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You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.
"How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
gather the people.Consecrate the congregation;assemble the elders;gather the children,even nursing infants.Let the bridegroom leave his room,and the bride her chamber.
Let us rejoice and exultand give him the glory,for the marriage of the Lamb has come,and his Bride has made herself ready;
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,by the gazelles or the does of the field,that you not stir up or awaken loveuntil it pleases.
The flowers appear on the earth,the time of singing has come,and the voice of the turtledoveis heard in our land.
I had put off my garment;how could I put it on?I had bathed my feet;how could I soil them?
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,if you find my beloved,that you tell himI am sick with love.
Your head crowns you like Carmel,and your flowing locks are like purple;a king is held captive in the tresses.
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.
She I am very dark, but lovely,O daughters of Jerusalem,like the tents of Kedar,like the curtains of Solomon.
He If you do not know,O most beautiful among women,follow in the tracks of the flock,and pasture your young goatsbeside the shepherds' tents.
My beloved is like a gazelleor a young stag.Behold, there he standsbehind our wall,gazing through the windows,looking through the lattice.