For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, “May there be peace in you!”

Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors did not ally themselves with Adonijah.

The Lover to His Beloved: If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.