Song of Songs 8 Cross References - MLV

¹ Oh that you were as my brother, who sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find you outside, I would kiss you. Yes and none would despise me. ² I would lead you and bring you into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would cause you to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. ³ His left hand under my head and his right hand should embrace me.
⁴ I swear to you*, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you* do not stir up, nor awake love, until it please.
⁵ Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awoke you. There your mother was in travail with you. There she who brought you forth was in travail
⁶ Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm. Because love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as Sheol. The flashes of it are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.
⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, nor can floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
⁸ We have a little sister and she has no breasts. What will we do for our sister in the day when she will be spoken for? ⁹ If she is a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver. And if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. ¹⁰ I am a wall and my breasts like the towers. Then I was in his eyes as one who found peace.
¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon. He let out the vineyard to keepers. Every one for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. ¹² My vineyard, which is mine, is before me. You, O Solomon, will have the thousand and those who keep the fruit of it, two hundred.
¹³ You who dwell in the gardens, the companions listen for your voice. Cause me to hear it. ¹⁴ Make haste, my beloved and be like to a roe or to a young male-deer upon the mountains of spices.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter and consider and incline your ear. Forget also your own people and your father's house. ¹¹ So will the king desire your beauty, because he is your lord and bow to him.

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and crushed heart, O God, you will not despise.

¹⁶ Because Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
¹⁷ He has regarded the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.

² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, because your love is better than wine.

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you* a sign: Behold, a virgin will conceive and bear a son and will call his name Immanuel.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government will be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

¹⁴ And the sons of those who afflicted you will come bending to you. And all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. And they will call you The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹¹ that you* may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations, that you* may get milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
¹² For Jehovah says thus, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. And you* will nurse of it. You* will be borne upon the side and will be dandled upon the knees.

⁷ And I will shake all nations and the delight of all nations will come and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king comes to you. He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding upon a donkey, even upon a colt the foal of a donkey.

¹ Behold, I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom you* seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom you* desire, behold, he comes, says Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁶ But your eyes are fortunate, because they are seeing, and your ears, because they are hearing. ¹⁷ For assuredly I am saying to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things you are seeing and did not see them, and to hear the things you are hearing and did not hear them.

⁴² And a poor widow came and she cast in two bronze-coins, which is equal to a copper coin. ⁴³ And he called his disciples to him and says to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, This poor widow has cast in more-than all those who are casting in much into the treasury; ⁴⁴ for they all cast in out of what is abounding to them, but she cast in, out of her lack of all things, as many things as she had, her whole livelihood.
{Joh 12:20-50) In the Temple, Tues.}

⁶ But Jesus said, Allow her. Why are you harassing her? She has worked a good work in me. ⁷ For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish, you are able to do them good, but you do not always have me. ⁸ What she had, this she did. She took upon herself beforehand to perfume my body for its burial. ⁹ And assuredly I am saying to you, Wherever this good-news is preached into the whole world, what also she has done, this will be spoken for her memorial.

²⁶ And it was divinely-spoken to him from the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he should see the Lord’s Christ. ²⁷ And he came in the Spirit into the temple, while the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do according to the custom of the law concerning him. ²⁸ Then he accepted him into his arms and thanked God and said, ²⁹ Now Master, dismiss your bondservant according to your word in peace, ³⁰ because my eyes have seen your salvation ³¹ which you have prepared in the face of all peoples. ³² He is a light for revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of your people Israel.

³⁸ And standing up in that same hour, she was fully-professing the Lord and was speaking concerning him to all those who were waiting for the redemption in Jerusalem.

⁴⁵ You gave me no kiss, but, from the time I came in she has continually kissed my feet. ⁴⁶ You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume. ⁴⁷ Because of which, I say to you, Her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, because she loved much, but to whom few is forgiven, the same loves few. ⁴⁸ Now he said to her, Your sins have been forgiven.

²⁶ For whoever is ashamed of me, and of my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him whenever he comes in his own glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy messengers.

¹⁶ He who hears you, hears me; and he who is rejecting you, rejects me; and he who rejects me, rejects the one who sent me.

²³ And having turned to the disciples, he said privately, The eyes which see what you see are fortunate. ²⁴ For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you are seeing and did not see them, and to hear the things which you are hearing and did not hear them.

