Song of Solomon 2:17

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:

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.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.

spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

and I will give him the morning star.

You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.

and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

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

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.