Song of Songs 1 Cross References - Brenton

¹ The Song of songs, which is Solomon's. ² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine. ³ And the smell of thine ointments is better than all spices: thy name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love thee. ⁴ They have drawn thee: we will run after thee, for the smell of thine ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in thee; we will love thy breasts more than wine: righteousness loves thee. ⁵ I am black, but beautiful, ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. ⁶ Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother's sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard. ⁷ Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions. ⁸ If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed thy kids by the shepherd's tents. ⁹ I have likened thee, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharao. ¹⁰ How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, thy neck as chains! ¹¹ We will make thee figures of gold with studs of silver. ¹² So long as the king was at table, my spikenard gave forth its smell. ¹³ My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; he shall lie between my breasts. ¹⁴ My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of Engaddi. ¹⁵ Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves. ¹⁶ Behold, thou art fair, my kinsman, yea, beautiful, overshadowing our bed. ¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.

³² And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.

^{1 (13:1)} For the end, Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.

¹ Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.

²⁶ And Isaac his father said to him, Draw nigh to me, and kiss me, son. ²⁷ And he drew nigh and kissed him, and smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of an abundant field, which the Lord has blessed.

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and cried with a loud voice and wept.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brethren, and wept on them; and after these things his brethren spoke to him.

¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and ye should perish from the righteous way: whensoever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

^{7 (35:7)} How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings.

^{3 (62:3)} For thy mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise thee. ^{4 (62:4)} Thus will I bless thee during my life: I will lift up my hands in thy name. ^{5 (62:5)} Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise thy name.

⁴ They have drawn thee: we will run after thee, for the smell of thine ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in thee; we will love thy breasts more than wine: righteousness loves thee.

⁴ Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.

¹⁰ How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! how much more beautiful are thy breasts than wine, and the smell of thy garments than all spices!

¹⁶ His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

⁶ How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, my love!

⁹ and thy throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.

¹² Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give thee my breasts.

¹ I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, they should not despise me. ² I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

⁶ And the Lord of hosts shall make a feast for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

¹ Ye that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price. ² Wherefore do ye value at the price of money, and give your labour for that which will not satisfy? hearken to me, and ye shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.

²³ Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus, ²⁴ and of cassia five hundred shekels of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. ²⁵ And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed ointment tempered by the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. ²⁶ And thou shalt anoint with it the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the tabernacle of witness, ²⁷ and all its furniture, and the candlestick and all its furniture, and the altar of incense, ²⁸ and the altar of whole burnt-offerings and all its furniture, and the table and all its furniture, and the laver.

¹² And Moses said to the Lord, Lo! thou sayest to me, Lead on this people; but thou hast not shewed me whom thou wilt send with me, but thou hast said to me, I know thee above all, and thou hast favour with me.

¹⁹ And God said, I will pass by before thee with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.

⁵ And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood near him there, and called by the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true, ⁷ and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity, and unrighteousness, and sins; and he will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

^{7 (44:7)} Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy fellows. ^{8 (44:8)} Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from thy garments, and out of the ivory palaces,

^{14 (44:14)} in embroidered clothing: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to thee.

^{15 (88:15)} Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. ^{16 (88:16)} And in thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

^{2 (132:2)} It is as ointment on the head, that ran down to the beard, even the beard of Aaron; that ran down to the fringe of his clothing.

⁹ The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.

^{1 (7:2)} A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth.

⁶ Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?

⁵ I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

¹³ His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.

^{8 (6:7)} There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

⁶ For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel: for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him. ⁷ His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgement and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

³ that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

⁵ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth. ⁶ In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

^{4 (41:4)} I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of thy wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

^{14 (44:14)} in embroidered clothing: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to thee. ^{15 (44:15)} They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple.

^{9 (47:9)} We have thought of thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy people.

^{5 (62:5)} Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise thy name.

^{4 (97:4)} Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms. ^{5 (97:5)} Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm. ^{6 (97:6)} With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king. ^{7 (97:7)} Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it. ^{8 (97:8)} The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult. ^{9 (97:9)} For he is come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness.

^{1 (102:1)} A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ^{2 (102:2)} Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises:

^{4 (110:4)} He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

^{32 (118:32)} I ran the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.

