A Relative: Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree. There your mother travailed with you; there she travailed with you and bore you.

And you shall remember that Jehovah your God has led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Thus says Jehovah, The people who were survivors of the sword have found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I go to give him rest.

Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to shine on them, to go by day and night.

The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.

And also I will pour out My Spirit on the menservants and on the maidservants in those days.

The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Jehovah.

And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

If then you are raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

Set your mind on things above, not on the things of the earth;

Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, your name is ointment poured forth; therefore the virgins love you.

A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, who lies between my breasts.

A bolted enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse; a spring locked up, a fountain sealed.

spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief balsam;

I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

His cheeks are like a bed of spices, like grown herbs. His lips are like lilies, dripping flowing myrrh.

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us manifests the aroma of His knowledge in every place.

To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.