Song of Solomon 6:4

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.

Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.

Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.

The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.