And [you took] My bread which I gave you, ([yea,] I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and set them before them for a sweet-smelling savor; yes, it was so, says the Lord.

a land of wheat and barley, [with] vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

He brought them up on the strength of the land; He fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.

Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.

All her glory [is that] of the daughter of the king of Heshbon, robed in golden fringed garments,

in embroidered [clothing]; virgins shall be brought to the king after her; her fellows shall be brought to You.

And He fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the flour of wheat.

And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced [them]: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.

And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, [and] in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.

But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by.

The city of the great King is well planted [on] the mountains of Zion, with the joy of the whole earth, [on] the sides of the north.

Out of Zion [comes] the excellence of His beauty.

The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire; and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

Lift up your eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given you, the sheep of your glory?

And I will increase you very exceedingly, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.

And you saw that Nahash king of the children of Ammon came against you, and you said, No, none but a king shall reign over us; when the Lord our God is our king.

And David reigned over all Israel: and David brought about judgment and justice over all his people.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And there were powerful kings in Jerusalem, and they ruled over all the [country] beyond the river, and abundant revenues and tribute were given to them.

And they answered us thus, saying, We [are] the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we [are] building the house which had been built many years before this, and a great king of Israel built it, and established it for them.

Out of Zion [comes] the excellence of His beauty.

SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?