Song of Solomon 4:1

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

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.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

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

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

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.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

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.”

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

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,

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

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

Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?

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

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

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

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

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’?”

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

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

The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

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.

You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care,” says Yahweh; “that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won’t be room enough for them.

“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.

Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

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

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

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 neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.