[Be a Gentleman] Authenticity

Do Not Be Anxious About Anything

Resting in God’s Presence

Help Your Man Overcome Pornography

Sent With Purpose

Perfectly Imperfect | Discovering Grace When Perfect Isn’t Possible, a 7-Day Devotional by Jacques McNeil

Seeing With Your Ears

Women of the New Testament

Acts 19:23-41 | Living for Christ in a Confused World

The Cultivation of Consistency

The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The song of songs, which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> Solomon's.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">For thy love </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better than wine.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of the savour of thy good ointments</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">Thy name </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is as</span></span><span class="content"> ointment poured forth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">Therefore do the virgins love thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Draw me, we will run after thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">The king hath brought me into his chambers:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">We will be glad and rejoice in thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">We will remember thy love more than wine:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">The upright love thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> black, but comely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">O ye daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">As the tents of Kedar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">As the curtains of Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Look not upon me, because I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> black,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">Because the sun hath looked upon me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">My mother's children were angry with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">They made me the keeper of the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> mine own vineyard have I not kept.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">Where thou feedest, where thou makest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy flock</span></span><span class="content"> to rest at noon:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">For why should I be as one that turneth aside</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">By the flocks of thy companions?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If thou know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">O thou fairest among women,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">And feed thy kids</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">Beside the shepherds' tents.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have compared thee, O my love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">To a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Thy cheeks are comely with rows </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of jewels</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">Thy neck with chains </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of gold</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We will make thee borders of gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">With studs of silver.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While the King </span><span class="add"><span class="content">sitteth</span></span><span class="content"> at his table,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">My spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A bundle of myrrh </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my wellbeloved unto me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My beloved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> unto me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> a cluster of camphire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="content">In the vineyards of Engedi.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair, my love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">hast</span></span><span class="content"> doves' eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair, my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">Yea, pleasant:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">Also our bed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> green.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The beams of our house </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> cedar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> our rafters of fir.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> the rose of Sharon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.2.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the lily of the valleys.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As the lily among thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.2.2"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my love among the daughters.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my beloved among the sons.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">I sat down under his shadow with great delight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">And his fruit </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> sweet to my taste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He brought me to the banqueting house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.2.4"><span class="content">And his banner over me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Stay me with flagons,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="content">Comfort me with apples:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="content">For I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> sick of love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">His left hand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> under my head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.2.6"><span class="content">And his right hand doth embrace me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">By the roes, and by the hinds of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">That ye stir not up, nor awake </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">Till he please.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The voice of my beloved!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">Behold, he cometh</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">Leaping upon the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">Skipping upon the hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My beloved is like a roe</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">Or a young hart:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">Behold, he standeth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">Behind our wall,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">He looketh forth at the windows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">Shewing himself through the lattice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My beloved spake, and said unto me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="content">Rise up, my love, my fair one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="content">And come away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For, lo, the winter is past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.2.11"><span class="content">The rain is over </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> gone;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The flowers appear on the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">The time of the singing </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of birds</span></span><span class="content"> is come,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">And the voice of the turtle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">Is heard in our land;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">And the vines </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> the tender grape</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">Give a </span><span class="add"><span class="content">good</span></span><span class="content"> smell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">Arise, my love, my fair one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">and come away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">O my dove, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that art</span></span><span class="content"> in the clefts of the rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">In the secret </span><span class="add"><span class="content">places</span></span><span class="content"> of the stairs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">Let me see thy countenance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">Let me hear thy voice;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">For sweet </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">And thy countenance </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> comely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Take us the foxes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">The little foxes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">That spoil the vines:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">For our vines </span><span class="add"><span class="content">have</span></span><span class="content"> tender grapes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">My beloved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine, and I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> his:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.2.16"><span class="content">He feedeth among the lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Until the day break,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">And the shadows flee away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">Upon the mountains of Bether.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.3.1"><span class="content">I sought him, but I found him not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will rise now, and go about the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">In the streets, and in the broad ways</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">I will seek him whom my soul loveth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">I sought him, but I found him not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The watchmen that go about the city found me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">To whom I said</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="content">Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">It was</span></span><span class="content"> but a little that I passed from them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">But I found him whom my soul loveth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">I held him, and would not let him go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">Until I had brought him into my mother's house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">And into the chamber of her that conceived me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">By the roes, and by the hinds of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">That ye stir not up, nor awake </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">Till he please.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> this that cometh out of the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">Like pillars of smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">With all powders of the merchant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Behold his bed, which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> Solomon's;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="content">Threescore valiant men </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> about it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="content">Of the valiant of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They all hold swords,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Being</span></span><span class="content"> expert in war:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">Every man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">hath</span></span><span class="content"> his sword upon his thigh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">Because of fear in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">King Solomon made himself a chariot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.3.9"><span class="content">Of the wood of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He made the pillars thereof </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of</span></span><span class="content"> silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">The bottom thereof </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of</span></span><span class="content"> gold, the covering of it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of</span></span><span class="content"> purple,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">The midst thereof being paved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">For the daughters of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">And behold king Solomon</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">In the day of his espousals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">And in the day of the gladness of his heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair, my love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> fair;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">hast</span></span><span class="content"> doves' eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Within thy locks:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Thy hair </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as a flock of goats,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">That appear from mount Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Thy teeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like a flock </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of sheep that are even</span></span><span class="content"> shorn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">Which came up from the washing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">Whereof every one bear twins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">And none </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> barren among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Thy lips </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like a thread of scarlet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">And thy speech </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> comely:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">Thy temples </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like a piece of a pomegranate</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">Within thy locks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Thy neck </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> like the tower of David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">Builded for an armoury,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">Whereon there hang a thousand bucklers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">All shields of mighty men.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Thy two breasts </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like two young roes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">That are twins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">Which feed among the lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Until the day break,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">And the shadows flee away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">I will get me to the mountain of myrrh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">And to the hill of frankincense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> all fair, my love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There is</span></span><span class="content"> no spot in thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Come with me from Lebanon, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> spouse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">With me from Lebanon:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">Look from the top of Amana,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">From the top of Shenir and Hermon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">From the lions' dens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">From the mountains of the leopards.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> spouse;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">With one chain of thy neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">How fair is thy love, my sister, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> spouse!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">How much better is thy love than wine!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">And the smell of thine ointments than all spices!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Thy lips, O </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> spouse, drop </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> the honeycomb:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">Honey and milk </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> under thy tongue;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">And the smell of thy garments </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> like the smell of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A garden inclosed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my sister, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> spouse;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="content">A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Thy plants </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> an orchard of pomegranates,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">With pleasant fruits;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">Camphire, with spikenard,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Spikenard and saffron;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">Calamus and cinnamon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">With all trees of frankincense;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A fountain of gardens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="content">A well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Awake, O north wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">And come, thou south;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">Blow upon my garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> the spices thereof may flow out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">Let my beloved come into his garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">And eat his pleasant fruits.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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