Song of Songs 3 Cross References - Darby

¹ On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. ² I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broadways Will I seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. ³ The watchmen that go about the city found me: -- Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth? ⁴ -- Scarcely had I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother`s house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me. <sup>5</sup> I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please. <sup>6</sup> Who is this, [she] that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant? ... <sup>7</sup> Behold his couch, Solomon`s own: Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty of Israel. ⁸ They all hold the sword, Experts in war; Each hath his sword upon his thigh Because of alarm in the nights. ⁹ King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon. ¹⁰ Its pillars he made of silver, Its support of gold, Its seat of purple; The midst thereof was paved [with] love By the daughters of Jerusalem. ¹¹ Go forth, daughters of Zion, And behold king Solomon With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

²¹ And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them [in] the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night. ²² The pillar of the cloud did not remove [from] before the people by day, nor the pillar of fire by night.

³⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant drugs -- stacte, and onycha, and galbanum -- fragrant drugs and pure frankincense; in like proportions shall it be.

² And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

¹⁶ And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.

⁵² And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to himself.

² And David said to Achish, Thereby thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of my person for ever.

⁵ Although my house be not so before ?God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.

²² But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen; but they were men of war, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his captains, and captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.

²⁷ And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king`s house.

¹⁷ And Elisha prayed and said, Jehovah, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And Jehovah opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

²¹ And we laboured in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared. ²² Likewise at the same time I said to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and [be for] labour in the day.

⁸ Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him; ⁹ On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not.

⁴ Be moved with anger, and sin not; meditate in your own hearts upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

⁶ I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.

¹⁴ That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation.

¹ {To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My ?God, my ?God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning? ² My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:

² My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:

⁷ Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me. ⁸ In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the ?God of my life. ⁹ I will say unto ?God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

² For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ³ Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations. ⁴ Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the ?God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God. ⁵ Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

³ Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O mighty one, [in] thy majesty and thy splendour;

¹¹ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

⁶ When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches: ⁷ For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy. ⁸ My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

² In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted. ³ I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴ Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.

⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? ⁸ Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath [his] word come to an end from generation to generation? ⁹ Hath ?God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. ¹⁰ Then said I, This is my weakness: -- the years of the right hand of the Most High

³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, for the arrow that flieth by day,

¹ {A Song of degrees.} Out of the depths do I call upon thee, Jehovah. ² Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

⁵ Let the godly exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds. ⁶ Let the high praises of ?God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand: ⁷ To execute vengeance against the nations, [and] punishment among the peoples; ⁸ To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; ⁹ To execute upon them the judgment written. This honour have all his saints. Hallelujah!

²⁰ Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways; ²¹ she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:

¹³ Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

² On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand. ³ Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.

¹⁷ I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

³⁴ Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

³ Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.

⁵ I am black, but comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.

⁷ Tell me, thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest [thy flock], Where thou makest it to rest at noon; For why should I be as one veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?

¹³ A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me; He shall pass the night between my breasts.

¹⁶ Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green.

⁷ I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.

⁷ Behold his couch, Solomon`s own: Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty of Israel.

⁹ King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.

⁶ Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.

¹² A garden enclosed is my sister, [my] spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. ¹³ Thy shoots are a paradise of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants; ¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

⁵ I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the lock. ⁶ I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself; he was gone: My soul went forth when he spoke. I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he gave me no answer. ⁷ The watchmen that went about the city found me; They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. ⁸ I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, ... What will ye tell him? -- That I am sick of love.

¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

¹² Before I was aware, My soul set me upon the chariots of my willing people.

⁵ Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by [thy] ringlets!

¹¹ -- Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages.

² I would lead thee, bring thee into my mother`s house; Thou wouldest instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

⁴ I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, ... Why should ye stir up, why awake [my] love, till he please? ⁵ Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth [that] bore thee.

¹⁶ And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet; ¹⁷ therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

⁴ when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured out the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

⁶ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty ?God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

⁶ For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. ⁷ And he saw chariots, horsemen by pairs, a chariot with asses, a chariot with camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed. ⁸ And he cried [as] a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

¹¹ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ¹² The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.

⁹ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

³ I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.

¹⁹ behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I [am] Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are right.

¹⁴ But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. ¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee. ¹⁶ Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls are continually before me. ¹⁷ Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee. ¹⁸ Lift up thine eyes round about and behold: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt indeed clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and bind them on as a bride doth.

¹¹ He shall see of [the fruit of] the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant instruct many in righteousness; and *he* shall bear their iniquities.

¹ Exult, thou barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and shout for joy, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah. ² Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. ³ For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess nations, and they shall make desolate cities to be inhabited.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁰ His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:

⁵ For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, shall thy sons marry thee; and with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, shall thy God rejoice over thee. ⁶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, keep not silence,

⁷ and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.

² Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

¹ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broadways thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that doeth justice, that seeketh fidelity; and I will pardon it.

¹³ and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me with all your heart,

² Thus saith Jehovah: The people [that were] left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, [even] Israel, when I go to give him rest.

⁴¹ And I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

²⁵ Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.

¹⁷ Son of man, I have appointed thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

² Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them all, and set him for their watchman: ³ if he see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and warn the people; ⁴ then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. ⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood is upon him: whereas had he taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. ⁶ But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come and take a person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman`s hand. ⁷ So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me. ⁸ When I say unto the wicked, Wicked [man], thou shalt certainly die; and thou speakest not to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. ⁹ But if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

¹⁹ And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; and I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies; ²⁰ and I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know Jehovah.

³ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he wrestled with God. ⁴ Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

²⁹ Yea, even upon the bondmen and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit. ³⁰ And I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. ³¹ The sun shall be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.

⁸ And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the first dominion shall come, -- the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.

¹⁷ Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a mighty one that will save: he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will exult over thee with singing.

¹¹ And having come into the house they saw the little child with Mary his mother, and falling down did him homage. And having opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

⁴² A queen of [the] south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon [is] here.

⁴⁰ And he comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Thus ye have not been able to watch one hour with me? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] ready, but the flesh weak.

⁹ And as they went to bring his disciples word, behold also, Jesus met them, saying, Hail! And they coming up took him by the feet, and did him homage.

²⁴ Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

²¹ And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind. ²² And the bondman said, Sir, it is done as thou hast commanded, and there is still room. ²³ And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;

⁶ and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep. ⁷ I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

²³ and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry: ²⁴ for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

³² But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, his name John.

²⁹ He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.

¹¹ I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.

¹⁵ Jesus says to her, Woman, why dost thou weep? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing that it was the gardener, says to him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. ¹⁶ Jesus says to her, Mary. She, turning round, says to him in Hebrew, Rabboni, which means Teacher. ¹⁷ Jesus says to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and [to] my God and your God.

¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, art thou attached to me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Art thou attached to me? and said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

¹⁸ yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. ¹⁹ And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: ²⁰ the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of [the] Lord come. ²¹ And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of [the] Lord shall be saved.

⁸ but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

¹¹ This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.

³⁴ Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

¹⁴ But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place. ¹⁵ For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish: ¹⁶ to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?

²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

¹⁸ in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height; ¹⁹ and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of God.

¹⁴ Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

¹⁶ besides all [these], having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God`s word; ¹⁸ praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in [the] Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

⁹ Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal [beings], ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord to God [the] Father`s glory.

¹⁸ But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [sent] from you, an odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God.

¹⁸ And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:

¹ If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things [which are] above, where the Christ is, sitting at [the] right hand of God: ² have your mind on the things [that are] above, not on the things [that are] on the earth;

⁶ So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober; ⁷ for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night; ⁸ but *we* being of [the] day, let us be sober, putting on [the] breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet [the] hope of salvation;

¹⁵ but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God`s house, which is [the] assembly of [the] living God, [the] pillar and base of the truth. ¹⁶ And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in [the] Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among [the] nations, has been believed on in [the] world, has been received up in glory.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service on account of those who shall inherit salvation?

⁹ but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

¹³ therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach:

¹⁷ Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for *they* watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.

⁸ whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom [though] not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with [the] glory,

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood,

⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they which have pierced him, and all the tribes of the land shall wail because of him. Yea. Amen.

¹¹ I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, that no one take thy crown. ¹² He that overcomes, him will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more at all out; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven, from my God, and my new name.

¹² He that overcomes, him will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more at all out; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven, from my God, and my new name.

⁸ And when it took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each a harp and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, ¹⁰ and made them to our God kings and priests; and they shall reign over the earth.

⁶ And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has there a place prepared of God, that they should nourish her there a thousand two hundred [and] sixty days.

¹⁴ And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the desert into her place, where she is nourished there a time, and times, and half a time, from [the] face of the serpent.

⁶ And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having [the] everlasting glad tidings to announce to those settled on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,

⁷ Let us rejoice and exult, and give him glory; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.

¹² And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head many diadems, having a name written which no one knows but himself;

⁹ And he says to me, See [thou do it] not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and [the fellow-bondman] of thy brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Do homage to God. ¹⁰ And he says to me, Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book. The time is near.