^{60 (118:60)} I prepared myself, (and was not terrified,) to keep thy commandments.

² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him; and let the children of Sion exult in their king.

² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine. ³ And the smell of thine ointments is better than all spices: thy name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love thee.

³ As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat. ⁴ Bring me into the wine house; set love before me. ⁵ Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.

⁴ It was as a little while after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

⁸ Death has prevailed and swallowed men up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of his people from all the earth: for the mouth off the Lord has spoken it.

^{25 (45:26)} By the Lord shall they be justified, and in God shall all the seed of the children of Israel be glorified.

⁷ I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.

^{3 (38:3)} The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion.

⁴ When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man smiting another on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.

¹⁴ Rejoice, O daughter of Sion; cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; rejoice and delight thyself with all thine heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, the King is coming to thee, just, and a Saviour; he is meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal.

^{9 (44:9)} with which kings' daughters have gladdened thee for thine honour: the queen stood by on thy right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, and arrayed in divers colours.

^{17 (89:17)} And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.

^{5 (119:5)} Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.

⁴ For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.

⁷ I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.

¹⁴ Thou art my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: shew me thy face, and cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is beautiful.

⁵ I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye rouse not nor awake my love, until he please.

¹⁰ He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

³ Thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is thy cheek without thy veil.

⁸ I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

^{4 (6:3)} Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array.

⁴ I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

² We brought a report as of a child before him; he is as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty.

⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nabaeoth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on my altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified.

¹⁰ and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

¹⁴ And thy name went forth among the nations for thy beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon thee, saith the Lord.

¹⁹ And they went both of them until they came to Bethleem: and it came to pass, when they arrived at Bethleem, that all the city rang with them, and they said, Is this Noemin? ²⁰ And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me æBitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call ye me Noemin, whereas the Lord has humbled me and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

³⁰ And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

^{8 (68:8)} I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon; he let his vineyard to keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. ¹² My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon shall have a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.

²¹ For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

⁶ For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even these have dealt treacherously with thee; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of thee; trust not thou in them, though they shall speak fair words to thee.

⁸ HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.

⁶ For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man's enemies.

¹⁶ And he said, I am seeking my brethren; tell me where they feed their flocks.

²⁰ And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: ye have indeed wrought all this iniquity; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart. ²¹ And turn not aside after the gods that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver you, because they are nothing.

^{1 (17:1)} For the end, a Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord; the words which he spoke to the Lord, even the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul: and he said: I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

^{1 (22:1)} A Psalm of David. The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall want nothing. ^{2 (22:2)} In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest.

^{1 (27:1)} A Psalm of David. To thee, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest thou be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

^{1 (79:1)} For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

^{1 (115:1)} Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication.

³ As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

¹⁶ My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me. ² I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. ³ The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. I said, Have ye seen him whom my soul loves? ⁴ It was as a little while after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

¹⁰ My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.

^{3 (6:2)} I am my kinsman's, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies.

¹³ Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: make me hear it.

²⁰ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

⁹ which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks thee very early in the morning, O God, for thy commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, ye that dwell upon the earth.

¹¹ He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

^{12 (40:12)} Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet be in this place, that is desert for want of man and beast, in all the cities thereof, resting-places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

⁴ And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

^{3 (15:3)} On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them.

^{11 (44:11)} Because the king has desired thy beauty; for he is thy Lord.

^{13 (44:13)} All her glory is that of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed as she is in golden fringed garments,

³⁴ watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

¹⁵ Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves.

¹⁰ My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.

¹ Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves, beside thy veil: thy hair is as flocks of goats, that have appeared from Galaad.

⁷ Thou art all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in thee.

⁹ What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, that thou hast so charged us?

^{1 (5:17)} Whither is thy kinsman gone, thou beautiful among women? whither has thy kinsman turned aside? tell us, and we will seek him with thee.

^{4 (6:3)} Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array. ^{5 (6:4)} Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad. ^{6 (6:5)} Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely. ^{7 (6:6)} Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, being seen without thy veil. ^{8 (6:7)} There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number. ^{9 (6:8)} My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her. ^{10 (6:9)} Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as armies set in array?

