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His cheeks are like a bed of spices, a raised bed of aromatic herbs. His lips are like lilies dropping flowing myrrh.

His hands are like rings of gold filled with jewels; His body an ivory plate overlaid with sapphires.

His legs are like pillars of marble founded on bases of fine gold; His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

His mouth is most sweet, and He is altogether lovely. This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

My Beloved has gone down to His garden, to the terraces of spices, to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.

I am my Beloved's, and His desire is toward me.

His left hand would be under my head, and His right hand embracing me.

Many waters cannot quench love, nor will the rivers overflow it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, they surely would despise him.

I was a wall, and my breasts like towers; then I was in His eyes as one finding peace.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not understood.

And the strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark; and they shall burn both together; and no one shall quench them .

And many people shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the mount of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach from His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion the Law will go forth, and the Word of Jehovahfrom Jerusalem.

And his land is filled with silver and gold. There is no end of his treasures. And his land is full of horses; his chariots also do not have an end.

And his land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from fear of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty.

And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, for dread of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth quake.

In that day a man shall throw his silver, and his golden idols which they made for him to worship to the hole of the burrower and to bats;

to go into the crevices of the rocks, and into the clefts of the cliffs, from the dread of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth quake.

Cease yourself from man, whose breath is in his nostril, for in what is he to be esteemed?

And the people shall be crushed, man against man, and a man on his neighbor. The boy will be insolent against the elder, and the despised against the honorable.