Song of Songs 7

New International Version

7 ^[a]How beautiful your sandaled feet,
    O prince’s^(A) daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
    the work of an artist’s hands.
²Your navel is a rounded goblet
    that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
    encircled by lilies.
³Your breasts^(B) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle.
⁴Your neck is like an ivory tower.^(C)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon^(D)
    by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon^(E)
    looking toward Damascus.
⁵Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.^(F)
    Your hair is like royal tapestry;
    the king is held captive by its tresses.
⁶How beautiful^(G) you are and how pleasing,
    my love, with your delights!^(H)
⁷Your stature is like that of the palm,
    and your breasts^(I) like clusters of fruit.
⁸I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
    I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
    the fragrance of your breath like apples,^(J)
⁹    and your mouth like the best wine.

She

May the wine go straight to my beloved,^(K)
    flowing gently over lips and teeth.^[b]
¹⁰I belong to my beloved,
    and his desire^(L) is for me.^(M)
¹¹Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,
    let us spend the night in the villages.^[c]
¹²Let us go early to the vineyards^(N)
    to see if the vines have budded,^(O)
if their blossoms^(P) have opened,
    and if the pomegranates^(Q) are in bloom^(R)—
    there I will give you my love.
¹³The mandrakes^(S) send out their fragrance,
    and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
    that I have stored up for you, my beloved.^(T)

Footnotes

Song of Songs 7:1 In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.
Song of Songs 7:9 Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew lips of sleepers
Song of Songs 7:11 Or the henna bushes

Luke 10:25-42

New International Version

The Parable of the Good Samaritan^(A)

²⁵On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”^(B)

²⁶“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

²⁷He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’^[a];^(C) and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b]”^(D)

²⁸“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”^(E)

²⁹But he wanted to justify himself,^(F) so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

³⁰In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. ³¹A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.^(G) ³²So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. ³³But a Samaritan,^(H) as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. ³⁴He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. ³⁵The next day he took out two denarii^[c] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’

³⁶“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

³⁷The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

At the Home of Martha and Mary

³⁸As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha^(I) opened her home to him. ³⁹She had a sister called Mary,^(J) who sat at the Lord’s feet^(K) listening to what he said. ⁴⁰But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care^(L) that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

⁴¹“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried^(M) and upset about many things, ⁴²but few things are needed—or indeed only one.^[d]^(N) Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

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Footnotes

Luke 10:27 Deut. 6:5
Luke 10:27 Lev. 19:18
Luke 10:35 A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see Matt. 20:2).
Luke 10:42 Some manuscripts but only one thing is needed