One who acts wickedly pays attention to evil counsel; a liar listens to a malicious tongue.

Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking on foot like slaves.

The Beloved about Her Lover: Listen! My lover is approaching! Look! Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills!

His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth; my hand is ready to strike all the nations.”

For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.

along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.

They will be imprisoned in a pit, locked up in a prison, and after staying there for a long time, they will be punished.

These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.

Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills

I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt with war, starvation, and disease just as I punished Jerusalem.

Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.

Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads.

I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.

When Moses heard it he fell down with his face to the ground.

They traveled from Elim, and camped by the Red Sea.