Song of Songs Cross References - LXX2012

¹ The Song of songs, which is Solomon's. ² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your breasts are better than wine. ³ And the smell of your ointments is better than all spices: your name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love you. ⁴ They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you. ⁵ I am black, but beautiful, you⌃ daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. ⁶ Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother's sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard. ⁷ Tell me, [you] whom my soul loves, where you tend your flock, where you cause [them] to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of your companions. ⁸ If you know not yourself, you fair one among women, go you forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed your kids by the shepherd's tents. ⁹ I have likened you, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharao. ¹⁰ How are your cheeks beautiful as [those] of a dove, your neck as chains! ¹¹ We will make you figures of gold with studs of silver. ¹² So long as the king was at table, my spikenard gave forth its smell. ¹³ My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; he shall lie between my breasts. ¹⁴ My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of Engaddi. ¹⁵ Behold, you are fair, my companion; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves. ¹⁶ Behold, you are fair, my kinsman, yes, beautiful, overshadowing our bed. ¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.

³² And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.

¹ (15) A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tabernacle? and who shall dwell in your holy mountain?

¹ Now I will sing to [my] beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. [My] beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.

²⁶ And Isaac his father said to him, Draw near to me, and kiss me, son. ²⁷ And he drew near and kissed him, and smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of an abundant field, which the Lord has blessed.

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and cried with a loud voice and wept.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brethren, and wept on them; and after these things his brethren spoke to him.

¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you⌃ should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

⁷ Submit yourself to the Lord, and supplicate him: fret not yourself because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.

³ who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously; ⁴ to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear. ⁵ They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

⁴ They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.

⁴ Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.

¹⁰ How beautiful are your breasts, my sister, my spouse! how much more beautiful are your breasts than wine, and the smell of your garments than all spices!

¹⁶ His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

⁶ How beautiful are you, and how sweet are you, [my] love!

⁹ and your throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.

¹² Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, [if] the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts.

¹ I would that you, O my kinsman, were he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found you without, I would kiss you; yes, they should not despise me. ² I would take you, I would bring you into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make you to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

⁶ And the Lord of hosts shall make [a feast] for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

¹ You⌃ that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go [and] buy; and eat [and drink] wine and fat without money or price. ² Therefore do you⌃ value at the price of money, and [give] your labor for that which will not satisfy? listen to me, and you⌃ shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.

²³ Do you also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling calamus, ²⁴ and of cassia five hundred shekels of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. ²⁵ And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed ointment [tempered] by the are of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. ²⁶ And you shall anoint with it the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the tabernacle of witness, ²⁷ and all its furniture, and the candlestick and all its furniture, and the altar of incense, ²⁸ and the altar of whole burnt offerings and all its furniture, and the table and all its furniture, and the laver.

¹² And Moses said to the Lord, Behold! you say to me, Lead on this people; but you have not showed me whom you will send with me, but you have said to me, I know you above all, and you have favor with me.

¹⁹ And [God] said, I will pass by before you with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before you; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.

⁵ And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood near him there, and called by the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, pitiful and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true, ⁷ and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity, and unrighteousness, and sins; and he will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

⁷ The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause. ⁸ Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth.

¹⁵ let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein you did afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil. ¹⁶ And look upon your servants, and upon your works; and guide their children.

² Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord.

⁹ The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.

¹ What advantage has a man? for who knows [what is] good for a man in his life, [during] the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

⁶ Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?

⁵ I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

¹³ His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.

⁸ My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the [only] one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yes, and the concubines, and they will praise her.

⁶ For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel: for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him. ⁷ His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: [it shall be] upon the throne of David, and [upon] his kingdom, to establish it, and to support [it] with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

³ that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth. ⁶ In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

⁴ And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to you on the harp, O God, my God.

⁹ and live to the end, [so] that he should not see corruption.

⁵ They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

⁴ And the king's honor loves judgment; you have prepared equity, you have wrought judgment and justice in Jacob. ⁵ Exalt you⌃ the Lord our God, and worship [at] his footstool; for he is holy. ⁶ Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he heard them. ⁷ He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the ordinances which he gave them. ⁸ O Lord our God, you heard them; O God, you became propitious to them, though you did take vengeance on all their devices. ⁹ Exalt you⌃ the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.

¹ (104) [A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you have clothed yourself with praise and honor: ² who do robe yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

⁴ To the upright light has sprung up in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous.

² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him; and let the children of Sion exult in their king.

² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your breasts are better than wine. ³ And the smell of your ointments is better than all spices: your name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love you.

³ As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat. ⁴ Bring me into the wine house; set love before me. ⁵ Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I [am] wounded with love.

⁴ [It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

⁸ Death has prevailed and swallowed [men] up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of [his] people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

²⁵ By the Lord shall they be justified, and in God shall all the seed of the children of Israel be glorified.

⁷ I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.

³ for [there is] a voice of [men] crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.

⁴ When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man striking [another] on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.

¹⁴ Rejoice, O daughter of Sion; cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; rejoice and delight yourself with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion; proclaim [it] aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, the King is coming to you, just, and a Saviour; he is meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal.

⁹ Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire.

⁵ The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand.

⁴ For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.

⁷ I have charged you, you⌃ daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that you⌃ do not rouse or wake [my] love, until he please.

¹⁴ [You are] my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: show me your face, and cause me to hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is beautiful.

⁵ I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that you⌃ rouse not nor awake [my] love, until he please.

¹⁰ He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

³ Your lips are as a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is your cheek without your veil.

⁸ I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you⌃ should find my kinsman, what are you⌃ to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

⁴ Turn away your eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: your hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad.

⁴ I have charged you, you⌃ daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that you⌃ stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.

² We brought a report as [of] a child before him; [he is] as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty.

⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nabaeoth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on my altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified.

¹⁰ and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

¹⁴ And your name went forth among the nations for your beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, [and] in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.

¹⁹ And they went both of them until they came to Bethleem: and it came to pass, when they arrived at Bethleem, that all the city rang with them, and they said, Is this Noemin? ²⁰ And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call you⌃ me Noemin, whereas the Lord has humbled me and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

³⁰ And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon; he let his vineyard to keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand [pieces] of silver. ¹² My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon [shall have] a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.

²¹ For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

⁶ For even your brethren and the house of your father, even these have dealt treacherously with you; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of you; trust not you in them, though they shall speak fair [words] to you.

⁸ HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.

⁶ For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies.

¹⁶ And he said, I am seeking my brethren; tell me where they feed [their flocks].

²⁰ And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: you⌃ have [indeed] wrought all this iniquity; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart. ²¹ And turn not aside after the [gods] that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver [you], because they are nothing.

¹ (19) For the end, a Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

¹ (24) A Psalm for David on the first day of the week. A Psalm for David on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that dwell in it. ² He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers.

¹ (29) A Psalm of David [on the occasion] of the solemn assembly of the Tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, you⌃ sons of God, bring to the Lord young rams; bring to the Lord glory and honor.

¹ (81) For the end, a Psalm for Asaph, concerning the wine presses. Rejoice you⌃ in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

¹ (117) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, all you⌃ nations: praise him, all you⌃ peoples.

³ As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

¹⁶ My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds [his flock] among the lilies.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he listened not to me. ² I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the marketplaces, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. ³ The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. [I said], Have you⌃ seen him whom my soul loves? ⁴ [It was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

¹⁰ My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.

³ You are fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as [armies] set in array.

¹³ You that dwell in the gardens, the companions listen to your voice: make me hear [it].

²⁰ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

⁹ which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks you very early in the morning, O God, for your commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, you⌃ that dwell upon the earth.

¹¹ He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

¹² Then Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which you⌃ have heard.

⁴ And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

³ You has proved mine heart; you have visited [me] by night; you have tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: [I am purposed] that my mouth shall not speak [amiss].

¹¹ The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.

³⁴ watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

¹⁵ Behold, you are fair, my companion; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves.

¹⁰ My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.

¹ Behold, you are fair, my companion; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves, beside your veil: your hair is as flocks of goats, that have appeared from Galaad.

⁷ You are all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in you.

⁹ What is your kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, O you beautiful among women? what is your kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, that you have so charged us?

¹ My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed [his flock] in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

⁴ Turn away your eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: your hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad. ⁵ Your teeth are as flocks of shorn [sheep], that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: your lips are as a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely. ⁶ Your cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, [being seen] without your veil. ⁷ There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number. ⁸ My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the [only] one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yes, and the concubines, and they will praise her. ⁹ Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as [armies] set in array? ¹⁰ I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, [if] the pomegranates blossomed.