⁸ Now I say to you, Everyone–whomever confesses to be in me before men, the Son of Man will also confess to be in him before the messengers of God.

⁹ Now he spoke this parable to some who have confidence in themselves, that they were righteous, and scorning the rest:

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and resided among us (and we saw his glory, glory like that of the only begotten from the Father), full of favor and truth.

¹³ And no one has ascended into heaven, except he who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

⁴⁶ The attendants answered, Never, has a man spoken thus, like this man.
⁴⁷ Therefore the Pharisees answered them, You have not also been misled, have you? ⁴⁸ Not anyone from the rulers or from the Pharisees believed in him, have they? ⁴⁹ But this crowd who does not know the law are cursed.
⁵⁰ Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one out of them), ⁵¹ Our law is not judging a man, if it does not hear from him beforehand and may know what he is doing, does it?
⁵² They answered and said to him, You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search and behold that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.

⁴² Therefore Jesus said to them, If God was your Father, you would love me; for I came out and have come from God; for neither have I come from myself, but from that one who sent me.

²⁵ Therefore that man answered and said, I do not know if he is a sinner. I know one thing, that I was blind, but now I can see.
²⁶ But they said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?
²⁷ He answered them, I spoke to you already and you did not hear; why are you wishing to hear it again? Do you wish also to become his disciples?
²⁸ They reviled him and said, You are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but this one, we do not know where he is from.
³⁰ The man answered and said to them, For a marvelous thing is in this, because you do not know where he is from and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹ But we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and if he is practicing his will, he hears him. ³² It has not been heard from the beginning of the world, that anyone has opened the eyes of one who had been born blind. ³³ If this one was not from God, he would be unable to do anything.
³⁴ They answered and said to him, You were born entirely in sins and you are teaching us! And they cast him outside.
³⁵ Jesus heard that they had cast him outside, and having found him, he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God?
³⁶ That man answered and said, Who is he, Lord, in order that I should believe in him?
³⁷ Now Jesus said to him, You have both seen him and he who speaks with you is that man.
³⁸ But he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him.

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father has given all the things into his hands and that he came forth from God and is going to God,

²⁸ I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and I am traveling on to the Father.

²⁸ and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things which have been scorned and the things which are not, in order that he might do-away-with the things which are;

²⁶ But the Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of all of us.

¹⁴ But let it not happen for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

³ For we are the circumcision, who are giving-divine service in the spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

⁷ But what things were gains for me, I have deemed these a forfeiture because of the Christ. ⁸ But therefore, I am also deeming all things indeed to be a forfeiture because of the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom, I forfeited all things, and am deeming them to be but trash, in order that I may gain Christ,

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness : God was manifested in the flesh, was made righteous in the Spirit, was seen by messengers, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.

⁹ But we see Jesus who has been made a bit of something inferior, less than the messengers, having been crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of the death he underwent, that in the grace from God, he should taste of death on behalf of everyone. ¹⁰ For it was suitable for him, because of whom are all things and through whom are all things, having led many sons to glory, to complete the author of their salvation through sufferings. ¹¹ For both he who is making holy and those who are made holy are all from one. Because of which case, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, ¹² saying, ‘I will be proclaiming your name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will be singing hymns to you.’ ¹³ And again, ‘I will have confidence in him.’And again, ‘Behold, here I am and the children whom God has given me.’ ¹⁴ Therefore since the children have shared of flesh and blood, in like-manner he partook of the same; in order that through death, he might do-away-with the one who had the dominion of death, this is the devil;

²⁶ since often it was essential for him to suffer from the conception of the world, but now once for all upon the end of the ages, he has been manifested for the nullifying of sin through the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ And inasmuch as it is laid up for men to die once but after this is the judgment; ²⁸ so the Christ, (having been offered once for all, that he should carry the sins of many), will also be seen a second-time for salvation, separate from sin, to the same who are waiting for him.

² She has killed her beasts. She has mingled her wine. She has also furnished her table.

⁴ It was but a little that I passed from them when I found he whom my soul loves. 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 who conceived me.

¹⁰ How fair is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine and the fragrance of your oils than all manner of spices!

⁹ and your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips and teeth.

¹² Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

²⁹ But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.
³⁰ But he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone travels to them from the dead, they will be repenting.
³¹ But he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if someone rises up from the dead.

