This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.

Whoever obeys his command will not experience harm, and a wise person knows the proper time and procedure.

Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.

Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration

The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

The Lover to His Beloved: My darling, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as awe-inspiring as bannered armies!

Those who are champions at drinking wine are as good as dead, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’

Look, the Lord is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you.

Trust in the Lord from this time forward, even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector!

O Lord, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone.

For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say!

Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,

The Lord is exalted, indeed, he lives in heaven; he fills Zion with justice and fairness.