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3,4As an apricot tree stands out in the forest,my lover stands above the young men in town.All I want is to sit in his shade,to taste and savor his delicious love.He took me home with him for a festive meal,but his eyes feasted on me!
7-10My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
17,18God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.
19We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
1I went to my garden, dear friend, best lover!breathed the sweet fragrance.I ate the fruit and honey,I drank the nectar and wine.Celebrate with me, friends!Raise your glasses—"To life! To love!"
8I beg you, sisters in Jerusalem—if you find my lover,Please tell him I want him,that I’m heartsick with love for him.
9What’s so great about your lover, fair lady?What’s so special about him that you beg for our help?
9,10Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.
14-16Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody.
17-19Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. "I’ll do the judging," says God. "I’ll take care of it."
1If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.Love never gives up.Love cares more for others than for self.Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.Love doesn’t strut,Doesn’t have a swelled head,Doesn’t force itself on others,Isn’t always "me first,"Doesn’t fly off the handle,Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,Doesn’t revel when others grovel,Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,Puts up with anything,Trusts God always,Always looks for the best,Never looks back,But keeps going to the end.
5Take me by the hand;Lead me down the path of truth.You are my Savior, aren’t you?
6Mark the milestones of your mercy and love, God;Rebuild the ancient landmarks!
7Forget that I sowed wild oats;Mark me with your sign of love.Plan only the best for me, God!
1-4Your love, God, is my song, and I’ll sing it!I’m forever telling everyone how faithful you are.I’ll never quit telling the story of your love—how you built the cosmosand guaranteed everything in it.Your love has always been our lives’ foundation,your fidelity has been the roof over our world.You once said, "I joined forces with my chosen leader,I pledged my word to my servant, David, saying,‘Everyone descending from you is guaranteed life;I’ll make your rule as solid and lasting as rock.’"
5-18God! Let the cosmos praise your wonderful ways,the choir of holy angels sing anthems to your faithful ways!Search high and low, scan skies and land,you’ll find nothing and no one quite like God.The holy angels are in awe before him;he looms immense and august over everyone around him.God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who is like you,powerful and faithful from every angle?You put the arrogant ocean in its placeand calm its waves when they turn unruly.You gave that old hag Egypt the back of your hand,you brushed off your enemies with a flick of your wrist.You own the cosmos—you made everything in it,everything from atom to archangel.You positioned the North and South Poles;the mountains Tabor and Hermon sing duets to you.With your well-muscled arm and your grip of steel—nobody messes with you!The Right and Justice are the roots of your rule;Love and Truth are its fruits.Blessed are the people who know the passwords of praise,who shout on parade in the bright presence of God.Delighted, they dance all day long; they knowwho you are, what you do—they can’t keep it quiet!Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us—you’ve been so good to us! We’re walking on air!All we are and have we owe to God,Holy God of Israel, our King!
38-52But God, you did walk off and leave us,you lost your temper with the one you anointed.You tore up the promise you made to your servant,you stomped his crown in the mud.You blasted his home to kingdom come,reduced his city to a pile of rubblePicked clean by wayfaring strangers,a joke to all the neighbors.You declared a holiday for all his enemies,and they’re celebrating for all they’re worth.Angry, you opposed him in battle,refused to fight on his side;You robbed him of his splendor, humiliated this warrior,ground his kingly honor in the dirt.You took the best years of his lifeand left him an impotent, ruined husk.How long do we put up with this, God?Are you gone for good? Will you hold this grudge forever?Remember my sorrow and how short life is.Did you create men and women for nothing but this?We’ll see death soon enough. Everyone does.And there’s no back door out of hell.So where is the love you’re so famous for, Lord?What happened to your promise to David?Take a good look at your servant, dear Lord;I’m the butt of the jokes of all nations,The taunting jokes of your enemies, God,as they dog the steps of your dear anointed.Blessed be God forever and always!Yes. Oh, yes.
13-16God said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they’ll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. Then I’ll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder. But not you; you’ll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death. Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."
9-11"In contrast, I was always on your side.I destroyed the Amorites who confronted you,Amorites with the stature of great cedars,tough as thick oaks.I destroyed them from the top branches down.I destroyed them from the roots up.And yes, I’m the One who delivered you from Egypt,led you safely through the wilderness for forty yearsAnd then handed you the country of the Amoriteslike a piece of cake on a platter.I raised up some of your young men to be prophets,set aside your best youth for training in holiness.Isn’t this so, Israel?"God’s Decree.
