2 Samuel 12:4
Hebrew Text— 2 Samuel 12:4A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to prepare for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.