you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.

by knowledge its rooms are filled with all kinds of precious and pleasing treasures.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed;

Saul and Jonathan were greatly loved during their lives, and not even in their deaths were they separated. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.

Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!

A song of ascents, by David. Look! How good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together!

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good! Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant!

Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God! Yes, praise is pleasant and appropriate!

For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

These are the final words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised up as the ruler chosen by the God of Jacob, Israel’s beloved singer of songs: