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Song of Songs 7 - Isaiah 1
New International Version
Song of Songs 7 - Isaiah 1
New International Version
7 [a]How beautiful your sandaled feet,
O prince’s(A) daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
the work of an artist’s hands.
2 Your navel is a rounded goblet
that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
encircled by lilies.
3 Your breasts(B) are like two fawns,
like twin fawns of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.(C)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon(D)
by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon(E)
looking toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.(F)
Your hair is like royal tapestry;
the king is held captive by its tresses.
6 How beautiful(G) you are and how pleasing,
my love, with your delights!(H)
7 Your stature is like that of the palm,
and your breasts(I) like clusters of fruit.
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like apples,(J)
9 and your mouth like the best wine.
She
May the wine go straight to my beloved,(K)
flowing gently over lips and teeth.[b]
10 I belong to my beloved,
and his desire(L) is for me.(M)
11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,
let us spend the night in the villages.[c]
12 Let us go early to the vineyards(N)
to see if the vines have budded,(O)
if their blossoms(P) have opened,
and if the pomegranates(Q) are in bloom(R)—
there I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes(S) send out their fragrance,
and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
that I have stored up for you, my beloved.(T)
8 If only you were to me like a brother,
who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!
Then, if I found you outside,
I would kiss you,
and no one would despise me.
2 I would lead you
and bring you to my mother’s house(U)—
she who has taught me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the nectar of my pomegranates.
3 His left arm is under my head
and his right arm embraces me.(V)
4 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.(W)
Friends
5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness(X)
leaning on her beloved?
She
Under the apple tree I roused you;
there your mother conceived(Y) you,
there she who was in labor gave you birth.
6 Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love(Z) is as strong as death,
its jealousy[d](AA) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.[e]
7 Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of one’s house for love,
it[f] would be utterly scorned.(AB)
Friends
8 We have a little sister,
and her breasts are not yet grown.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
She
10 I am a wall,
and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
like one bringing contentment.
11 Solomon had a vineyard(AC) in Baal Hamon;
he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
a thousand shekels[g](AD) of silver.
12 But my own vineyard(AE) is mine to give;
the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
and two hundred[h] are for those who tend its fruit.
He
13 You who dwell in the gardens
with friends in attendance,
let me hear your voice!
She
14 Come away, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle(AF)
or like a young stag(AG)
on the spice-laden mountains.(AH)
1 The vision(AI) concerning Judah and Jerusalem(AJ) that Isaiah son of Amoz saw(AK) during the reigns of Uzziah,(AL) Jotham,(AM) Ahaz(AN) and Hezekiah,(AO) kings of Judah.
A Rebellious Nation
2 Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!(AP)
For the Lord has spoken:(AQ)
“I reared children(AR) and brought them up,
but they have rebelled(AS) against me.
3 The ox knows(AT) its master,
the donkey its owner’s manger,(AU)
but Israel does not know,(AV)
my people do not understand.(AW)”
4 Woe to the sinful nation,
a people whose guilt is great,(AX)
a brood of evildoers,(AY)
children given to corruption!(AZ)
They have forsaken(BA) the Lord;
they have spurned the Holy One(BB) of Israel
and turned their backs(BC) on him.
5 Why should you be beaten(BD) anymore?
Why do you persist(BE) in rebellion?(BF)
Your whole head is injured,
your whole heart(BG) afflicted.(BH)
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head(BI)
there is no soundness(BJ)—
only wounds and welts(BK)
and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged(BL)
or soothed with olive oil.(BM)
7 Your country is desolate,(BN)
your cities burned with fire;(BO)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(BP)
right before you,
laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(BQ)
8 Daughter Zion(BR) is left(BS)
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(BT) in a cucumber field,
like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us some survivors,(BU)
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.(BV)
10 Hear the word of the Lord,(BW)
you rulers of Sodom;(BX)
listen to the instruction(BY) of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!(BZ)
11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
of rams and the fat of fattened animals;(CA)
I have no pleasure(CB)
in the blood of bulls(CC) and lambs and goats.(CD)
12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you,(CE)
this trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!(CF)
Your incense(CG) is detestable(CH) to me.
New Moons,(CI) Sabbaths and convocations(CJ)—
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon(CK) feasts and your appointed festivals(CL)
I hate with all my being.(CM)
They have become a burden to me;(CN)
I am weary(CO) of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands(CP) in prayer,
I hide(CQ) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
I am not listening.(CR)
16 Wash(CU) and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(CV)
stop doing wrong.(CW)
17 Learn to do right;(CX) seek justice.(CY)
Defend the oppressed.[i](CZ)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(DA)
plead the case of the widow.(DB)
18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”(DC)
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;(DD)
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.(DE)
19 If you are willing and obedient,(DF)
you will eat the good things of the land;(DG)
20 but if you resist and rebel,(DH)
you will be devoured by the sword.”(DI)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(DJ)
21 See how the faithful city
has become a prostitute!(DK)
She once was full of justice;
righteousness(DL) used to dwell in her—
but now murderers!(DM)
22 Your silver has become dross,(DN)
your choice wine is diluted with water.
23 Your rulers are rebels,(DO)
partners with thieves;(DP)
they all love bribes(DQ)
and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
the widow’s case does not come before them.(DR)
24 Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
the Mighty One(DS) of Israel, declares:
“Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes
and avenge(DT) myself on my enemies.(DU)
25 I will turn my hand against you;[j](DV)
I will thoroughly purge(DW) away your dross(DX)
and remove all your impurities.(DY)
26 I will restore your leaders as in days of old,(DZ)
your rulers as at the beginning.
Afterward you will be called(EA)
the City of Righteousness,(EB)
the Faithful City.(EC)”
27 Zion will be delivered with justice,
her penitent(ED) ones with righteousness.(EE)
28 But rebels and sinners(EF) will both be broken,
and those who forsake(EG) the Lord will perish.(EH)
29 “You will be ashamed(EI) because of the sacred oaks(EJ)
in which you have delighted;
you will be disgraced because of the gardens(EK)
that you have chosen.
30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves,(EL)
like a garden without water.
31 The mighty man will become tinder
and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
with no one to quench the fire.(EM)”
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 7:1 In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.
- Song of Songs 7:9 Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew lips of sleepers
- Song of Songs 7:11 Or the henna bushes
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or ardor
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or fire, / like the very flame of the Lord
- Song of Songs 8:7 Or he
- Song of Songs 8:11 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12
- Song of Songs 8:12 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
- Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
- Isaiah 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem
Song of Solomon 7 - Isaiah 1
King James Version
Song of Solomon 7 - Isaiah 1
King James Version
7 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
8 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
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