³⁹ You are searching the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life, and these are those which are testifying concerning me;

⁴⁶ For if you believed in Moses, you would believe in me; for that man wrote concerning me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe the Scriptures of that man, how will you believe my declarations?

¹¹ Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they accepted the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see if these things were so. ¹² Therefore indeed, many out of them believed; also not just a few of the prominent Greek women and men.

¹⁵ And you have known, that from a baby, the sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ Concerning which salvation the prophets, who prophesied concerning the favor that would come to you, sought out and utterly searched out; ¹¹ searching what time or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, when testifying beforehand of the sufferings for Christ and the glories following after these things. ¹² To whom it was revealed, that they were serving these things not to themselves, but to you; which things now have been reported to you through those who proclaimed the good-news to you in the Holy Spirit, when he was sent forth from heaven; into which things messengers desire to peer into.

¹⁹ And we have the steadfast prophetic word, (as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day should dawn and the morning-star might rise), to which you are doing well, and taking-heed in your hearts.

¹⁰ And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, See that you do not do that. I am a fellow bondservant of you and of your brethren who are holding the testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

²⁷ The God of long-ago is your dwelling-place and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before you and said, Destroy.

⁶ His left hand is under my head and his right hand embraces me.

⁴ You will no more be termed Forsaken, nor will your land any more be termed Desolate. But you will be called My Delight is in Her, for Jehovah delights in you and your land will be married. ⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin, so will your sons marry you. And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

⁹ And he has said to me, My grace is enough for you; for my power is completed in weakness. Therefore I will rather gladly be boasting in my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ might reside upon me.

⁷ I swear to you*, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the female-deers of the field, that you* do not stir up, nor awake love, until it please.

⁵ I swear to you*, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the female-deers of the field, that you* do not stir up, nor awake love, until it please.

⁸ With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is Jehovah our God to help us and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

⁸ My soul follows close after you. Your right hand upholds me.

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, ³ and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation. ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
⁶ Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses. ⁷ He also led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
⁸ O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

³ As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

⁶ Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

¹¹ Go forth, O you* daughters of Zion and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother has crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

⁸ Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

¹⁰ Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, sublime as an army with banners?

¹ Oh that you were as my brother, who sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find you outside, I would kiss you. Yes and none would despise me.

³ You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. ⁴ Trust in Jehovah forever, for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.

⁶ Behold, you trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh King of Egypt to all who trust on him.

³ The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it will spring forth. Shall you* not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

²⁰ The sons of your bereavement will yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give a place to me that I may dwell. ²¹ Then you will say in your heart, Who has fathered these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons and am solitary, an exile and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they?
²² The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations and set up my ensign to the peoples. And they will bring your sons in their bosom and your daughters will be carried upon their shoulders. ²³ And kings will be your nursing fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet. And you will know that I am Jehovah and those who wait for me will not be put to shame.

² Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Jehovah says thus, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

⁴ Yes, he had strength over the messenger and prevailed, as he wept and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel and there he spoke with us.

¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe and the priests of it teach for a wage and the prophets of it divine for money.
Yet they lean upon Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

⁴⁸ Nathanael says to him, From where do you know me?
Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip summoned you, I saw you being under the fig tree.
⁴⁹ Nathanael answered and says to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.
⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, Is it because I said to you, I saw you underneath the fig tree that you believe? You will be seeing greater than these things. ⁵¹ And he says to him, Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, From now on, you will be seeing the heaven has opened, and the messengers of God ascending and coming down upon the Son of Man.

²³ But one of his disciples was reclining on Jesus’bosom, the one whom Jesus loved.

²³ For there stood beside me this night a messenger of the God, whose I am, to whom I also am giving-divine service to, ²⁴ saying, Do not fear, Paul; it is essential for you to stand-before Caesar and behold, God has granted to you all those who are sailing with you. ²⁵ Hence, be cheerful, men; for I believe God, that it will be so according to the manner it has been spoken to me.

⁴ So-then my brethren, you were also slain to the law through the body of Christ; that you should become joined to a different one, that is to the one who was raised up from the dead, in order that we might bear-fruit to God.

⁹ And he has said to me, My grace is enough for you; for my power is completed in weakness. Therefore I will rather gladly be boasting in my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ might reside upon me. ¹⁰ Hence I am delighting in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, on behalf of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am mighty.

¹⁹ My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till whenever Christ has been formed in you.

