The fig tree ripens her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away!

Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

Listen, O daughter, consider and extend your ear; forget your own people also, and your father's house.

Forsake simplicity, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, My Father will honor him.

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;

I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.

(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),

These are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel struck, and whose land they dispossessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

i1 [To the chief Musician. Neginoth. A Psalm or Song of Asaph.] i0 par In Judah God is known; His name is great in Israel.

You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.