Song of Solomon 2:13

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.

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

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

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.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

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

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.

“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

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

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages.

I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

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

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.

Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

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.

Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

“Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?