Song of Songs 1-2
Christian Standard Bible
1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.(A)
Woman
2 Oh, that he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your caresses[a] are more delightful than wine.(B)
3 The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating;(C)
your name is perfume poured out.(D)
No wonder young women[b] adore you.
4 Take me with you(E)—let’s hurry.
Oh, that the king would bring[c] me to his chambers.
Young Women
We will rejoice and be glad in you;
we will celebrate your caresses more than wine.
Woman
It is only right that they adore you.
5 Daughters of Jerusalem,(F)
I am dark like the tents of Kedar,(G)
yet lovely(H) like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not stare at me because I am dark,
for the sun has gazed on me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;(I)
they made me take care of the vineyards.(J)
I have not taken care of my own vineyard.
7 Tell me, you whom I love:(K)
Where do you pasture your sheep?(L)
Where do you let them rest at noon?(M)
Why should I be like one who veils herself[d]
beside the flocks of your companions?(N)
Man
8 [e]If you do not know,
most beautiful of women,(O)
follow[f] the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
near the shepherds’ tents.
9 I compare you, my darling,(P)
to a[g] mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.(Q)
10 Your cheeks are beautiful with jewelry,(R)
your neck with its necklace.
11 We will make gold jewelry for you,
accented with silver.
Woman
12 While the king is on his couch,[h]
my perfume[i] releases its fragrance.(S)
13 The one I love is a sachet of myrrh to me,(T)
spending the night between my breasts.
14 The one I love is a cluster of henna blossoms to me,(U)
in the vineyards of En-gedi.(V)
Man
15 How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves.(W)
Woman
16 How handsome you are, my love.(X)
How delightful!
Our bed is verdant;
17 the beams of our house are cedars,
and our rafters are cypresses.[j]
2 I am a wildflower[k] of Sharon,
a lily[l] of the valleys.(Y)
Man
2 Like a lily among thorns,
so is my darling among the young women.
Woman
3 Like an apricot[m] tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my love among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade,
and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banquet hall,[n](Z)
and he looked on me with love.[o](AA)
5 Sustain me with raisins;
refresh me with apricots,[p]
for I am lovesick.(AB)
6 May his left hand be under my head,
and his right arm embrace me.(AC)
7 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and the wild does of the field,
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.[q](AD)
8 Listen! My love is approaching.
Look! Here he comes,
leaping over the mountains,(AE)
bounding over the hills.
9 My love is like a gazelle
or a young stag.(AF)
See, he is standing behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
peering through the lattice.
10 My love calls to me:
Man
Arise,(AG) my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.
11 For now the winter is past;
the rain has ended and gone away.
12 The blossoms appear in the countryside.
The time of singing[r] has come,
and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land.(AH)
13 The fig tree ripens its figs;(AI)
the blossoming vines give off their fragrance.(AJ)
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.
14 My dove,(AK) in the clefts of the rock,(AL)
in the crevices of the cliff,
let me see your face,[s]
let me hear your voice;(AM)
for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely.(AN)
Woman
15 [t]Catch the foxes for us(AO)—
the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—
for our vineyards are in bloom.(AP)
Woman
16 My love is mine and I am his;(AQ)
he feeds among the lilies.
17 Until the day breaks[u]
and the shadows flee,
turn around, my love, and be like a gazelle
or a young stag(AR) on the divided mountains.[v](AS)
Footnotes
- 1:2 Or acts of love
- 1:3 Or wonder virgins
- 1:4 Or The king has brought
- 1:7 Or who wanders
- 1:8 Some understand the young women to be the speakers in this verse.
- 1:8 Lit go out for yourself into
- 1:9 Lit my
- 1:12 Or is at his table
- 1:12 Lit nard
- 1:17 Or firs, or pines
- 2:1 Traditionally rose
- 2:1 Or lotus
- 2:3 Or apple
- 2:4 Lit the house of wine
- 2:4 Or and his banner over me is love
- 2:5 Or apples
- 2:7 Lit until it pleases
- 2:12 Or pruning
- 2:14 Or form
- 2:15 The speaker could be the woman, the man, or both.
- 2:17 Lit breathes
- 2:17 Or the Bether mountains, or the mountains of spices; Hb obscure
Romans 11:11-36
Christian Standard Bible
Israel’s Rejection Not Final
11 I ask, then, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles(A) to make Israel jealous. 12 Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!(B)
13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles,(C) I magnify my ministry, 14 if I might somehow make my own people[a](D) jealous and save some of them.(E) 15 For if their rejection brings reconciliation(F) to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?(G) 16 Now if the firstfruits are holy,(H) so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Now if some of the branches were broken off,(I) and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them(J) and have come to share in the rich root[b] of the cultivated olive tree, 18 do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.(K) 19 Then you will say,(L) “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith.(M) Do not be arrogant, but beware,[c](N) 21 because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. 22 Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness(O) toward you—if you remain in his kindness.(P) Otherwise you too will be cut off.(Q) 23 And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief,(R) will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 I don’t want you to be ignorant(S) of this mystery,(T) brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited:(U) A partial hardening has come upon Israel(V) until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.(W) 26 And in this way all[d] Israel will be saved, as it is written,
The Deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this will be my covenant with them[e](X)
when I take away their sins.[f](Y)
28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage,(Z) but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,(AA) 29 since God’s gracious gifts and calling(AB) are irrevocable.[g](AC) 30 As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience, 31 so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now[h] receive mercy. 32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience(AD) so that he may have mercy on all.
A Hymn of Praise
33 Oh, the depth of the riches(AE)
and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!(AF)
How unsearchable his judgments(AG)
and untraceable his ways!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord?(AH)
Or who has been his counselor?
35 And who has ever given to God,
that he should be repaid?[i](AI)
36 For from him and through him
and to him are all things.(AJ)
To him be the glory forever. Amen.
Psalm 99
Christian Standard Bible
Psalm 99
The King Is Holy
1 The Lord reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
He is enthroned between the cherubim.(A)
Let the earth quake.(B)
2 The Lord is great in Zion;
he is exalted above all the peoples.(C)
3 Let them praise your great
and awe-inspiring name.(D)
He is holy.(E)
4 The mighty King loves justice.
You have established fairness;
you have administered justice
and righteousness in Jacob.(F)
5 Exalt the Lord our God;
bow in worship at his footstool.(G)
He is holy.(H)
6 Moses and Aaron were among his priests;(I)
Samuel also was among those calling on his name.
They called to the Lord and he answered them.(J)
7 He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud;(K)
they kept his decrees and the statutes he gave them.
8 Lord our God, you answered them.
You were a forgiving God to them,(L)
but an avenger of their sinful actions.(M)
9 Exalt the Lord our God;
bow in worship at his holy mountain,
for the Lord our God is holy.(N)
Proverbs 21:1-3
Christian Standard Bible
21 A king’s heart is like channeled water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever he chooses.(A)
2 All a person’s ways seem right to him,
but the Lord weighs hearts.(B)
3 Doing what is righteous and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.(C)
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