“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

“Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!”

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

Princesses are among your honored guests, your bride stands at your right hand, wearing jewelry made with gold from Ophir.

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

ת (Tav) O people of Zion, your punishment will come to an end; he will not prolong your exile. But, O people of Edom, he will punish your sin and reveal your offenses!

The Beloved to the Maidens: I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.

The Beloved to the Maidens: I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem: “Do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!”

Poor dear Egypt will be put to shame. She will be handed over to the people from the north.”

“Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt!”

But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.

So Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, my dear! Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside my female workers.

Now, my dear, don’t worry! I intend to do for you everything you propose, for everyone in the village knows that you are a worthy woman.

Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.

Why do you brag about your great power? Your power is ebbing away, you rebellious people of Ammon, who trust in your riches and say, ‘Who would dare to attack us?’

Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.

The Lover to His Beloved: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens.

The Beloved to the Maidens: I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields: Do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases!