Hello and welcome to
"His Words are Life."
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I am Kelly Mower and
today we are going to be reading
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together from The Song of Songs
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"The Song of Solomon."
Let's pray before we start.
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Dear God, please
open our hearts today
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as we read this
Song of Songs and help us
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to see a picture of
You and the love that we
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need to have for You and
the love that You have for us.
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Change us and
make You the center
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and the focus in
the love of our life.
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Thank you for
hearing our prayer,
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we pray it in the
name of Jesus, amen.
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We're beginning in
the Song of Solomon
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Chapter 1 with verse 11,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"We will make thee borders
of gold with studs of silver.
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While the King
sitteth at his table,
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my spikenard sendeth
forth the smell thereof.
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A bundle of myrrh is
my well-beloved unto me,
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he shall lie all
night betwixt my breasts.
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My beloved is unto me
as a cluster of camphire
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in the vineyards of Enge'di.
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Behold, thou art fair, my
love, behold, thou art fair
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thou hast doves' eyes.
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Behold, thou art fair,
my beloved, yea, pleasant,
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also our bed is green.
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The beams of
our house are cedar,
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and our rafters of fir."
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Continuing in the
Song of Solomon Chapter 2,
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this is the King James Version."
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I am the rose of Sharon,
and the lily of the valleys.
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As the lily among thorns,
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so is my love
among the daughters.
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As the apple tree
among the trees of the wood,
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so is my beloved among the sons.
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I sat down under his
shadow with great delight,
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and his fruit was
sweet to my taste.
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He brought me to
the banqueting house,
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and his banner over me was love.
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Stay me with flagons,
comfort me with apples,
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for I am sick of love.
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His left hand is under my head,
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and his right
hand doth embrace me.
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I charge you, O ye
daughters of Jerusalem,
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by the roes, and by
the hinds of the field,
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that ye stir not up,
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nor awake my
love, till he please.
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The voice of my beloved! Behold,
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he cometh leaping
upon the mountains,
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skipping upon the hills.
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My beloved is like
a roe or a young hart,
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behold, he
standeth behind our wall,
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he looketh forth at the windows,
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shewing himself
through the lattice.
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My beloved
spake, and said unto me,
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Rise up, my love, my
fair one, and come away.
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For, lo, the winter is
past, the rain is over and gone.
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The flowers appear on the earth,
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the time of the
singing of birds is come,
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and the voice of the
turtle is heard in our land,
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The fig tree putteth
forth her green figs,
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and the vines with the
tender grape give a good smell.
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Arise, my love, my
fair one, and come away.
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O my dove, that art in
the clefts of the rock,
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in the secret
places of the stairs,
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let me see thy countenance,
let me hear thy voice,
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for sweet is thy voice,
and thy countenance is comely.
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Take us the
foxes, the little foxes,
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that spoil the
vines, for our vines
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have tender
grapes. My beloved is mine,
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and I am his, he
feedeth me among the lilies.
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Until the day break,
and the shadows flee away,
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turn, my beloved,
and be thou like a roe
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or a young hart upon
the mountains of Bether."
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Continuing with the
Song of Solomon Chapter 3,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"By night on my bed I
sought him whom my soul loveth,
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I sought him,
but I found him not.
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I will rise now, and go
about the city in the streets,
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and in the broad ways I will
seek him whom my soul loveth,
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I sought him,
but I found him not.
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The watchmen that go
about the city found me,
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to whom I said, Saw ye
him whom my soul loveth?
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It was but a little
that I passed from them,
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but I found him whom my
soul loveth, I held him,
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and would not let him go,
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until I had brought
him into my mother's house,
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and into the chamber
of her that conceived me.
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I charge you, O ye
daughters of Jerusalem,
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by the roes, and by
the hinds of the field,
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that ye stir not up, nor
awake my love, till he please.
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Who is this that
cometh out of the wilderness
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like pillars of
smoke, perfumed with myrrh
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and frankincense, with
all powders of the merchant?
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Behold his bed,
which is Solomon's,
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threescore
valiant men are about it,
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of the valiant of Israel.
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They all hold
swords, being expert in war,
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every man hath his
sword upon his thigh
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because of fear in the night.
