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His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires.

His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

She My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.

I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

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

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

She I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.

And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.

and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the Lord , and from the splendor of his majesty.

And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord , and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord , and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.

For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: "You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule";

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord , defying his glorious presence.

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

The Lord has taken his place to contend; he stands to judge peoples.

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

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