¹ Thy steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of thy thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman. ² Thy navel is as a turned bowl, not wanting liquor; thy belly is as a heap of wheat set about with lilies. ³ Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns. ⁴ Thy neck is as an ivory tower; thine eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus. ⁵ Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries. ⁶ How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, my love! ⁷ This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to cluster. ⁸ I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose of apples; ⁹ and thy throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth. ¹⁰ I am my kinsman's, and his desire is toward me. ¹¹ Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. ¹² Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give thee my breasts. ¹³ The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors are all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept them for thee.

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in them.

²⁸ And the goings forth of Solomon's horsemen was also out of Egypt, and the king's merchants were of Thecue; and they received them out of Thecue at a price.

¹⁴ And Solomon collected chariots and horsemen: and he had fourteen hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he set them in the cities of chariots, and the people were with the king in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem to be as stones, and cedars in Judea as sycamores in the plain for multitude. ¹⁶ And Solomon imported horses from Egypt, and the charge of the king's merchants for going was as follows, and they traded, ¹⁷ and went and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty pieces of silver: and so they brought for all the kings of the Chettites, and for the kings of Syria by their means.

² As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

¹³ The fig-tree has put forth its young figs, the vines put forth the tender grape, they yield a smell: arise, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yea, come.

² I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

¹ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, which are a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.

²² And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden ear-rings, each of a drachm weight, and he put two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold.

⁴⁷ And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me; and she said, I am daughter of Bathuel the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him; and I put on her the ear-rings, and the bracelets on her hands.

⁴² And Pharao took his ring off his hand, and put it on the hand of Joseph, and put on him a robe of fine linen, and put a necklace of gold about his neck.

⁵⁰ And we have brought our gift to the Lord, every man who has found an article of gold, whether an armlet, or a chain, or a ring, or a bracelet, or a clasp for hair, to make atonement for us before the Lord.

⁹ For thou shalt receive for thine head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round thy neck.

⁹ My sister, my spouse, thou hast ravished my heart; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

¹⁸ and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents, ¹⁹ and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces, ²⁰ and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand, ²¹ and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders,

¹¹ and decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thine hands, and a necklace on thy neck. ¹² And I put a pendant on thy nostril, and rings in thine ears, and a crown of glory on thine head. ¹³ So thou wast adorned with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: thou didst eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and didst become extremely beautiful.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

⁹ If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.

^{1 (44:1)} For the end, for alternate strains by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.

¹³ Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard: ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices: ¹⁵ a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus. ¹⁶ Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; and blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.

⁵ Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

¹¹ And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts.

^{8 (44:8)} Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from thy garments, and out of the ivory palaces,

⁶ Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

¹ Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly.

³ His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. ⁴ I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

⁶² and Aeochioza, and Naphlazon, and the cities of Sadon, and Ancades; seven cities, and their villages.

^{29 (24:1)} And David rose up from thence, and dwelt in the narrow passes of Engaddi.

¹³ My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; he shall lie between my breasts.

¹³ Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard: ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

⁸ If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed thy kids by the shepherd's tents.

¹² His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

¹⁴ Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou has forsaken, and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

^{2 (44:2)} Thou art more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on thy lips: therefore God has blessed thee for ever.

^{3 (109:3)} With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, in the splendours of thy saints: I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning.

⁷ Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.

¹⁰ My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads. ¹¹ His head is as very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven. ¹² His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools. ¹³ His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh. ¹⁴ His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone. ¹⁵ His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars. ¹⁶ His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

¹⁷ For if he has anything good, and if he has anything fair, the young men shall have corn, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.

⁹ So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

⁸ And send me from Libanus cedar wood, and wood of juniper, and pine; for I know that thy servants are skilled in cutting timber in Libanus: and, behold, thy servants shall go with my servants, ⁹ to prepare timber for me in abundance: for the house which I am building must be great and glorious.

^{12 (91:12)} The righteous shall flourish as a palm-tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus.

¹⁶ And the windows were latticed, giving light round about to the three stories, so as to look through: and the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and so was the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window shutters folded back in three parts for one to look through.

³ ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, with triple porticos fronting one another.