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Ask a QuestionAnd the roof of your mouth like the best wine. The Shulamite The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved, Moving gently the lips of sleepers.
"I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
"Then it was so, after all your wickedness - 'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD -
"that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
"You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
"How degenerate is your heart!" says the Lord GOD, "seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
"For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms In the vineyards of En Gedi.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases.
The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land.
I have taken off my robe; How can I put it on again? I have washed my feet; How can I defile them?
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him I am lovesick!
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, And the hair of your head is like purple; A king is held captive by your tresses.
"I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck.
"And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
"You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.
"Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
"They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
"that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them.
And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.