

I drank my wine with my milk.Others

Eat, friends, drink,

and be drunk with love! The Bride Searches for Her Beloved

She2

I slept, but my heart was awake.

A sound! My beloved is knocking.

“Open to me, my sister, my love,

my dove, my perfect one,

for my head is wet with dew,

my locks with the drops of the night.” 3

I had put off my garment;

how could I put it on?

I had bathed my feet;

how could I soil them? 4

My beloved put his hand to the latch,

and my heart was thrilled within me. 5

I arose to open to my beloved,

and my hands dripped with myrrh,

my fingers with liquid myrrh,

on the handles of the bolt. 6

I opened to my beloved,

but my beloved had turned and gone.

My soul failed me when he spoke.

I sought him, but found him not;

I called him, but he gave no answer. 7

The watchmen found me

as they went about in the city;

they beat me, they bruised me,

they took away my veil,

those watchmen of the walls. 8

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

if you find my beloved,

that you tell him

I am sick with love. Others9

What is your beloved more than another beloved,

O most beautiful among women?

What is your beloved more than another beloved,

that you thus adjure us? The Bride Praises Her Beloved

She10

My beloved is radiant and ruddy,

distinguished among ten thousand. 11

His head is the finest gold;

his locks are wavy,

black as a raven. 12

His eyes are like doves

beside streams of water,

bathed in milk,

sitting beside a full pool. 13

His cheeks are like beds of spices,

mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.

His lips are lilies,

dripping liquid myrrh. 14

His arms are rods of gold,

set with jewels.

His body is polished ivory,

bedecked with sapphires. 15

His legs are alabaster columns,

set on bases of gold.

His appearance is like Lebanon,

choice as the cedars. 16

His mouth is most sweet,

and he is altogether desirable.

This is my beloved and this is my friend,

O daughters of Jerusalem.
Others6:1

Where has your beloved gone,

O most beautiful among women?

Where has your beloved turned,

that we may seek him with you? Together in the Garden of Love

She2

My beloved has gone down to his garden

to the beds of spices,

to graze in the gardens

and to gather lilies. 3

I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;

he grazes among the lilies. Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

He4

You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,

lovely as Jerusalem,

awesome as an army with banners. 5

Turn away your eyes from me,

for they overwhelm me—

Your hair is like a flock of goats

leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 6

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

that have come up from the washing;

all of them bear twins;

not one among them has lost its young. 7

Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate

behind your veil. 8

There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,

and virgins without number. 9

My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,

the only one of her mother,

pure to her who bore her.

The young women saw her and called her blessed;

the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.
10

“Who is this who looks down like the dawn,

beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,

awesome as an army with banners?” She11

I went down to the nut orchard

to look at the blossoms of the valley,

to see whether the vines had budded,

whether the pomegranates were in bloom. 12

Before I was aware, my desire set me

among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince. Others13

Return, return, O Shulammite,

return, return, that we may look upon you.He

Why should you look upon the Shulammite,

as upon a dance before two armies?

2 THESSALONIANS 1

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Greeting

  1:1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,
    To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
    2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanksgiving

3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. 4 Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. The Judgment at Christ’s Coming

5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— 6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. 11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.