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King Solomon
made himself a chariot
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of the wood of Lebanon.
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He made the
pillars thereof of silver,
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the bottom thereof of gold,
the covering of it of purple,
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the midst thereof
being paved with love,
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for the daughters of Jerusalem.
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Go forth, O ye
daughters of Zion,
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and behold king
Solomon with the crown
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where with his
mother crowned him
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in the day of his espousals,
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and in the day of the
gladness of his heart.
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Continuing with the
Song of Solomon Chapter 4,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Behold, thou art fair, my
love behold, thou art fair,
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thou hast doves'
eyes within thy locks,
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thy hair is as a flock of goats,
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that appear from mount Gilead.
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Thy teeth are like a flock
of sheep that are even shorn,
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which came up from the washing
whereof every one bear twins,
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and none is barren among them.
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Thy lips are like
a thread of scarlet,
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and thy speech is comely,
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thy temples are like
a piece of a pomegranate
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within thy locks.
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Thy neck is like
the tower of David
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builded for an armoury,
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whereon there hang
a thousand bucklers
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all shields of mighty men.
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Thy two breasts are like
two young roes that are twins,
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which feed among the lilies.
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Until the day break,
and the shadows flee away,
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I will get me to
the mountain of myrrh,
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and to the hill of frankincense.
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Thou art all fair, my
love, there is no spot in thee.
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Come with me from
Lebanon, my spouse,
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with me from Lebanon,
look from the top of Amana,
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from the top of
Shenir and Hermon,
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from the lions' dens, from
the mountains of the leopards.
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Thou hast ravished my
heart, my sister, my spouse,
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thou hast ravished my
heart with one of thine eyes,
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with one chain of thy neck.
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How fair is thy
love, my sister, my spouse!
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How much better is
thy love than wine!
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And the smell of thine
ointments than all spices!
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Thy lips, O my
spouse, drop as the honeycomb,
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honey and milk
are under thy tongue,
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and the smell of thy garments
is like the smell of Lebanon.
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A garden inclosed is my sister
my spouse, a spring shut up,
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a fountain sealed.
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Thy plants are an
orchard of pomegranates,
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with pleasant fruits,
camphire, with spikenard,
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Spikenard and
saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
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with all trees of
frankincense myrrh and aloes,
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with all the chief
spices, A fountain of gardens,
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a well of living waters,
and streams from Lebanon.
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Awake, O north wind,
and come, thou south,
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blow upon my
garden, that the spices
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thereof may flow out.
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Let my beloved
come into his garden,
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and eat his pleasant fruits."
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Continuing with the
Song of Solomon Chapter 5,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"I am come into my
garden my sister, my spouse,
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I have gathered
my myrrh in my spice,
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I have eaten my
honeycomb with my honey,
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I have drunk my wine
with my milk, eat, O friends,
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drink, yea, drink
abundantly, O beloved.
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I sleep, but my heart waketh,
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it is the voice of my
beloved that knocketh,
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saying, Open to me, my sister,
my love, my dove, my undefiled
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for my head is filled with dew,
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and my locks with
the drops of the night.
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I have put off my
coat, how shall I put it on?
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I have washed my feet,
how shall I defile them?
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My beloved put in his
hand by the hole of the door,
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and my bowels
were moved for him.
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I rose up to open to my beloved,
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and my hands dropped with myrrh,
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and my fingers with
sweet smelling myrrh,
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upon the handles of the lock.
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I opened to my beloved,
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but my beloved
had withdrawn himself,
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and was gone, my
soul failed when he spake,
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I sought him, but
I could not find him,
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I called him, but
he gave me no answer.
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The watchmen that went
about the city found me,
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they smote me, they wounded me,
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the keepers of the walls
took away my veil from me.
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I charge you, O
daughters of Jerusalem,
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if ye find my
beloved, that ye tell him,
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that I am sick of love.
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What is thy beloved
more than another beloved,
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O thou fairest among women?
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What is thy beloved
more than another beloved,
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that thou dost so charge us?
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My beloved is white and ruddy,
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the chiefest among ten thousand.
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His head is as
the most fine gold,
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his locks are bushy,
and black as a raven.
