Study Desk

I am more boorish than anyone, I lack human discernment;

for if I have too much, I might deny you and say, "Who is Adonai ?" And if I am poor, I might steal and thus profane the name of my God.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the things I worked for and which demonstrated how wise I am under the sun. This too is pointless.

the situation in which a solitary individual without a companion, with neither son nor brother, keeps on working endlessly but never has enough wealth. "For whom" [he should ask], "am I working so hard and denying myself pleasure?" This too is truly pointless, a sorry business.

[She] I am dark tan but beautiful, you daughters of Yerushalayim, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Shlomo.

I am but a rose from the Sharon, just a lily in the valleys.

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

My darling is mine, and I am his, as he pastures his flock among the lilies.

[He] My sister, my bride, I have entered my garden; I am gathering my myrrh and my spices; I am eating my honeycomb along with my honey; I am drinking my wine as well as my milk. [Chorus] Eat, friends, and drink, until you are drunk with love!

[She] I am asleep, but my heart is awake. Listen! I hear my darling knocking! [He] Open for me, my sister, my love, my dove, my flawless one! For my head is wet with dew, my hair with the moisture of the night.

I charge you, daughters of Yerushalayim, that if you find the man I love, what are you to tell him? That I am sick with love.

[She] I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; so in his view I am like one who brings peace.

Then I said, "Woe to me! I [too] am doomed! — because I, a man with unclean lips, living among a people with unclean lips, have seen with my own eyes the King, Adonai -Tzva'ot!"

I am sending him against a hypocritical nation, ordering him to march against a people who enrage me, to take the spoil and the plunder and trample them down like mud in the street.

"See! God is my salvation. I am confident and unafraid; for Yah Adonai is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation!"

This is why my insides are racked with pain; I am seized by pangs, like a woman in labor; wrenched by what I hear, aghast at what I see.

My people, who have been threshed, grain trodden down on my threshing-floor: I am telling you what I have heard from Adonai -Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el.

From the farthest part of the earth we have heard them sing, "Glory to the Righteous One!" But, I say, I'm wasting away, I am wasting away! Woe to me! Traitors betray! Oh, how the traitors betray and betray!

therefore here is what Adonai Elohim says: "Look, I am laying in Tziyon a tested stone, a costly cornerstone, a firm foundation-stone; he who trusts will not rush here and there.

No inhabitant will say, "I am ill"; the people living there will be forgiven their sin.