Song of Solomon 2:4

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

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

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

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

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.

Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

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

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

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.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

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

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

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

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

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

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

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

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.

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.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

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’?”

I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

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.

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

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

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.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.