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His eyes are as
the eyes of doves
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by the rivers of
waters, washed with milk,
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and fitly set.
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His cheeks are
as a bed of spices,
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as sweet flowers,
his lips like lilies,
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dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
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His hands are as gold
rings set with the beryl,
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his belly is as bright
ivory overlaid with sapphires.
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His legs are as
pillars of marble,
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set upon sockets of fine gold,
his countenance is as Lebanon,
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excellent as the cedars.
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His mouth is most sweet,
yea, he is altogether lovely.
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This is my beloved,
and this is my friend,
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O daughters of Jerusalem."
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Continuing with the
Song of Solomon Chapter 6,
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this is the King James Version.
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"Whither is thy beloved gone,
O thou fairest among women?
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Whither is thy
beloved turned aside?
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that we may seek him with thee.
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My beloved is gone
down into his garden,
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to the beds of spices,
to feed in the gardens,
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and to gather lilies.
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I am my beloved,
and my beloved is mine,
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he feedeth among the lilies.
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Thou art beautiful, O my love,
as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem
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terrible as an
army with banners.
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Turn away thine eyes from
me, for they have overcome me,
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thy hair is as a flock of goats
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that appear from Gilead.
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Thy teeth are as a
flock of sheep which go up
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from the washing,
whereof every one beareth twins,
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and there is not
one barren among them.
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As a piece of a
pomegranate are thy temples
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within thy locks.
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There are threescore queens,
and fourscore concubines,
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and virgins without number.
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My dove, my
undefiled is but one,
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she is the only
one of her mother,
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she is the choice
one of her that bare her.
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The daughters saw
her, and blessed her,
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yea, the queens
and the concubines,
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and they praised her.
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Who is she that
looketh forth as the morning,
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fair as the
moon, clear as the sun,
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and terrible as
an army with banners?
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I went down into
the garden of nuts
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to see the fruits of the valley,
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and to see whether
the vine flourished,
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and the pomegranates budded.
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Or ever I was aware,
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my soul made me like
the chariots of Amminadib.
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Return, return, O
Shulamite, return, return,
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that we may look upon thee.
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What will ye see
in the Shulamite?
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As it were the
company of two armies."
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Continuing with Song
of Solomon Chapter 7,
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this is the King James Version.
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"How beautiful are
thy feet with shoes,
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O prince's daughter!
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The joints of thy
thighs are like jewels,
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the work of the
hands of a cunning workman.
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Thy navel is
like a round goblet,
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which wanteth not liquor,
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thy belly is
like an heap of wheat
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set about with lilies.
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Thy two breasts are like
two young roes that are twins.
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Thy neck is as a tower of ivory,
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thine eyes like the
fishpools in Heshbon,
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by the gate of Bath-rabbim,
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thy nose is as
the tower of Lebanon
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which looketh toward Damascus.
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Thine head upon
thee is like Carmel,
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and the hair of
thine head like purple,
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the king is held
in the galleries.
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How fair and how pleasant
art thou, O love, for delights
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This thy stature is
like to a palm tree,
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and thy breasts to
clusters of grapes.
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I said, I will go
up to the palm tree,
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I will take hold
of the boughs thereof,
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now also thy breasts shall
be as clusters of the vine,
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and the smell of
thy nose like apples,
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And the roof of thy mouth like
the best wine for my beloved,
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that goeth down sweetly,
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causing the lips of
those that are asleep to speak.
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I am my beloved's, and
his desire is toward me.
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Come, my beloved, let
us go forth into the field
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let us lodge in the villages.
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Let us get up
early to the vineyards,
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let us see if the vine flourish,
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whether the tender grape appear,
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and the pomegranates bud forth,
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there will I give thee my loves.
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The mandrakes give a smell,
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and at our gates are all
manner of pleasant fruits,
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new and old,
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which I have laid up
for thee, O my beloved."
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Please join me again next time
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to read the
word of God together.
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And as we have
spent this time together
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reading the Song of Songs,
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the great love of
song of King Salmon.
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May the Holy Spirit have
planted in each of our hearts
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a deeper love for God,
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so that He
becomes our sole focus
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in the source of
all beauty in our lives?
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