<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Lover to His Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Oh,<n id="1" /> how beautiful you are, my beloved!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Oh, how beautiful you are!p> <p class="poetry">Your eyes<n id="3" /> are like doves!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Who are these who float along<n id="1" /> like a cloud,p> <p class="poetry">who fly like doves to their shelters?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Noah<n id="1" /> sent out a dove<n id="2" /> to see if the waters had receded<n id="3" /> from the surface of the ground.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;He will then make one of the turtledoves<n id="1" /> or young pigeons, which are within his means,<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">I say,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I wish I had wings like a dove!p> <p class="poetry">I would fly away and settle in a safe place!p>

<p class="poetry">When<n id="1" /> you lie down among the sheepfolds,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the wings of the dove are covered with silverp> <p class="poetry">and with glittering gold.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">His eyes are like doves by streams of water,p> <p class="poetry">washed in milk, mounted like jewels.p>

<p class="poetry">We all growl like bears,p> <p class="poetry">we coo mournfully like doves;p> <p class="poetry">we wait for deliverance,<n id="1" /> but there is none,p> <p class="poetry">for salvation, but it is far from us.p>

<p class="poetry">Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab.p> <p class="poetry">Go and live in the cliffs.p> <p class="poetry">Be like a dove that makes its nestp> <p class="poetry">high on the sides of a ravine.<n id="1" />p>

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan &#8211; each one for his iniquity.

<t /><p class="poetry">Ephraim has been like a dove,p> <p class="poetry">easily deceived and lacking discernment.p> <p class="poetry">They called to Egypt for help;p> <p class="poetry">they turned to Assyria for protection.p>

<p class="poetry">They will return in fear and trembling<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like birds from Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">like doves from Assyria,p> <p class="poetry">and I will settle them in their homes,&#8221; declares the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Nineveh<n id="1" /> is taken into exile<n id="2" /> and is led away;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">her slave girls moan<n id="4" /> like doves<n id="5" /> while they beat<n id="6" /> their breasts.<n id="7" />p>

When<n id="1" /> the dove returned to him in the evening, there was<n id="2" /> a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again,<n id="1" /> but it did not return to him this time.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If his offering to the <sc>Lordsc> is a burnt offering from the birds,<n id="1" /> he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young pigeons.<n id="2" />

and two turtledoves or two young pigeons,<n id="1" /> which are within his means.<n id="2" /> One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.<n id="3" />p>

Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons<n id="1" /> and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

On the eighth day he is to bring<n id="1" /> two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.