How beautiful is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, and the scent of your ointments than all spices!

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

The Beloved: I have come to my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. To His Friends: Eat, O friends! Drink, yes, get drunk, O beloved ones!

Shulamite: I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my beloved! He knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is covered with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.

And yet she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

For whoever does the will of My Father in Heaven, that one is My brother and sister and mother.

Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

And again: I will put My trust in Him. And again: Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.

Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, the day of the gladness of his heart.

Kings' daughters are among Your precious ones; on Your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

For your Maker is your husband; Jehovah of Hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. He shall be called, GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord Jehovah.

And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in justice, and in kindness, and in compassion.

I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know Jehovah.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, pure and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.

And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God,

Before I was even aware, my soul had made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; the king is held captive in its tresses.

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, O love; so exquisite!

I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

as a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and always be intoxicated in her love.

For why, my son, will you be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Jehovah your God is mighty in your midst; He will save. He will rejoice over you with joy; He will quiet you in His love. He rejoices over you with joyful praise.

The Beloved: Behold, you are beautiful, my love! Behold, you are beautiful; with dove's eyes!

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats lying down in Gilead.

Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with chains of gold.