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Ask a Question[She proudly said] I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me!
AGAIN THE word of the Lord came to me, saying,
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my [promised] bride! How much better is your love than wine! And the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him.
His hands are like rods of gold set with [nails of] beryl or topaz. His body is a figure of bright ivory overlaid with [veins of] sapphires.
His legs are like strong and steady pillars of marble set upon bases of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent, stately, and majestic as the cedars.
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes coming from their washing, of which all are in pairs, and not one of them is missing.
Your body is like a round goblet in which no mixed wine is wanting. Your abdomen is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
While the king sits at his table [she said], my spikenard [my absent lover] sends forth [his] fragrance [over me].
My beloved [shepherd] is to me like a [scent] bag of myrrh that lies in my bosom.
[The king came forward, saying] How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all manner of choice fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved!
Then I washed you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your [clinging] blood from you and I anointed you with oil.
You played the harlot also with the Assyrians because you were unsatiable; yes, you played the harlot with them, and yet you were not satisfied.
Rather, you were as an adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: As is the mother, so is her daughter.
And they were haughty and committed abominable offenses before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it and I saw fit.
And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, all arrayed like a bride beautified and adorned for her husband;
The beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters and panels are cypresses or pines.