Song of Solomon 7:1 - Isaiah 1:16
English Standard Version
7 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O (A)noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like (B)jewels,
the work of (C)a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with (D)lilies.
3 (E)Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
4 Your (F)neck is like an ivory tower.
Your (G)eyes are pools in (H)Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of (I)Lebanon,
which looks toward (J)Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like (K)Carmel,
and your (L)flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 (M)How beautiful and (N)pleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights![a]
7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like (O)clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your (P)mouth[b] like the best wine.
She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.[c]
The Bride Gives Her Love
11 (S)Come, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages;[d]
12 let us go out early to the vineyards
(T)and see whether the vines have budded,
whether (U)the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 (V)The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
(W)new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
Longing for Her Beloved
8 Oh that you were like a brother to me
who nursed at my mother's breasts!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
and none would despise me.
2 I would lead you and (X)bring you
into the house of my mother—
she who used to teach me.
I would give you (Y)spiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranate.
3 (Z)His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me!
4 I (AA)adjure you, O (AB)daughters of Jerusalem,
(AC)that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
5 (AD)Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.
6 Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as (AE)a seal upon your arm,
for (AF)love is strong as death,
(AG)jealousy[e] is fierce as the grave.[f]
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very (AH)flame of the Lord.
7 Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his (AI)house,
he[g] would be utterly despised.
Final Advice
Others
8 We have a little sister,
and she (AJ)has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day when she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build on her a battlement of silver,
but if she is a door,
we will enclose her with (AK)boards of cedar.
She
10 (AL)I was a wall,
and my (AM)breasts were like towers;
then I was in his eyes
as one who finds[h] peace.
11 Solomon had (AN)a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
he (AO)let out the vineyard to (AP)keepers;
each one was to bring for its fruit (AQ)a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
and (AR)the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
He
13 (AS)O you who dwell in the gardens,
with (AT)companions listening for your voice;
(AU)let me hear it.
She
14 (AV)Make haste, my beloved,
and be (AW)like a gazelle
or a young stag
on (AX)the mountains of spices.
1 The (AY)vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem (AZ)in the days of (BA)Uzziah, (BB)Jotham, (BC)Ahaz, and (BD)Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
The Wickedness of Judah
2 (BE)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O (BF)earth;
for the Lord has spoken:
“Children[i] (BG)have I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox (BH)knows its owner,
and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does (BI)not know,
my people do not understand.”
4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
(BJ)offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have (BK)despised (BL)the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly (BM)estranged.
5 Why will you still be (BN)struck down?
Why will you (BO)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6 (BP)From the sole of the foot even to the head,
there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
and raw wounds;
they are (BQ)not pressed out or bound up
or softened with oil.
7 (BR)Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8 And (BS)the daughter of Zion is left
like a (BT)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
9 (BU)If the Lord of hosts
had not left us (BV)a few survivors,
we should have been like (BW)Sodom,
and become like (BX)Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of (BY)(BZ)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching[j] of our God,
you people of (CA)Gomorrah!
11 (CB)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to (CC)appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
(CD)New moon and Sabbath and the (CE)calling of convocations—
I cannot endure (CF)iniquity and (CG)solemn assembly.
14 Your (CH)new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you (CI)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(CJ)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(CK)your hands are full of blood.
16 (CL)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(CM)cease to do evil,
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 7:6 Or among delights
- Song of Solomon 7:9 Hebrew palate
- Song of Solomon 7:9 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak, or gliding over the lips of those who sleep
- Song of Solomon 7:11 Or among the henna plants
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Or ardor
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Hebrew as Sheol
- Song of Solomon 8:7 Or it
- Song of Solomon 8:10 Or brings out
- Isaiah 1:2 Or Sons; also verse 4
- Isaiah 1:10 Or law
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