SONG OF SOLOMON 5

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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 BelovedShe2

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 BelovedShe10

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.

SONG OF SOLOMON 6

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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 LoveShe2

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 OtherHe4

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.
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“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?

PSALM 53

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There Is None Who Does GoodTo the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
53:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;

there is none who does good.
2

God looks down from heaven

on the children of man

to see if there are any who understand,

who seek after God.
3

They have all fallen away;

together they have become corrupt;

there is none who does good,

not even one.
4

Have those who work evil no knowledge,

who eat up my people as they eat bread,

and do not call upon God?
5

There they are, in great terror,

where there is no terror!

For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;

you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
6

Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!

When God restores the fortunes of his people,

let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

PSALM 54

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The Lord Upholds My LifeTo the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?”
54:1

O God, save me by your name,

and vindicate me by your might. 2

O God, hear my prayer;

give ear to the words of my mouth.
3

For strangers have risen against me;

ruthless men seek my life;

they do not set God before themselves. Selah
4

Behold, God is my helper;

the Lord is the upholder of my life. 5

He will return the evil to my enemies;

in your faithfulness put an end to them.
6

With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you;

I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good. 7

For he has delivered me from every trouble,

and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.

PROVERBS 7

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Warning Against the Adulteress7:1

My son, keep my words

and treasure up my commandments with you; 2

keep my commandments and live;

keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3

bind them on your fingers;

write them on the tablet of your heart. 4

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and call insight your intimate friend, 5

to keep you from the forbidden woman,

from the adulteress with her smooth words.
6

For at the window of my house

I have looked out through my lattice, 7

and I have seen among the simple,

I have perceived among the youths,

a young man lacking sense, 8

passing along the street near her corner,

taking the road to her house 9

in the twilight, in the evening,

at the time of night and darkness.
10

And behold, the woman meets him,

dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. 11

She is loud and wayward;

her feet do not stay at home; 12

now in the street, now in the market,

and at every corner she lies in wait. 13

She seizes him and kisses him,

and with bold face she says to him, 14

“I had to offer sacrifices,

and today I have paid my vows; 15

so now I have come out to meet you,

to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. 16

I have spread my couch with coverings,

colored linens from Egyptian linen; 17

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,

aloes, and cinnamon. 18

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;

let us delight ourselves with love. 19

For my husband is not at home;

he has gone on a long journey; 20

he took a bag of money with him;

at full moon he will come home.”
21

With much seductive speech she persuades him;

with her smooth talk she compels him. 22

All at once he follows her,

as an ox goes to the slaughter,

or as a stag is caught fast 23

till an arrow pierces its liver;

as a bird rushes into a snare;

he does not know that it will cost him his life.
24

And now, O sons, listen to me,

and be attentive to the words of my mouth. 25

Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;

do not stray into her paths, 26

for many a victim has she laid low,

and all her slain are a mighty throng. 27

Her house is the way to Sheol,

going down to the chambers of death.