¹² That we should be for the praise of his glory, we who have hoped before in the Christ, ¹³ in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the good-news of your salvation, in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

²¹ who believe through him in God. The God who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory; so-that your faith and hope might be in God.

⁶ And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in order that they may nourish her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

⁹ And you will take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel: ¹⁰ six of their names on the one stone and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth. ¹¹ With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you will engrave the two stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel. You will make them to be enclosed in settings of gold. ¹² And you will put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the sons of Israel. And Aaron will bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

²¹ And the stones will be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name; they will be for the twelve tribes.

²⁹ And Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Jehovah continually.
³⁰ And you will put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim and they will be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Jehovah. And Aaron will bear the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.

¹⁴ and the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled, or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife and she is not defiled,

¹¹ Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with what is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

¹ As the male-deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, O God. ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

¹ O God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.

² My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of Jehovah. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

³⁴ Because jealousy is a man's fury and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

²² Because you will heap coals of fire upon his head and Jehovah will reward you.

⁸ I swear to you*, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you* find my beloved, that you* tell him that I am sick from love.

¹⁶ Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

²⁴ As I live, says Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet I would pluck you from there,

²³ In that day, says Jehovah of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says Jehovah and will make you as a signet. For I have chosen you, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁹ For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua. Upon one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave the graving of it, says Jehovah of hosts and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

¹⁵ Therefore when they had a meal, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me more-than these things?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Feed my lambs.
¹⁶ He says to him again a second-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you ^{F} love me?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.
He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.
¹⁷ He says to him the third-time, Simon, Son of Jonah, Do you ^{F} love me?
Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third-time, Do you ^{F} love me like a friend? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you like a friend.
Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁸ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, When you were younger, you were girding yourself and were walking where you were wishing to go, but whenever you are elderly, you will stretch out your hands and another will gird you and will be carrying you where you do not wish. ¹⁹ Now he spoke this signifying by what sort of death he should glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, Follow me.

²⁴ But I make account of nothing, nor am I holding my life as precious to myself, as I desire to complete my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to thoroughly testify the good-news of the favor of God.

¹³ But Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and crushing my heart? For I am not only ready to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem on behalf of the name of the Lord Jesus.

²⁰ Therefore, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for while doing this, you will be piling up hot-coals of fire upon his head.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ is holding us together with him, having judged this thing: if one died on behalf of all, consequently, all died; ¹⁵ and he died on behalf of all, in order that those who are living should no longer live to themselves, but to the one who died and rose again on their behalf.

² For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God; for I espoused you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Christ.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will be shamed in nothing, but as always, now Christ will also be magnified in my body in all boldness, whether through life or through death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But if to live in the flesh–this is the fruit of work to me, and what will I select for myself? I do not know. ²³ But I am troubled from the two ends, having the desire, that I should vacate and be together with Christ, but it is much better rather

¹⁹ Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal, ‘The Lord knows those who are his,’

¹¹ And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.

³¹ Yet if he is found, he will restore sevenfold. He will give all the substance of his house.

³⁵ He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be satisfied, because you give many gifts.

² When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, nor will the flame kindle upon you.

²⁴ Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and practices them, he will be similar to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain came down and the rivers came up and the winds blew and fell down upon that house, and it did not fall; for it had been founded upon the rock.

²⁸ Now we know that all things work together toward good, to those who love God, to those who are an invited one according to his purpose. ²⁹ Because, whom he knew beforehand, he also predetermined, one transformed to the image of his Son, that he himself might be the firstborn among many brethren; ³⁰ and whom he predetermined, he also invited these and whom he invited, he also made these righteous and whom he made righteous, he also glorified these.
³¹ Therefore what will we say to these things? If God is working on our behalf, who is against us? ³² Yet, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all, how will he not also be granting to us all things together with him? ³³ Who shall accuse anything against God’s chosen? It is God who makes righteous. ³⁴ Who is the one who condemns? Christ is the one who died, but rather, who was also raised up from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also is petitioning on our behalf.
³⁵ Who will be separating us away from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ Just-as it has been written, ‘Because of you we are slain the whole day. We were counted as sheep of the slaughter.’ ³⁷ But we are victorious in all these things through the one who loved us. ³⁸ For I have confidence, that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor present things, nor future things, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor some other created thing, will be able to separate us away from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁸ Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for he who loves the other has fulfilled the law. ⁹ For the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery; Do not murder; Do not steal; Do not covet, and if there is some other commandment in this word, it is summed up in the commandment : ‘You will love your neighbor like yourself.’ ¹⁰ Love works no evil to ward his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

⁸ Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance and the outermost parts of the earth as your possession.

