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Day 205 of 365

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Song of Songs 6-8

Song of Songs Chapter 6

¹Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved ²My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies. ³I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies. Lover ⁴You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners. ⁵Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead. ⁶Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved among them. ⁷Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. ⁸There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number. ⁹My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her. ¹⁰Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners? ¹¹I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower. ¹²Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. Friends ¹³Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

1: Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved

2: My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

3: I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies. Lover

4: You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

5: Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

6: Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved among them.

7: Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

8: There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

9: My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

10: Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

11: I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

12: Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. Friends

13: Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

Song of Songs Chapter 7

¹How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. ²Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. ³Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe. ⁴Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. ⁵Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses. ⁶How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! ⁷This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit. ⁸I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples. ⁹Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. Beloved ¹⁰I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me. ¹¹Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages. ¹²Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love. ¹³The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

1: How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

2: Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

3: Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.

4: Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

5: Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

6: How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

7: This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

8: I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.

9: Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. Beloved

10: I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

11: Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages.

12: Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

13: The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Song of Songs Chapter 8

¹Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me. ²I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. ³His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me. ⁴I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends ⁵Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you. ⁶Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. ⁷Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Brothers ⁸We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for? ⁹If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved ¹⁰I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace. ¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. ¹²My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover ¹³You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! Beloved ¹⁴Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

1: Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

2: I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

3: His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.

4: I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

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

6: Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.

7: Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Brothers

8: We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

9: If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved

10: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.

11: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

12: My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover

13: You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! Beloved

14: Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

Wisdom 1-3

Wisdom Chapter 1

¹Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart, ²because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test, and is manifested to those who trust him. ³for crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish; ⁴because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin. ⁵For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding, and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in. ⁶For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue. ⁷Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said. ⁸Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen; neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by. ⁹For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out, and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction; ¹⁰because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden. ¹¹Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul. ¹²Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands; ¹³because God didn’t make death, neither does he delight when the living perish. ¹⁴For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth; ¹⁵for righteousness is immortal, ¹⁶but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death; deeming him a friend they pined away. They made a covenant with him, because they are worthy to belong with him.

1: Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart,

2: because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test, and is manifested to those who trust him.

3: for crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish;

4: because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin.

5: For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding, and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in.

6: For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

7: Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said.

8: Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen; neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by.

9: For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out, and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;

10: because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.

11: Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul.

12: Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;

13: because God didn’t make death, neither does he delight when the living perish.

14: For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth;

15: for righteousness is immortal,

16: but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death; deeming him a friend they pined away. They made a covenant with him, because they are worthy to belong with him.

Wisdom Chapter 2

¹For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning, “Our life is short and sorrowful. There is no healing when a man comes to his end, and no one was ever known who was released from Hades. ²Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we will be as though we had never been, because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our heart, ³which being extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes, and the spirit will be dispersed as thin air. ⁴Our name will be forgotten in time. No one will remember our works. Our life will pass away as the traces of a cloud, and will be scattered as is a mist, when it is chased by the rays of the sun, and overcome by its heat. ⁵For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and our end doesn’t retreat, because it is securely sealed, and no one turns it back. ⁶“Come therefore and let’s enjoy the good things that exist. Let’s use the creation earnestly as in our youth. ⁷Let’s fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes, and let no spring flower pass us by. ⁸Let’s crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. ⁹Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry. Let’s leave tokens of mirth everywhere, because this is our portion, and this is our lot. ¹⁰Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor regard the gray hair of the old man. ¹¹But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless. ¹²But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training. ¹³He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. ¹⁴He became to us a reproof of our thoughts. ¹⁵He is grievous to us even to look at, because his life is unlike other men’s, and his paths are strange. ¹⁶We were regarded by him as something worthless, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father. ¹⁷Let’s see if his words are true. Let’s test what will happen at the end of his life. ¹⁸For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries. ¹⁹Let’s test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience. ²⁰Let’s condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be protected, according to his words.” ²¹Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness blinded them, ²²and they didn’t know the mysteries of God, neither did they hope for wages of holiness, nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls. ²³Because God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own everlastingness; ²⁴but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it.

