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

the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,

Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

Then the Lord provoked their adversaries to attack them, he stirred up their enemies –

Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.

Has the Lord struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?

Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood.

The Lord said to me, “I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.”

So I bought the shorts as the Lord had told me to do and put them on.

Then Zedekiah told Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about the conversation we have had. If you do, you will die.

They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.

ח (Khet) The Lord’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.

It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces:

“‘They must not shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they must only trim their heads.

O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol! My anger burns against them! They will not survive much longer without being punished, even though they are Israelites!

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

You are happy because you conquered Lo-Debar. You say, “Did we not conquer Karnaim by our own power?”

All the sinners among my people will die by the sword – the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’