¹⁷ His name will endure everlasting. His name will be continued as long as the sun. And men will call him fortunate. All nations will call him fortunate.
¹⁸ Praise Jehovah God, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. ¹⁹ And praise his glorious name everlasting. And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Truly and Truly.

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them.
Praise Jehovah.

⁵ Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

³ Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe.

¹⁰ I am a wall and my breasts like the towers. Then I was in his eyes as one who found peace.

⁶ yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

¹ Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you. ² For, behold, darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the peoples. But Jehovah will arise upon you and his glory will be seen upon you. ³ And nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising. ⁴ Lift up your eyes all around and see. They all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far and your daughters will be carried in the arms. ⁵ Then you will see and be radiant and your heart will thrill and be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.

¹⁰ And foreigners will build up your walls and their kings will minister to you. For in my wrath I killed* you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you. ¹¹ Your gates also will be open continually. They will not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations and their kings led captive.

⁷ I caused you to multiply as what grows in the field and you increased and grew great. And you attained to excellent ornament, your breasts were fashioned and your hair was grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

⁴⁶ And your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters. And your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

⁵⁵ And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate and you and your daughters will return to your* former estate.
⁵⁶ For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

⁶¹ Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you will receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

³³ You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

⁴⁴ and will be leveling you to the bedrock, and your children among you, and they will not be leaving in you one stone upon another stone, because you did not know the time of your visitation.

¹⁶ And I have other sheep, which are not out of this pen; it is also essential for me to lead those and they will be hearing my voice and there will become one flock, only one shepherd.

³⁸ This is he who came to be in the congregation in the wilderness with the messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and from our fathers. This is he who accepted the living word to give to us;

¹ Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what is called the Italian cohort, ² a devout man, who feared God together with all his house and doing much charity for the people and always beseeching God. ³ He saw openly in a vision, at approximately the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God who came to him and said to him, Cornelius.
⁴ But having stared at him and becoming fearful, said, What is it, Lord?
But he said to him, Your prayers and your charity have gone up for a memorial in God’s sight. ⁵ And now send men to Joppa and send for Simon, who is surnamed Peter. ⁶ He is lodging with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea. He will tell you something that is essential for you to do. \ulnone\nosupersub ⁷ Now as the messenger, the one who had been speaking to Cornelius, went away, he summoned two of his domestic servants and a devout soldier of those who are persevering with him; ⁸ and having described all these things to them, he sent them to Joppa.


⁹ Now on the next-day, while those men are traveling and drawing near to the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray, around the sixth hour. ¹⁰ Now he became very hungry and wished to eat, but when those men were preparing the food, a trance fell upon him. ¹¹ And he views the heaven having opened and a certain vessel coming down, like a great sheet having been bound and being dropped down by four edges upon the earth; ¹² in which were all kinds of four footed mammals and beasts and reptiles of the earth and birds of the heaven. ¹³ And there came a voice to him, Sacrifice and eat when you stand up Peter.
¹⁴ But Peter said, Not-so, Lord, because I have never eaten anything, common or unclean.
¹⁵ And a voice came to him again the second-time, What God has cleansed, you, do not make common. ¹⁶ But this happened three-times and again the vessel was received up into heaven.
¹⁷ Now as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might be. And behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood at the gate, ¹⁸ and having summoned them, they were inquiring if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, is lodged here.

¹ Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. ² And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were arguing with him, ³ saying, You entered to men having an uncircumcised state and ate together with them.
⁴ But Peter began and was expounding the matter to them afterwards, saying, ⁵ I was in the city of Joppa praying and I saw a vision while in a trance, a certain vessel coming down, like a great sheet being dropped down from heaven by the four edges, and it came to me. ⁶ Having stared into that sheet, I was considering, and I saw the four footed mammals of the earth and other beasts and reptiles and birds of the heaven.
⁷ Now I heard a voice saying to me, When you stand up Peter; sacrifice and eat.
⁸ But I said, Not-so, Lord, because anything common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.
⁹ But a voice answered me the second-time from heaven, What God has cleansed, you, do not make common. ¹⁰ Now this happened three-times and all were pulled up again into heaven. ¹¹ And behold, promptly three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me. ¹² But the Spirit said for me to go together with them, making no distinction. Now these six brethren also came together with me, and we entered into the man’s house. ¹³ And he reported to us how he had seen the messenger standing in his house and saying to him, Send men to Joppa and send for Simon, whose surname is Peter; ¹⁴ who will be speaking the words to you in which you will be saved, you and all your house. ¹⁵ Now while I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just-like upon us also in the beginning. ¹⁶ Now I was reminded of the declaration of the Lord, how he said, John indeed immersed in water, but you will be immersed in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ Therefore, if God gave to them the equal gift like he also did to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, now who was I, that I am able to forbid God? ¹⁸ But having heard these things, they were quiet and glorifying God, saying, Consequently, God has also given repentance to the Gentiles into life.

{40-41 AD. Antioch, Phoenicia, Cyprus, etc. The Good-news extended to all the Gentiles. Jan., 41 AD Claudius becomes Emperor.}

¹⁴ Symeon has described, just-as how God visited the nations first, to take out of them a people for his name. ¹⁵ And the words of the prophets agree together with this; just-as it has been written, ¹⁶ ‘I will turn back after these things, and I will build the tabernacle of David again, which has fallen. And I will build its ruins again. And I will straighten it, ¹⁷ that the rest of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom my name has been called, says the Lord, the one who is doing all these things,’

⁹ And a vision was seen by Paul in the night. There was a certain man, a Macedonian, standing, pleading with him and saying, When you have crossed over into Macedonia, help us!

²¹ And he said to me, Travel on, because I will be sending you forth to the Gentiles who are afar.

¹⁷ I will be liberating you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.

¹ Therefore what is the supremacy of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision? ² Much, according to every manner! For indeed, first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, being rich toward all who are calling upon him; ¹³ for everyone, ‘Whomever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ¹⁴ Therefore how will they call upon him in whom they have not believed? But how will they believe of whom they have not heard? But how will they hear without someone preaching? ¹⁵ But how will they preach, if they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, ‘How Beautiful are the feet of those who are proclaiming the good-news of peace and of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good things!’

⁹ and that the Gentiles are to glorify God on behalf of his mercy; as it has been written, ‘Because of this, I will profess you among the Gentiles and sing-praise to your name.’ ¹⁰ And again he says, ‘Gentiles be joyous with his people.’ ¹¹ And again, ‘Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.’ ¹² And again, Isaiah says, ‘There will be the root of Jesse and he who raised up to rule over the Gentiles; upon him the Gentiles will hope.’

¹² that you were separate from Christ at the time, having been alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and were godless in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who were previously from afar have become near to him in the blood of the Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made us both one and tore-down the middle wall of the fence, ¹⁵ having done-away-with the hostility in his flesh, which is the Law of commandments in decrees; in order that he might create in himself the two into one new man, thus making peace;

¹⁹ Therefore consequently, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone; ²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.

¹² having your good conduct seen among the Gentiles; in order that, in what they are speaking against you, as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, having eye-witnessed things from your good works.

¹⁵ And he built the walls of the house inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood. And he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

⁹ My beloved is like a roe or a young male-deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall. He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

¹² And those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of generations and generations and you will be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

¹⁷ For brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace and your overseers righteousness.

⁴ And they will build the old wastes. They will raise up the former desolations and they will repair the waste cities, the desolations of generations and generations.

¹² And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch. And he will grow up out of his place and he will build the temple of Jehovah, ¹³ even he will build the temple of Jehovah. And he will bear the glory and will sit and rule upon his throne. And he will be a priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace will be between them both. ¹⁴ And the crowns will be to Helem and to Tobijah and to Jedaiah and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.
¹⁵ And those who are far off will come and build in the temple of Jehovah. And you* will know that Jehovah of hosts has sent me to you*. And this will happen, if you* will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your* God.

¹⁸ But I also say to you, that you are ^{F} Peter and upon this, the rock, I will be building my congregation of believers, and the gates of Hades will not be prevailing against her.

