Study Desk

So go eat your food and enjoy it; drink your wine and be happy, because that is what God wants you to do.

Enjoy life with the wife you love. Enjoy all the useless days of this useless life God has given you here on earth, because it is all you have. So enjoy the work you do here on earth.

At that time your arms will shake and your legs will become weak. Your teeth will fall out so you cannot chew, and your eyes will not see clearly.

So be careful, my son, about other teachings. People are always writing books, and too much study will make you tired.

Now, everything has been heard, so I give my final advice: Honor God and obey his commands, because this is all people must do.

Don't look at how dark I am, at how dark the sun has made me. My brothers were angry with me and made me tend the vineyards, so I haven't tended my own vineyard!

You are so handsome, my lover, and so pleasant! Our bed is the grass.

The watchmen found me as they patrolled the city, so I asked, "Have you seen the one I love?"

Your love is so sweet, my sister, my bride. Your love is better than wine, and your perfume smells better than any spice.

There may be sixty queens and eighty slave women and so many girls you cannot count them,

Come back, come back, woman of Shulam. Come back, come back, so we may look at you! Why do you want to look at the woman of Shulam as you would at the dance of two armies?

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I was to him, as one who brings happiness.

So the Lord God All-Powerful, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "You, my enemies, will not cause me any more trouble. I will pay you back for what you did.

At that time a man will grab one of his brothers from his own family and say, "You have a coat, so you will be our leader. These ruins will be under your control."

So the Lord will put sores on the heads of those women in Jerusalem, and he will make them lose their hair.

So my people will be captured and taken away, because they don't really know me. All the great people will die of hunger, and the common people will die of thirst.

So the place of the dead wants more and more people, and it opens wide its mouth. Jerusalem's important people and common people will go down into it, with their happy and noisy ones.

So the common people and the great people will be brought down; those who are proud will be humbled.

They say, "Let God hurry; let him do his work soon so we may see it. Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel happen soon so that we will know what it is."

So the Lord has become very angry with his people, and he has raised his hand to punish them. Even the mountains are frightened. Dead bodies lie in the streets like garbage. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.