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a ch. 4. 16.

b ch. 4. 11.

e Luke 15, 7, 10. John S. 29. & 15. 14.

Il Or, and be

fruits.

CHAPTER V.

The beloved in his garden. 2 The bride's love for him.

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9 His graces described.

AM come into my garden, my

16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, Ŏ daughters of Jerusalem.

CHAPTER VI.

I sister, my spouse: I have gather-The bride's coPTER vei. 4 He setteth

ed my myrrh with my spice; I have

eaten my honeycomb with my honey:

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I have drunk my wine with eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink drunken with abundantly, O beloved.

loves.

d Rev. 3. 20.

|| Or, (as some read,) in me.

+ Heb. passing, or, running about.

e ch. 3. 1.

f ch. 3. 3.

+ Heb. what.

g ch. 1. 8.

+ Heb. a
standard-
bearer.
Or, curled.

h ch. 1. 15. & 4. 1.

+ Heb. sitting in fulness, that is, fitly placed, and

set as a pre

d

2 I sleep, but my heart waketh it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone my soul failed when he spake I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my vail from

me.

forth her graces, 10 and his love for her.
HITHER is thy beloved gone,

W10 thou fairest among wo

men? whither is thy beloved turned
aside? that we may seek him with
thee.

2 My beloved is gone down into
his garden, to the beds of spices, to
feed in the gardens, and to gather
lilies.

B. C. about 1014.

+ Heb. His palate.

a ch. 1. 8.

7. 10.

3 I am my beloved's, and my be- ch. 2, 16. & loved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

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9 My dove, my undefiled is but one e;
she is the only one of her mother, she
is the choice one of her that bare her.
The daughters saw her, and blessed
8 I charge you, O daughters of Je-her; yea, the queens and the concu-
rusalem, if ye find my beloved, † that
ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
9 T What is thy beloved more than
another beloved, O thou fairest
among women? what is thy beloved
more than another beloved, that thou
dost so charge us?

10 My beloved is white and ruddy,
+ the chiefest among ten thousand.
11 His head is as the most fine gold:
his locks are bushy, and black as a

raven:

12 h His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set:

13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, cious stone in dropping sweet smelling myrrh : 14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright of perfumes. ivory overlaid with sapphires:

the foil of a ring.

|| Or, towers

15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:

f ch. 4. 3.

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the joints of thy thighs are like about 1014. jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Heb, miz

I tare.

ch. 4. 5.

ch. 4.4.

10r, crimson. Heb, bound,

+Heb. straightly.

1 Or. of the ancient

4 ch. 2. 16. & 6.3.

Ps. 45. 11.

(ch. 6. 11.

+ Heb. open.

: Gen. 30. 14.

2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a 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 Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damas

cus.

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 TI 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.

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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, Matt 13, 52 and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

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The desire of the bride.

without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

B. C. about 1014.

they should despise me.

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 a Prov. 9. 2. my pomegranate.

3 His left hand should be under b ch. 2. 6. 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 she please.

5 d 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.

e ch. 2. 7. & 3. 5.

+ Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why, &c.

d ch. 3. 6.

Is. 49. 16.

Jer. 22, 24. Hag. 2. 23.

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 + Heb. hard. are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: fiff Prov. 6. 35. 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 Ez. 23. 33. 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.

+ Heb. peace.

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard Matt. 21. 33, 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 ch. 2. 14.

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.

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Mic. 1. 2. & 6. 1, 2. c ch. 5. 1, 2.

d Jer. 8. 7.

e Jer. 9. 3, 6. f ch. 5. 12.

+ Heb. of heaviness.

g ch. 57, 3, 4. Matt. 3. 7.

+ Heb. alienated, or, separated, P's. 58. 3. + Heb. increase revolt. h ch. 9. 13. Jer. 2, 30. & 5. 3.

i Jer, 8. 22.

|| Or, oil.

k Deut. 28. 51, 52.

me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib but Israel e doth not know, my people 'doth not consider.

4 Ah sinful nation, a people † laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, 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.

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7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, + Heb. as the and it is desolate, † as overthrown by overthrow of strangers.

strangers.