²⁷ Now when they came and gathered the congregation together, they reported how-much God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

¹⁶ ‘I will turn back after these things, and I will build the tabernacle of David again, which has fallen. And I will build its ruins again. And I will straighten it,

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given to me, I have laid a foundation like a wise expert-builder, and another is building upon it. But let each one beware how he is building upon it. ¹¹ For no one is able to lay another foundation beside what is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² But if anyone is building on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,

¹² having a great and high wall, having twelve gates and twelve messengers upon the gates, and names have been written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. ¹³ Three gates were on the east and three gates were on the north, and three gates were on the south, and three gates were on the west. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he, speaking with me, was holding a measure, a golden reed, in order that he might measure the city and its gates and its wall. ¹⁶ And the four cornered city is laid, and the length is as the width and he measured the city with the reed in furlongs, twelve thousand and twelve furlongs, the length and the width and its height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, which is, of a messenger. ¹⁸ And the structure of its wall was jasper and the city was purest gold, similar to purest glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city have been adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁷ Jehovah did not set his love upon you*, nor choose you*, because you* were more in number than any people, for you* were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because Jehovah loves you*. And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your* fathers, Jehovah has brought you* out with a mighty hand and redeemed you* out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

⁴ so you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

³ Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe. ⁴ Your neck is like the tower of ivory. Your eyes, the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

⁷ This your stature is like to a palm tree and your breasts to its clusters. ⁸ I said, I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of the branches of it. Let your breasts be as clusters of the vine and the smell of your breath like apples,

¹⁰ And foreigners will build up your walls and their kings will minister to you. For in my wrath I killed* you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

³⁰ And the messenger said to her, Do not fear, Mary; for you have found favor with God.

¹ Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ; ² through whom we also have had our access to this grace in the faith in which we are standing, and we are boasting in hope of the glory of God. ³ But not only in this, but we are also boasting in our afflictions, knowing that affliction is working endurance; ⁴ and endurance, approved character, and an approved character, hope; ⁵ and hope does not shame one, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ⁶ For when we were still weak, according to the proper time, Christ died on behalf of the ungodly. ⁷ For scarcely will one die on behalf of a righteous man; for perhaps someone might even dare to die on behalf of the good man. ⁸ But God is establishing his own love toward us, in that when we were still sinners, Christ died on our behalf. ⁹ Therefore much more, having been now made righteous in his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God through him. ¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved in his life;

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his favor, in which he has favored us in the beloved,

⁸ The grace which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

¹⁶ But I was shown-mercy because of this, in order that Jesus Christ might show all his patience in me as foremost, for a pattern of those who are afterward about to believe on him for everlasting life.

¹⁶ And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all who are with you. And you are correct in regard to all this.

⁴ I made great works for me. I built houses for me. I planted vineyards for me.

⁶ Do not look upon me, because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me. They made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept.

¹ Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. ² And he dug it and gathered out the stones of it and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes and it brought out wild grapes.
³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I beseech you*, between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought out wild grapes?
⁵ And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down. ⁶ And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

²³ And it will happen in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver coins, will be for briers and thorns.

³³ Hear another parable: there was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard and placed a fence around it, and shoveled a winepress in it, and built a tower and rented it out to farmers, and went-abroad. ³⁴ Now when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his bondservants to the farmers, to receive his fruits. ³⁵ And then the farmers took his bondservants and whipped one, and killed one and stoned one. ³⁶ Again, he sent other bondservants, more-than the first, and they did to them likewise. ³⁷ But later he sent to them his son, saying, They will be revering my son. ³⁸ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir. Come-here. We should kill him, and we might hold-onto his inheritance. ³⁹ And having taken him, they cast him forth outside the vineyard, and killed him. ⁴⁰ Therefore, whenever the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those farmers?
⁴¹ They say to him, He will evilly destroy those evil men, and will be renting the vineyard to other farmers, who will be giving to him the fruits at their seasons.
⁴² Jesus says to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner; this has become from the Lord and it is marvelous in our eyes? ⁴³ Because of this, I am saying to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

¹ And he began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard and placed a fence around it and shoveled a winepress in it and built a tower, and rented it out to farmers and went-abroad.

