May your mouth be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together.

Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love, the offer would be utterly despised.

My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal alone. The thousand shekels belong to you, O Solomon, and two hundred shekels belong to those who maintain it for its fruit.

None tire or stumble, they don’t stop to nap or sleep. They don’t loosen their belts, or unstrap their sandals to rest.

At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

All you who live in the world, who reside on the earth, you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains; you will hear a trumpet being blown.

On this mountain he will swallow up the shroud that is over all the peoples, the woven covering that is over all the nations;

Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” Then he thought, “For there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.”

From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the Lord, “and I will heal them.

They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

Nations will see your vindication, and all kings your splendor. You will be called by a new name that the Lord himself will give you.

Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power against those who live in this land,” says the Lord.

Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.

and on the mountains and in the fields. I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

You who live in Aroer, stand by the road and watch. Question the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping. Ask them, ‘What has happened?’

“Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.