1 Job 27. 18. Lam. 2. 6. m Jer. 4. 17.

n Lam. 3. 22. Rom. 9. 29.

o Gen. 19. 24.

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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.

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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 P Deut. 32. 32. rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Ez. 16. 46.

B. C.

11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? about 760. 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 the goats. + Heb. great 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.

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Jer. 31. 6. & 50.5. Zech.

8. 21, 23.

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 fedeemed with judgment, and her converts with right

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3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will Lake 24. 47.walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears Or, scythes. into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us 'walk in the light of the LORD. 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy P106.35. people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, than the east and are soothsayers like the Philis

6 Ps. 46.9. Hos. 2. 18. Zech. 9. 10.

b Pa. 72, 3, 7.

Eph. 5. 8.

* Num. 23, 7.

| Deut 18. 14.

Jer. 10.2.

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Punishment threatened.

7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made :

9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

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Rev. 6. 15.

10 TPEnter into the rock, and hidep ver. 19, 21. thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be a ver. 17. ch. humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

14 And 'upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

5. 15, 16. & 13. 11.

r ch. 4. 1. & 11. 10, 11. & 12. 1, 4. & 24. 21. & 25. 9. & 2. 1. & 27. 1, 2, 12, 13. & 28. 5. & 29. 18. & 30. 23. & 52.

6. Jer. 30. 7.
8. Ez. 38. 14,
19. & 39. 11,
22. Hos. 2.
16, 18, 21.
Joel S. 18.
Am. 9. 11.
Obad. 8.
Mic. 4. 6. &
5. 10. & 7.11,
12. Zeph. 3.
11, 16. Zech.
9. 16.

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in the children of strangers.

of hosts, doth take away from

d ver. 19. e ver. 10, 19.

Jer. 17. 5. g Job 27. 3.

a Jer. 37. 21. &

38. 9.

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d Ecc. 10. 16.

+ Heb. lift up the hand, Gen. 14. 22.

up.

4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a thealer; for in

+ Heb, binder my house is neither bread nor clothing make me not a ruler of the people.

e Mic. 3. 12.

f Gen. 13. 13. & 18. 20, 21. & 19. 5.

8 Ecc. 8. 12. h Ps. 123. 2.

i Ps. 11. 6. Ecc. 8. 13.

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

to come upon Judah.

17 Therefore the Lord will smite with Pa scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their 'round tires like the

moon,

19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

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23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; ch. 22. 12. and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

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Mic. 1. 16.

+ Heb. might.

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate " shall Or, emptied sit upon the ground.

CHAPTER IV.

9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as 'Sodom, they hide The greatness of the coming distress. 2 The future

it not. Woe unto their soul! for they

have rewarded evil unto themselves;

10 Say ye to the righteous, & that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his +Heb. done to hands shall be given him.

him.

k ver. 4.

1 ch. 9. 16. Or, they which call thee blessed. + Heb. swallow up. m Mic. 6. 2.

|| Or, burnt. n ch. 5. 7. Matt. 21. 33. o ch. 5. Mic. 8. 2, 3.

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12 TAs for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. 1 O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

m

13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have I eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

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15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haugh+ Heb. deceivty, and walk with stretched forth necks ing with their and wanton eyes, walking and mincOr, tripping ing as they go, and making a tinkling

eyes.

nicely.

with their feet:

prosperity of Zion.

AND in that day seven women

Heb. cleans ed.

t Jer. 14. 2

Lam. 1. 4.

a Lam. 2 10.

a ch. 2. 11, 17.

b 2 Thess. S. 12.

shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us + Heb. let thy be called by thy name," to take away our reproach.

2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely † for them that are escaped of Israel.

name be call

ed upon us. ||Or, take thou away.

+ Heb, beauty

+

and glory.

Heb. for the

escaping of Israel.

Luke 1.25
Jer. 23.5.

Zech, S. 8.
& 6. 12

3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusa-Or, to life. lem:

4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5 And the LORD will create upon every dwellingplace of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a! flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be † a defence.

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