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So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels-for then man goes to his eternal home, and mourners walk the streets.

For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.

O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.

Catch for us the foxes-the little foxes that ruin the vineyards-for our vineyards are in bloom.

All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of night.

My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.

I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.

Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.

We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.