As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me.

The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. I [said], Have you seen him whom my soul loves?

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you should find my kinsman, what are you to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.

His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

For the end, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the Lord; [the words] which he spoke to the Lord, [even] the words of this song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul. And he said: I will love You, O Lord, my strength.

Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication.

Now I will sing to [my] Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. [My] Beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.

which our soul longs for; my spirit seeks You very early in the morning, O God, for Your commandments are a light on the earth; learn righteousness, you that dwell upon the earth.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

He said to him the third time, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you care for Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you care for Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I care for You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,

Therefore, to you who believe, [He] is precious; but to those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,"

And he said, I am seeking my brothers; tell me where they feed [their flocks].

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

In a place of green grass, there He has made me dwell; He has nourished me by the water of rest.

For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony of Asaph, A Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guides Joseph like a flock; You who sit upon the cherubim, manifest Yourself;

He shall tend His flock as a shepherd, and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and He shall soothe them that are with young.

And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed His flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of My Father's hand.

because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and He leads them to [the] springs of [the] waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: you have [indeed] done all this wickedness; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart.

And turn not aside after [the gods] that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver you, because they are nothing.

[A Psalm] of David. To You, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me; lest You be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

Then Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?"

Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but [they went out] in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.