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5 “I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I gathered my myrrh with my spice. I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, and make you merry, O well-beloved.”
2 “I sleep, but my heart wakes. It is the voice of my well-beloved who knocks, saying, ‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is full of dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.’
3 “I have taken off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet. How shall I soil them?
4 “My well-beloved put in his hand by the opening, and my core was moved toward him.
5 “I rose up to open to my well-beloved, and my hands did drop down myrrh, and my fingers pure myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.
6 “I opened to my well-beloved, but my well-beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart failed when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him. I called him, but he did not answer me.
7 “The watchmen who were around the city found me. They struck me and wounded me. The watchmen of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my well-beloved, that you tell him that I am lovesick!”
9 “O the fairest among women! What is your well-beloved more than other well-beloved? What is your well-beloved more than another lover, that you so charge us?”
10 “My well-beloved is white and ruddy, chief among ten thousand.
11 “His head is as fine gold, his locks curled and black as a raven.
12 “His eyes are like doves upon the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fittingly set.
13 “His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers, and his lips like lilies dropping down pure myrrh.
14 “His hands are as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white ivory covered with sapphires.
15 “His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold, his face as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 “His mouth is as sweet things, and he is wholly delectable. This is my well-beloved, and this is my lover, O daughters of Jerusalem!”
17 “O fairest among women! Where has your well-beloved gone? Where has your well-beloved turned aside, so that we may seek him with you?”
6 “My well-beloved has gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens and gather lilies.
2 “I am my well-beloved’s. And my well-beloved is mine, who feeds among the lilies.”
3 “You, my love, are beautiful as Tirzah, as comely as Jerusalem, as terrible as an army with banners.
4 “Turn away your eyes from me, for they overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, which look down from Gilead.
5 “Your teeth are like a flock of sheep, which go up from the washing, from which each one brings out twins. And none is barren among them.
6 “Your temples are as a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.
7 “There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and virgins without number.
8 “But my dove is alone. My undefiled, she is the only daughter of her mother, and she is dear to her who bore her. The daughters have seen her and counted her blessed, as have the queens and the concubines, and they have praised her.
9 “Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, pure as the Sun, awesome as an army with banners!
10 “I went down to the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine budded, and if the pomegranates flourished.
11 “I knew nothing. My soul set me as the chariots of my noble people.
12 “Return! Return, O Shulamite, return! Return so that we may behold you!” “What shall you see in the Shulamite—the dance of two armies, as it were?”
7 “How beautiful are your feet with sandals, O prince’s daughter! The joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of a cunning workman’s hand.
2 “Your navel is as a round cup that does not lack liquor. Your belly is as a heap of wheat surrounded with lilies.
3 “Your two breasts are as two twin fawns of a gazelle.
4 “Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is as the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.
5 “Your head upon you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple. The king is tied in the rafters.
6 “How fair you are, and how pleasant you are, O my love, in pleasures!
7 “This, your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters.
8 “I said, ‘I will go up into the palm tree. I will take hold of her branches.’ Your breasts shall now be like the clusters of the vine, and the savor of your nose like apples,
9 “and the roof of your mouth like good wine, “which goes straight to my well-beloved and causes the lips of the ancient to speak.
10 “I am my well-beloved’s. And his desire is toward me.
11 “Come, my well-beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us remain in the villages.
12 “Let us get up early to the vines. Let us see if the vine flourishes, whether it has budded the small grapes, or where the pomegranates flourish. There I will give you my love.
13 “The mandrakes have given a smell. And in our gates are all sweet things, new and old. My well-beloved, I have kept them for you.”
8 “Oh that you were as my brother who sucked the breasts of my mother. I would find you outside. I would kiss you. Then they would not despise you.
2 “I will lead you and bring you into my mother’s house. There you shall teach me. I will make you drink spiced wine, new wine of the pomegranate.
3 “His left hand shall be under my head. And his right hand shall embrace me.
4 “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you neither stir up nor awaken my love until she pleases.”
5 “Who is this who comes up out of the wilderness, leaning upon her well-beloved? I raised you up under an apple tree. There your mother conceived you. There she conceived who bore you.”
6 “Set me as a seal on your heart, as a signet upon your arm. For love is strong as death. Jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its coals are fiery coals, a vehement flame.
7 “Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the rivers drown it. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, they would greatly despise it.”
8 “We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister when she shall be spoken for?
9 “If she is a wall, we will build a silver palace upon her. And if she is a door, we will keep her in with boards of cedar.”
10 “I am a wall. And my breasts are as towers. Then I was, in his eyes, as one who finds peace.
11 “Solomon had a vine in Baal Hamon. He gave the vineyard to keepers. Everyone brought forth a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit.
12 “My vineyard, which is mine, is before me. To you, O Solomon, belongs a thousand, and two hundred to those who keep its fruit.”
13 “O you who dwells in the gardens, the companions listen to your voice! Let me hear it!”
14 “O my well-beloved, flee away and be like the gazelle, or the young stag upon the mountains of spices.”
9 Now, as far as the ministry to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you.
2 For I know your readiness of mind, of which I boast to the Macedonians myself, saying that Achaia was prepared a year ago. And your zeal has incited many.
3 Now, I have sent the brothers (lest our boasting over you should be in vain in this matter), that you (as I have said) be ready.
4 Or else perhaps the Macedonians might come with me and find you unprepared, so that we (and not you) should be ashamed by my constant boasting.
5 Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers to come to you beforehand, and to finish your previously-promised blessing, that it might be ready and be received as a blessing (not with greed).
6 But remember this: whoever sows sparingly, shall also reap sparingly. And whoever sows liberally, shall also reap liberally.
7 As everyone purposes in his heart, so let him give (not grudgingly or of necessity). For God loves a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace to abound toward you. So that you always - having all sufficiency in all things - may abound in every good work,
9 As it is written, “He has scattered abroad and has given to the poor. His benevolence remains forever.”
10 Also, He Who supplies seed to the sower will likewise provide bread for food and multiply your seed and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
11 that you may be enriched in every way unto all simplicity, which causes thanksgiving to God through us.
12 For the ministry of this service not only supplies the necessities of the Saints, but also abundantly causes many to give thanks to God,
13 who, by the trials of this ministry, praise God for your voluntary submission to the Gospel of Christ and for your liberal sharing with them and to all.
14 And in their prayer for you, they long after you greatly, for the abundant grace of God in you.
15 Therefore, thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.
51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of Your compassions, put away my iniquities.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my iniquities; and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against You, against You only, have I sinned and done evil in Your sight; that You may be just when You speak and pure when You judge.
5 Behold, I was born in iniquity; and in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, You love truth to the core. Therefore, You have taught me wisdom in my core.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness; so that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your Face from my sins; and put away all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence; and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation; and establish me with Your free Spirit.
13 Then I shall teach Your ways to the wicked; and sinners shall be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing joyfully of Your righteousness.
15 Open my lips, O LORD, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You desire no sacrifice, though I would give it. You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit. A contrite and a broken heart, O God, You will not despise.
18 Be favorable to Zion for Your good pleasure. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shall You accept the sacrifices of righteousness, the burnt offering and oblation. Then shall they offer calves upon Your altar. To him who excels: A Psalm of David to give instruction, when Doeg the Edomite came and showed Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
24 Make no friendship with an angry man, nor go with the furious man,
25 lest you learn his ways and receive destruction to your soul.
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