Song of Solomon 7 - Isaiah 1

Jubilee Bible 2000

7 ¶ How beautiful are thy feet in thy shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of an excellent workman.

² Thy navel is like a round goblet, which does not lack liquor; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

³ Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

⁴ Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim; thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

⁵ Thine head upon thee is like scarlet, and the hair of thine head like the purple of the king hung in the galleries.

⁶ How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

⁷ This, thy stature is like unto the palm tree, and thy breasts to the clusters.

⁸ I said, I will climb up the palm tree, I will take hold of the clusters thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples;

⁹ and thy palate like the best wine that goes into my beloved sweetly and causes the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

¹⁰ ¶ I am my beloved’s, and with me he has his contentment.

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 if the vines flourish, whether the tender flowers appear, if the pomegranates bud forth; there I will give thee my loves.

¹³ The mandrakes have given their fragrance, and at our gates are all manner of sweet fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

8 ¶ O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; and I should not be despised.

² I would lead thee and bring thee into my mother’s house, that thou would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

³ His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

⁴ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye not awake nor stir up love until he pleases.

⁵ ¶ Who is she that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I woke thee up under the apple tree; there thy mother had birth pains; there she had pains that brought thee into the light.

⁶ Set me as a seal upon thine heart as a sign upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is hard as Sheol; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame.

⁷ The many waters cannot quench love, neither can the rivers drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for this love, it would certainly be despised.

⁸ ¶ We have a little sister, and she still has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

⁹ If she is a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver; and if she is a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

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

¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; for its fruit each one was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

¹² My vineyard, which is mine, is before me; the thousand pieces shall be thine, O Solomon, and two hundred for those that keep the fruit.

¹³ ¶ Thou, she that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice; cause me to hear it.

¹⁴ Run, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

1 ¶ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

² ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD speaks, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding.

⁴ O sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, generation of evildoers, corrupt sons! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they have turned back.

⁵ Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

⁷ Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

⁹ Except the LORD of the hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

¹⁰ ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye princes of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? shall the LORD say. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats.

¹² When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; the incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot stand them; iniquity and the solemn meeting.

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; likewise, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ ¶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; restore unto the oppressed; hear the fatherless in right judgment; protect the widow.

¹⁸ Then come, shall the LORD say, and we shall be even; if your sins were as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow; if they were red like crimson, they shall become as wool.

¹⁹ If ye are willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

²¹ ¶ How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

²² Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

²³ Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loves bribes and follows after rewards; they do not hear the fatherless in judgment, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.

²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of the hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries and avenge myself of my enemies;

²⁵ and I will turn my hand upon thee and according to pureness purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin;

²⁶ and I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counsellors as at the beginning; afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

²⁷ Zion shall be ransomed with judgment and her converts with righteousness.

²⁸ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those that forsook the LORD shall be consumed.

²⁹ For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen.

³⁰ For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf falls and as a garden that has no water.

³¹ And the strong idol shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and no one shall be able to quench them.