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His mouth is sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved; this is my friend, O young women of Jerusalem.

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the garden bed of the spice, to pasture his flock and to gather lilies in the garden.

I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

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

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

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he entrusted his vineyard to the keepers; people paid a thousand silver pieces for its fruit.

And the strong man shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench them."

many peoples shall come. And they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob, and may he teach us part of his ways, and let us walk in his paths." For instruction shall go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty.

and they will enter into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the ground from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty when he rises to terrify the earth.

to enter into the crevices of the rocks and into the clefts of the crags from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

And the people will be oppressed by each other and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.

Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: "You have a cloak; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!"

He will lift up his voice on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me the leader of the people!"

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.

Woe to the wicked! It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him.

Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge the peoples.

Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses!

Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!