Song of Solomon 5:2

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

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.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

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.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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.”

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

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.

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

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.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

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

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.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.

They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

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.”

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

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

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

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

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

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

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.

Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.

Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’ ” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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.

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

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.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

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

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.

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

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

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

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

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

His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

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

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

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

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

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?