Song of Solomon 2:1

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,

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

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

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

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

Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

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

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.

It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

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

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

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies.

The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.