22:008:001 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked
the breasts of my
mother!
when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;
yea,
I should not be despised.
22:008:002 I would lead thee, and bring thee into
my mother’s house, who
would
instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced
wine
of
the juice of my pomegranate.
22:008:003 His left hand should be under my head,
and his right hand
should
embrace me.
22:008:004 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
that ye stir not up,
nor
awake my love, until he please.
22:008:005 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,
leaning upon
her
beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree:
there thy
mother
brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth
that
bare
thee.
22:008:006 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a
seal upon thine arm:
for
love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the
coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most
vehement
flame.
22:008:007 Many waters cannot quench love, neither
can the floods drown
it:
if a man would give all the substance of his house
for
love,
it would utterly be contemned.
22:008:008 We have a little sister, and she hath no
breasts: what shall
we
do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken
for?
22:008:009 If she be a wall, we will build upon her
a palace of silver:
and
if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of
cedar.
22:008:010 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers:
then was I in his
eyes
as one that found favour.
22:008:011 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he
let out the vineyard
unto
keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring
a
thousand
pieces of silver.
22:008:012 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:
thou, O Solomon,
must
have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof
two
hundred.
22:008:013 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the
companions hearken to
thy
voice: cause me to hear it.
22:008:014 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like
to a roe or to a
young
hart upon the mountains of spices.
Book 23 Isaiah
23:001:001 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which
he saw concerning
Judah
and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
and
Hezekiah,
kings of Judah.
23:001:002 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth:
for the lord hath
spoken,
I have nourished and brought up children, and they
have
rebelled against me.
23:001:003 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his
master’s crib: but
Israel
doth not know, my people doth not consider.


