Study Desk

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you should find my beloved, tell him that I am sick for love.

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me; your hair is like a flock of goats which come up from the mount of Gilead.

And your palate is like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down in the mouth of my beloved and makes me move my lips and my teeth.

The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have kept for you, O my beloved.

WHO shall give you to me for my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother? When I should find you in the street, I would kiss you; yea, I should not be despised.

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; desire is cruel as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire and flame.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the rivers carry it away; and yet, if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, people would mock him.

We have a little sister whose breasts have not developed; what shall we do for our sister in the day when they shall seek her hand?

Solomon had a vineyard, and its fruits were abundant; he let out the vineyard to keepers; a man offered for its fruits a thousand pieces of silver.

My vineyard which is mine is before me; a thousand pieces of silver are yours, O Solomon, and two hundred for the keepers of the fruit.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken, I have reared and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Learn to do good; seek justice, do good to the oppressed, plead for the fatherless, plead for the widows.

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

How is the faithful city become a harlot! For once it was full of justice; and righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

For they shall be ashamed of the idols which they have desired, and they shall be confounded by the witchcraft which they have chosen.

For they shall be like an oak whose leaves have fallen, and like a garden that has no water.

And many people shall go and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are self-satisfied as in the olden days, and they practice augury like the Philistines, and they have reared many alien children.

Enter into the rocks, and hide in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

For the day of the LORD shall be against every one that is proud and lofty, and against every one that is lifted up, that he shall be brought low;