10-15The People of Israel set out and camped at Oboth. They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that faces Moab on the east. They went from there and pitched camp in the Zered Valley. Their next camp was alongside the Arnon River, which marks the border between Amorite country and Moab. The Book of the Wars of God refers to this place:Waheb in Suphah,the canyons of Arnon;Along the canyon ravinesthat lead to the village ArAnd lean hard againstthe border of Moab.
6-8And then the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God’s sight. They worshiped the Baal gods and Ashtoreth goddesses: gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab; gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They just walked off and left God, quit worshiping him. And God exploded in hot anger at Israel and sold them off to the Philistines and Ammonites, who, beginning that year, bullied and battered the People of Israel mercilessly. For eighteen years they had them under their thumb, all the People of Israel who lived east of the Jordan in the Amorite country of Gilead.
7-10"Then they cried out for help to God. He put a cloud between you and the Egyptians and then let the sea loose on them. It drowned them."You watched the whole thing with your own eyes, what I did to Egypt. And then you lived in the wilderness for a long time. I brought you to the country of the Amorites, who lived east of the Jordan, and they fought you. But I fought for you and you took their land. I destroyed them for you. Then Balak son of Zippor made his appearance. He was the king of Moab. He got ready to fight Israel by sending for Balaam son of Beor to come and curse you. But I wouldn’t listen to Balaam—he ended up blessing you over and over! I saved you from him.
2,3Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned from Heshbon: His rule extended from Aroer, which sits at the edge of the Arnon Gorge, from the middle of the gorge and over half of Gilead to the Gorge of the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. His rule included the eastern Arabah Valley from the Sea of Kinnereth to the Arabah Sea (the Salt Sea), eastward toward Beth Jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.
5-7In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him set out and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El Paran on the far edge of the desert. On their way back they stopped at En Mishpat, that is, Kadesh, and conquered the whole region of the Amalekites as well as that of the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Tamar.
1So where has this love of yours gone,fair one?Where on earth can he be?Can we help you look for him?
2,3Never mind. My lover is already on his way to his garden,to browse among the flowers, touching the colors and forms.I am my lover’s and my lover is mine.He caresses the sweet-smelling flowers.
4-7Dear, dear friend and lover,you’re as beautiful as Tirzah, city of delights,Lovely as Jerusalem, city of dreams,the ravishing visions of my ecstasy.Your beauty is too much for me—I’m in over my head.I’m not used to this! I can’t take it in.Your hair flows and shimmerslike a flock of goats in the distancestreaming down a hillside in the sunshine.Your smile is generous and full—expressive and strong and clean.Your veiled cheeksare soft and radiant.
7,8God said, "I’ve taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
9And yes, the Day is coming when their fortress cities will be abandoned—the very same cities that the Hivites and Amorites abandoned when Israel invaded! And the country will be empty, desolate.
1-4Thank God because he’s good,because his love never quits.Tell the world, Israel,"His love never quits."And you, clan of Aaron, tell the world,"His love never quits."And you who fear God, join in,"His love never quits."
5-16Pushed to the wall, I called to God;from the wide open spaces, he answered.God’s now at my side and I’m not afraid;who would dare lay a hand on me?God’s my strong champion;I flick off my enemies like flies.Far better to take refuge in Godthan trust in people;Far better to take refuge in Godthan trust in celebrities.Hemmed in by barbarians,in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt;Hemmed in and with no way out,in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt;Like swarming bees, like wild prairie fire, they hemmed me in;in God’s name I rubbed their faces in the dirt.I was right on the cliff-edge, ready to fall,when God grabbed and held me.God’s my strength, he’s also my song,and now he’s my salvation.Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songsin the camp of the saved?"The hand of God has turned the tide!The hand of God is raised in victory!The hand of God has turned the tide!"
26-29Blessed are you who enter in God’s name—from God’s house we bless you!God is God,he has bathed us in light.Adorn the shrine with garlands,hang colored banners above the altar!You’re my God, and I thank you.O my God, I lift high your praise.Thank God—he’s so good.His love never quits!
7-10The remnants from the original inhabitants of the land (Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites—all non-Israelites), survivors of the holy wars, were rounded up by Solomon for his gangs of slave labor. The policy is in effect today. But true Israelites were not treated this way; they were used in his army and administration—government leaders and commanders of his chariots and charioteers. They were also the project managers responsible for Solomon’s building operations—250 in all in charge of the workforce.
34,35The Amorites pushed the people of Dan up into the hills and wouldn’t let them down on the plains. The Amorites stubbornly continued to live in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph got the upper hand, they were put to forced labor.