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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Defends the Truth of His Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GAL.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GAL.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GAL.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it be</span></span><span class="content"> yet in vain. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GAL.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">doeth he it</span></span><span class="content"> by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GAL.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">, In thee shall all nations be blessed. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GAL.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GAL.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> evident: for, The just shall live by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GAL.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GAL.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> every one that hangeth on a tree: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GAL.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GAL.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GAL.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it be</span></span><span class="content"> but a man's covenant, yet </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if it be</span></span><span class="content"> confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And this I say, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For if the inheritance </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> of the law, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> no more of promise: but God gave </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> to Abraham by promise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GAL.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Wherefore then </span><span class="add"><span class="content">serveth</span></span><span class="content"> the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and it was</span></span><span class="content"> ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GAL.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now a mediator is not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">a mediator</span></span><span class="content"> of one, but God is one. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GAL.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GAL.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GAL.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GAL.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to bring us</span></span><span class="content"> unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GAL.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GAL.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GAL.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GAL.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GAL.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And if ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I am come into my garden, 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 v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have drunk my wine with my milk:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">Eat, O friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I sleep, but my heart waketh:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">It is</span></span><span class="content"> the voice of my beloved that knocketh, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">Open to me, my sister, my love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">My dove, my undefiled:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">For my head is filled with dew,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> my locks with the drops of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have put off my coat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">How shall I put it on?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">I have washed my feet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">How shall I defile them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My beloved put in his hand by the hole </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of the door</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="content">And my bowels were moved for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I rose up to open to my beloved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">And my hands dropped </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> myrrh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">And my fingers </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> sweet smelling myrrh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">Upon the handles of the lock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I opened to my beloved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">But my beloved had withdrawn himself, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> was gone:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">My soul failed when he spake:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">I sought him, but I could not find him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">I called him, but he gave me no answer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The watchmen that went about the city found me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">They smote me, they wounded me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">If ye find my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">That ye tell him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">that I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> sick of love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy beloved more than </span><span class="add"><span class="content">another</span></span><span class="content"> beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">O thou fairest among women?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">What </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy beloved more than </span><span class="add"><span class="content">another</span></span><span class="content"> beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">That thou dost so charge us?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My beloved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> white and ruddy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="content">The chiefest among ten thousand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His head </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is as</span></span><span class="content"> the most fine gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">His locks </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> bushy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> black as a raven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His eyes </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the eyes</span></span><span class="content"> of doves by the rivers of waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">Washed with milk, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> fitly set.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His cheeks </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> as a bed of spices, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> sweet flowers:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">His lips </span><span class="add"><span class="content">like</span></span><span class="content"> lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His hands </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are as</span></span><span class="content"> gold rings set with the beryl:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">His belly </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is as</span></span><span class="content"> bright ivory overlaid </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> sapphires.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">His legs </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are as</span></span><span class="content"> pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">His countenance </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">His mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> most sweet:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">Yea, he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> altogether lovely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my beloved, and this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">O daughters of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whither is thy beloved gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="content">O thou fairest among women?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="content">Whither is thy beloved turned aside?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="content">That we may seek him with thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My beloved is gone down into his garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="content">To the beds of spices,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="content">To feed in the gardens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="content">And to gather lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> my beloved's, and my beloved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.6.3"><span class="content">He feedeth among the lilies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"><span class="content">Comely as Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"><span class="content">Terrible as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">an army</span></span><span class="content"> with banners.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Turn away thine eyes from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="content">For they have overcome me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><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 v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="content">That appear from Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Thy teeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> as a flock of sheep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="content">Which go up from the washing,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="content">Whereof every one beareth twins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> not one barren among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As a piece of a pomegranate </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> thy temples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.6.7"><span class="content">Within thy locks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.6.8"><span class="content">And virgins without number.