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June 24 - Old & New Testament
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Song of Solomon 6,7,8
1
Y
Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has he[a] turned?
We will seek him with you.
2
W
My love has gone down to his garden,(a)
to beds of spice,(b)
to feed in the gardens(c)
and gather lilies.(d)
3 I am my love's and my love is mine;(e)
he feeds among the lilies.
4
M
You are as beautiful as Tirzah,[b] my darling,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners.(f)
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
for they captivate me.(g)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.(h)
6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.[c](i)
7 Behind your veil,(j)
your brow[d] is like a slice of pomegranate.
8 There are 60 queens
and 80 concubines(k)
and young women[e] without number.
9 But my dove,(l) my virtuous one, is unique;(m)
she is the favorite of her mother,
perfect to the one who gave her birth.
Women see her and declare her fortunate;(n)
queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:
10
Y
[f] Who is this[g](o) who shines like the dawn—
as beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners?(p)
11
W
I came down to the walnut grove
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were budding(q)
and the pomegranates blooming.
12 Before I knew it,
my desire put me
among the chariots of my noble people.[h]
13 [i]
Y
Come back, come back, Shulammite![j][k]
Come back, come back, that we may look at you!
M
Why are you looking at the Shulammite,
as you look at the dance(r) of the two camps?[l](s)
1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess
The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
the handiwork of a master.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your waist[b] is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.(b)
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,(c)
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you[c] like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captive(d) in your tresses.
6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant,(e)
my love, with such delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 I said, "I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit."(f)
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.(g)
9 Your mouth[d] is like fine wine(h)—
W
flowing smoothly for my love,
gliding past my lips and teeth![e]
10 I belong to my love,
and his desire(i) is for me.(j)
11 Come, my love,
let's go to the field;
let's spend the night among the henna blossoms.[f]
12 Let's go early to the vineyards;
let's see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.(k)
There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes(l) give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy—
new as well as old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
1 If only I could treat you like my brother,[a]
one who nursed at my mother's breasts,
I would find you in public and kiss you,
and no one would scorn me.
2 I would lead you, I would take you,
to the house of my mother(a) who taught me.[b]
I would give you spiced wine to drink
from my pomegranate juice.
3 His left hand is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.(b)
4 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.(c)
5
Y
Who is this(d) coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on the one she loves?
W
I awakened you under the apricot tree.(e)
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
6 Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.(f)
For love is as strong as death;(g)
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love's flames are fiery flames(h)—
the fiercest of all.[c]
7 Mighty waters cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealth[d] for love,(i)
it would be utterly scorned.
8
B
Our sister is young;
she has no breasts.(j)
What will we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build a silver parapet on it.
If she is a door,
we will enclose it with cedar planks.[e](k)
10
W
I am[f] a wall
and my breasts like towers.
So in his eyes I have become
like one who finds peace.[g]
11 Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.(l)
He leased the vineyard to tenants.(m)
Each was to bring for his fruit
1,000 pieces of silver.(n)
12 I have my own vineyard.[h](o)
The 1,000 are for you, Solomon,
but 200 for those who guard its fruits.
13
M
You[i] who dwell in the gardens—
companions(p) are listening for your voice—
let me hear you!(q)
14
W
Hurry to me, my love,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.(r)
Acts 7:22-43
Chapter 7
22 So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.(q)
23 "As he was approaching the age of 40, he decided[f] to visit his brothers, the Israelites. 24 When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He assumed his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand. 26 The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?'(r)
27 "But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed him[g] away, saying:
Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday? (s)[h]
29 "At this disclosure, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.(t) 30 After 40 years had passed, an angel[i] appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came: 32 I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. (u)[j] So Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.
33 "Then the Lord said to him:
Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34 I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt. (v)[k]
35 "This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge? [l]—this one God sent as a ruler and a redeemer by means of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.(w) 36 This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,(x) at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 40 years.(y)
Israel's Rebellion against God
37 "This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, God [m] will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. (z)[n] 38 He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors.(aa) He received living oracles to give to us.(ab) 39 Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him away, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.(ac) 40 They told Aaron:
Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what's happened to him. (ad)[o]
41 They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.(ae) 42 Then God turned away(af) and gave them up to worship(ag) the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?
43
No, you took up the tent of Moloch
[p]
and the star of your god Rephan,
[q]
the images that you made to worship.
So I will deport you beyond Babylon!
(ah)[r]
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