Ezekiel 16:14

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh;

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act.

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is wholly oppression within herself.

“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

that no flesh should boast before God.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

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.

He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”

I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. The king Nebuchadnezzar your father, yes, the king, your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.