1: For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning, “Our life is short and sorrowful. There is no healing when a man comes to his end, and no one was ever known who was released from Hades.

2: Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we will be as though we had never been, because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our heart,

3: which being extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes, and the spirit will be dispersed as thin air.

4: Our name will be forgotten in time. No one will remember our works. Our life will pass away as the traces of a cloud, and will be scattered as is a mist, when it is chased by the rays of the sun, and overcome by its heat.

5: For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and our end doesn’t retreat, because it is securely sealed, and no one turns it back.

6: “Come therefore and let’s enjoy the good things that exist. Let’s use the creation earnestly as in our youth.

7: Let’s fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes, and let no spring flower pass us by.

8: Let’s crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.

9: Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry. Let’s leave tokens of mirth everywhere, because this is our portion, and this is our lot.

10: Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor regard the gray hair of the old man.

11: But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless.

12: But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training.

13: He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord.

14: He became to us a reproof of our thoughts.

15: He is grievous to us even to look at, because his life is unlike other men’s, and his paths are strange.

16: We were regarded by him as something worthless, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father.

17: Let’s see if his words are true. Let’s test what will happen at the end of his life.

18: For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries.

19: Let’s test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience.

20: Let’s condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be protected, according to his words.”

21: Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness blinded them,

22: and they didn’t know the mysteries of God, neither did they hope for wages of holiness, nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls.

23: Because God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own everlastingness;

24: but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it.

Wisdom Chapter 3

¹But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them. ²In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died. Their departure was considered a disaster, ³and their travel away from us ruin, but they are in peace. ⁴For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality. ⁵Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good; because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself. ⁶He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering. ⁷In the time of their visitation they will shine. They will run back and forth like sparks among stubble. ⁸They will judge nations and have dominion over peoples. The Lord will reign over them forever. ⁹Those who trust him will understand truth. The faithful will live with him in love, because grace and mercy are with his chosen ones. ¹⁰But the ungodly will be punished even as their reasoning deserves, those who neglected righteousness and revolted from the Lord; ¹¹for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable. Their hope is void and their toils unprofitable. Their works are useless. ¹²Their wives are foolish and their children are wicked. ¹³Their descendants are cursed. For the barren woman who is undefiled is happy, she who has not conceived in transgression. She will have fruit when God examines souls. ¹⁴So is the eunuch which has done no lawless deed with his hands, nor imagined wicked things against the Lord; for a precious gift will be given to him for his faithfulness, and a delightful inheritance in the Lord’s sanctuary. ¹⁵For good labors have fruit of great renown. The root of understanding can’t fail. ¹⁶But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful union will vanish away. ¹⁷For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honor. ¹⁸If they die young, they will have no hope, nor consolation in the day of judgment. ¹⁹For the end of an unrighteous generation is always grievous.

1: But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them.

2: In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died. Their departure was considered a disaster,

3: and their travel away from us ruin, but they are in peace.

4: For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality.

5: Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good; because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself.

6: He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering.

7: In the time of their visitation they will shine. They will run back and forth like sparks among stubble.

8: They will judge nations and have dominion over peoples. The Lord will reign over them forever.

9: Those who trust him will understand truth. The faithful will live with him in love, because grace and mercy are with his chosen ones.

10: But the ungodly will be punished even as their reasoning deserves, those who neglected righteousness and revolted from the Lord;

11: for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable. Their hope is void and their toils unprofitable. Their works are useless.

12: Their wives are foolish and their children are wicked.

13: Their descendants are cursed. For the barren woman who is undefiled is happy, she who has not conceived in transgression. She will have fruit when God examines souls.

14: So is the eunuch which has done no lawless deed with his hands, nor imagined wicked things against the Lord; for a precious gift will be given to him for his faithfulness, and a delightful inheritance in the Lord’s sanctuary.

15: For good labors have fruit of great renown. The root of understanding can’t fail.

16: But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful union will vanish away.

17: For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honor.

18: If they die young, they will have no hope, nor consolation in the day of judgment.

19: For the end of an unrighteous generation is always grievous.

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