Song of Solomon 7:2

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

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.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

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.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

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.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

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

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

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.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”