Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.

Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.

Her husband is well-known in the city gate when he sits with the elders of the land.

Give her credit for what she has accomplished, and let her works praise her in the city gates.

I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

The Beloved: I was a wall, and my breasts were like fortress towers. Then I found favor in his eyes.

“A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds,” says the Lord.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah early in the reign of Josiah’s son, King Zedekiah of Judah.

“The Lord God of Israel says, ‘Write everything that I am about to tell you in a scroll.

They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.

“You must not disobey the Lord your God by saying, ‘We will not stay in this land.’

“My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.

For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red,

“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes: “‘Who are you like in your greatness?