⁹ Now he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and rented it to farmers, and went-abroad for a considerable time. ¹⁰ And in the harvest season, he sent a bondservant to the farmers, in order that they might give to him from the fruit of the vineyard, but the farmers whipped him and sent him away empty handed. ¹¹ And he sent yet a different bondservant, and they also whipped and dishonored him, and sent him away empty. ¹² And he sent yet a third, and they also traumatized him and cast him forth. ¹³ But the lord of the vineyard said, What should I do? I will be sending my beloved son; perchance seeing him, they will be revering him. ¹⁴ But when the farmers saw him, they were reasoning with themselves, saying, This is the heir. Come-here. We should kill him, in order that the inheritance may become ours. ¹⁵ And they cast him forth outside the vineyard, and killed him. Therefore, what will the lord of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will be giving the vineyard to others.
But having heard this, they said, Let it not happen!
¹⁷ But he looked at them and said, Therefore what is this that has been written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, this one has become the head of the corner'? ¹⁸ Everyone who falls upon that stone will be shattered, but upon whomever it falls, it will be smashing him.

²³ Keep your heart with all diligence, because out of it are the things of life.

²⁸ Therefore, take-heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God, which the Lord acquired through his own blood.

⁷ For none of us is living to himself, and none dies to himself. ⁸ For in both, if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord; therefore, in both, if we live or die, we are the Lord’s. ⁹ For Christ both died and rose up and lived for this, in order that he might have lordship over both the dead and the living.

²⁰ for you were bought with a price. Glorify God in your body and in your spirit which is God’s!

¹⁵ and he died on behalf of all, in order that those who are living should no longer live to themselves, but to the one who died and rose again on their behalf.

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting, or is it not also you, which is before our Lord Jesus Christ at his presence?

¹⁵ Meditate on these things; be diligent in them; in order that your progress may be apparent to all. ¹⁶ Take-heed to yourself and to the teaching. Abide in these things; for while practicing this, you will be saving both yourself and those who hear you.

¹⁷ The elders who are governing well, let them be deemed worthy of double honor, especially those who are laboring in the word and in teaching. ¹⁸ For the Scripture says, ‘You will not muzzle a threshing bull.’And, ‘The worker is worthy of his wages.’

³⁸ And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months. And she departed, she and her companions and wept for her virginity upon the mountains.

¹¹ And it happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

¹⁴ She will be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, will be brought to you.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you and you will glorify me.

⁷ Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed your flock, where you make it to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

¹³ The fig tree ripens her green figs and the vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one and come away. ¹⁴ O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see your countenance; let me hear your voice. Because sweet is your voice and your countenance is becoming.

⁷ Behold, it is the litter of Solomon. Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel. ⁸ They all handle the sword and are expert in war. Every man has his sword upon his thigh, because of fear in the night.
⁹ King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon. ¹⁰ He made the pillars of it from silver, the bottom of it from gold, the seat of it from purple, the midst of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.
¹¹ Go forth, O you* daughters of Zion and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother has crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

¹⁶ Awake, O north wind and come, you south, breathe upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his precious fruits.

⁹ What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so swear to us?
¹⁰ My beloved is white and ruddy, the chief among ten thousand. ¹¹ His head is the most fine gold. His locks are bushy, black as a raven. ¹² His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, washed with milk, fitly set. ¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices, banks of sweet herbs. His lips are lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. ¹⁴ His hands are rings of gold set with beryl. His body is ivory work overlaid with sapphires. ¹⁵ His legs are pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold. His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. ¹⁶ His mouth is most sweet. Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

² My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.

¹¹ I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded and the pomegranates were in flower.

¹¹ Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages. ¹² Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

²⁰ For where two or three have been gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many things as I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the earth.
Amen.

¹³ And if you ask anything in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father might be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask anything in my name, I will do that.

²¹ He who holds my commandments and is keeping them, that one is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my Father and I will love him and will be manifesting myself to him.
²² Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, what has happened that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?
²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will be keeping my word and my Father will love him, and we will be coming to him and we will be making our abode with him.

⁷ If you abide in me, and then my words should abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will happen for you.

²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, in order that your joy may be fulfilled.

¹⁷ Until the day breathes cool and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved and be like a roe or a young male-deer upon the mountains of spice.

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

¹² Therefore he said: A certain noble man, traveled into a far away region, to receive a kingdom for himself and to return.

²³ But I am troubled from the two ends, having the desire, that I should vacate and be together with Christ, but it is much better rather

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride are saying, Come. And he who hears, let him say, Come. And he who is thirsty, let him come. He who wills, let him take the water of life freely.

²⁰ He who is testifying of these things says, Yes, I am coming shortly. Amen.
Yes come, Lord Jesus.