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My dove, my undefiled is </span><span class="add"><span class="content">but</span></span><span class="content"> one;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">She </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="add"><span class="content">only</span></span><span class="content"> one of her mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">She </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the choice </span><span class="add"><span class="content">one</span></span><span class="content"> of her that bare her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">The daughters saw her, and blessed her;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yea</span></span><span class="content">, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> she </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> looketh forth as the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"><span class="content">Fair as the moon, clear as the sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> terrible as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">an army</span></span><span class="content"> with banners?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I went down into the garden of nuts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="content">To see the fruits of the valley,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> to see whether the vine flourished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the pomegranates budded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Or ever I was aware,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.6.12"><span class="content">My soul made me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">like</span></span><span class="content"> the chariots of Amminadib.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Return, return, O Shulamite;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="content">Return, return, that we may look upon thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="content">What will ye see in the Shulamite?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="content">As it were the company of two armies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How beautiful are thy feet with shoes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">O prince's daughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">The joints of thy thighs </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like jewels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">The work of the hands of a cunning workman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Thy navel </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is like</span></span><span class="content"> a round goblet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> wanteth not liquor:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">Thy belly </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is like</span></span><span class="content"> an heap of wheat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">Set about with lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="label">3</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 v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That are</span></span><span class="content"> twins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Thy neck </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as a tower of ivory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">Thine eyes </span><span class="add"><span class="content">like</span></span><span class="content"> the fishpools in Heshbon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">By the gate of Bathrabbim:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">Thy nose </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as the tower of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">Which looketh toward Damascus.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Thine head upon thee </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> like Carmel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">And the hair of thine head like purple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">The king </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> held in the galleries.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">How fair and how pleasant art thou,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="content">O love, for delights!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This thy stature is like to a palm tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="content">And thy breasts to clusters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of grapes</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I said, I will go up to the palm tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">I will take hold of the boughs thereof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">Now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">And the smell of thy nose like apples;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">For my beloved, that goeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">down</span></span><span class="content"> sweetly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">Causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> my beloved's,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="content">And his desire </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> toward me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Come, my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="content">Let us go forth into the field;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="content">Let us lodge in the villages.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let us get up early to the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">Let us see if the vine flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Whether</span></span><span class="content"> the tender grape appear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the pomegranates bud forth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">There will I give thee my loves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The mandrakes give a smell,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">And at our gates </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> all manner of pleasant </span><span class="add"><span class="content">fruits</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">New and old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O that thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">wert</span></span><span class="content"> as my brother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">That sucked the breasts of my mother!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">Yea, I should not be despised.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I would lead thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> bring thee into my mother's house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Who</span></span><span class="content"> would instruct me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">Of the juice of my pomegranate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His left hand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">should be</span></span><span class="content"> under my head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.8.3"><span class="content">And his right hand should embrace me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"><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 v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"><span class="content">Until he please.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> this that cometh up from the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">Leaning upon her beloved?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">I raised thee up under the apple tree:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">There thy mother brought thee forth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">There she brought thee forth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> bare thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Set me as a seal upon thine heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">As a seal upon thine arm:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">For love </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> strong as death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">Jealousy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> cruel as the grave:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">The coals thereof </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> coals of fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which hath</span></span><span class="content"> a most vehement flame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Many waters cannot quench love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">Neither can the floods drown it:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">It would utterly be contemned.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We have a little sister,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="content">And she hath no breasts:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="content">What shall we do for our sister</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="content">In the day when she shall be spoken for?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If she </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> a wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="content">We will build upon her a palace of silver:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="content">And if she </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> a door,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="content">We will inclose her with boards of cedar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> a wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="content">And my breasts like towers:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="content">Then was I in his eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="content">As one that found favour.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="content">He let out the vineyard unto keepers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="content">Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">pieces</span></span><span class="content"> of silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">My vineyard, which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> before me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"><span class="content">Thou, O Solomon, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">must have</span></span><span class="content"> a thousand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"><span class="content">And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Thou that dwellest in the gardens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"><span class="content">The companions hearken to thy voice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"><span class="content">Cause me to hear </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Make haste, my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="content">And be thou like to a roe</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="content">Or to a young hart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="content">Upon the mountains of spices.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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