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

She considers a field and buys it; from her own income she plants a vineyard.

The Teacher sought to find delightful words, and to write accurately truthful sayings.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

The Lord who commands armies will be exalted when he punishes, the sovereign God’s authority will be recognized when he judges.

Indeed, the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria; he will beat them with a club.

Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

The coastlands see and are afraid; the whole earth trembles; they approach and come.

“Present your argument,” says the Lord. “Produce your evidence,” says Jacob’s king.

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

For you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts.

Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

I looked and saw that there were no more people, and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.

Listen to what they are saying to me. They are saying, “Where are the things the Lord threatens us with? Come on! Let’s see them happen!”

The answer will come back, “It is because they broke their covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods.”

But listen to what I say to you and to all these people.

“We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us!

Terror, pits, and traps are in store for the people who live in Moab. I, the Lord, affirm it!

He did what displeased the Lord just as Jehoiakim had done.