Song of Solomon 1:16

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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

My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,

You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

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

Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner. Blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.

About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.

The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.

Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

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

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.