¹ Your steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of [your] thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman. ² Your navel is [as] a turned bowl, not lacking liquor; your belly is [as] a heap of wheat set about with lilies. ³ Your two breasts are as two twin fawns. ⁴ Your neck is as an ivory tower; your eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: your nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus. ⁵ Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries. ⁶ How beautiful are you, and how sweet are you, [my] love! ⁷ This is your greatness in your delights: you were made like a palm tree, and your breasts to cluster. ⁸ I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall your breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose of apples; ⁹ and your throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth. ¹⁰ I am my kinsman's, and his desire is toward me. ¹¹ Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. ¹² Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, [if] the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts. ¹³ The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors [are] all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept [them] for you.

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord, Stand you⌃ in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and you⌃ shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in them].

²⁸ And the goings forth of Solomon's horsemen [was] also out of Egypt, and the king's merchants [were] of Thecue; and they received them out of Thecue at a price.

¹⁴ And Solomon collected chariots and horsemen: and he had fourteen hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he set them in the cities of chariots, and the people [were] with the king in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem [to be] as stones, and cedars in Judea as sycamores in the plain for multitude. ¹⁶ And Solomon imported horses from Egypt, and the charge of the king's merchants for going [was as follows], and they traded, ¹⁷ and went and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred [pieces] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty [pieces] of silver: and so they brought for all the kings of the Chettites, and for the kings of Syria by their means.

² As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

¹³ The fig tree has put forth its young figs, the vines put forth the tender grape, they yield a smell: arise, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yes, come.

² I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, [saying], Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

¹ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, [which are] a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.

²² And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden ear-rings, each of a drachm weight, and he [put] two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold.

⁴⁷ And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are you? tell me; and she said, I am daughter of Bathuel the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him; and I put on her the ear-rings, and the bracelets on her hands.

⁴² And Pharao took his ring off his hand, and put it on the hand of Joseph, and put on him a robe of fine linen, and put a necklace of gold about his neck.

⁵⁰ And we have brought our gift to the Lord, [every] man who has found an article of gold, whether an armlet, or a chain, or a ring, or a bracelet, or a clasp for hair, to make atonement for us before the Lord.

⁹ For you shall receive for your head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round your neck.

⁹ My sister, [my] spouse, you have ravished my heart; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

¹⁸ and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents, ¹⁹ and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces, ²⁰ and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand, ²¹ and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders, and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses, and those made of fine linen, and the purple [ones], and the scarlet [ones], and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.

¹¹ and decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a necklace on your neck. ¹² And I put a pendant on your nostril, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head. ¹³ So you were adorned with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: you did eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and did become extremely beautiful.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

⁹ If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.

¹ (46) For the end, for the sons of Core; a Psalm concerning secret things. God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

¹³ Your shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard: ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices: ¹⁵ a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus. ¹⁶ Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; and blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.

⁵ Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

¹¹ And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts.

⁸ Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth.

⁶ Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

¹ Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yes, brethren, drink abundantly.

³ His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. ⁴ I have charged you, you⌃ daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that you⌃ stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.

⁶² and Aeochioza, and Naphlazon, and the cities of Sadon, and Ancades; seven cities, and their villages.

¹³ My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; he shall lie between my breasts.

¹³ Your shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard: ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

⁸ If you know not yourself, you fair one among women, go you forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed your kids by the shepherd's tents.

¹² His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

¹⁴ Yet you⌃ said, Therefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you has forsaken, and [yet] she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.

² Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

³ His work is [worthy of] thanksgiving and honor: and his righteousness endures for ever and ever.

⁷ Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.

¹⁰ My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads. ¹¹ His head is [as] very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven. ¹² His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools. ¹³ His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh. ¹⁴ His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone. ¹⁵ His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars. ¹⁶ His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

¹⁷ For if he has anything good, and if he has anything fair, the young [men shall have] corn, and [there shall be] fragrant wine to the virgins.

⁹ So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

⁸ And send me from Libanus cedar wood, and wood of juniper, and pine; for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber in Libanus: and, behold, your servants shall go with my servants, ⁹ to prepare timber for me in abundance: for the house which I am building [must be] great and glorious.

¹⁶ And the windows were latticed, [giving] light round about to the three [stories], so as to look through: and the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and [so was] the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window [shutters] folded back in three parts for one to look through.

³ ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, [with] triple porticos fronting one another.