5Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully.His faithful love endures forever.

6Give thanks to him who placed the earth among the waters.His faithful love endures forever.

26Give thanks to the God of heaven.His faithful love endures forever.

20I said to you, ‘You have now reached the hill country of the Amorites that the Lord our God is giving us.

21Look! He has placed the land in front of you. Go and occupy it as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you. Don’t be afraid! Don’t be discouraged!’

44But the Amorites who lived there came out against you like a swarm of bees. They chased and battered you all the way from Seir to Hormah.

14Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

27and Abram, later known as Abraham.

53Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

1Where has your lover gone,O woman of rare beauty?Which way did he turnso we can help you find him?Young Woman

3I am my lover’s, and my lover is mine.He browses among the lilies.Young Man

4You are beautiful, my darling,like the lovely city of Tirzah.Yes, as beautiful as Jerusalem,as majestic as an army with billowing banners.

1If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

6Oh, how beautiful you are!How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!

10I am my lover’s,and he claims me as his own.

12Let us get up early and go to the vineyardsto see if the grapevines have budded,if the blossoms have opened,and if the pomegranates have bloomed.There I will give you my love.

4Love wisdom like a sister;make insight a beloved member of your family.

18Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses,

25Don’t let your hearts stray away toward her.Don’t wander down her wayward path.

3So many enemies against one man—all of them trying to kill me.To them I’m just a broken-down wallor a tottering fence.

8O my people, trust in him at all times.Pour out your heart to him,for God is our refuge. Interlude

12unfailing love, O Lord, is yours.Surely you repay all peopleaccording to what they have done.

25Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise!He is to be feared above all gods.

32Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy!

34Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!His faithful love endures forever.

1I am the one who has seen the afflictionsthat come from the rod of the Lord’s anger.

22The faithful love of the Lord never ends!3:22 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads of the Lord keeps us from destruction.His mercies never cease.

40Instead, let us test and examine our ways.Let us turn back to the Lord.

14And do everything with love.

20All the brothers and sisters here send greetings to you. Greet each other with a sacred kiss.

22If anyone does not love the Lord, that person is cursed. Our Lord, come!16:22 From Aramaic, Marana tha. Some manuscripts read Maran atha, "Our Lord has come."

2Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us5:2 Some manuscripts read loved you. and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.

8For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!

17Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.

13"To whom do you belong, and where do you come from?" David asked him."I am an Egyptian—the slave of an Amalekite," he replied. "My master abandoned me three days ago because I was sick.

28Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa,

30Hormah, Bor-ashan, Athach,

22Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

23Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

27Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,

7Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

8Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

9Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

13Then they moved out and camped on the far side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness adjacent to the territory of the Amorites. The Arnon is the boundary line between the Moabites and the Amorites.

17There the Israelites sang this song:"Spring up, O well!Yes, sing its praises!

29What sorrow awaits you, O people of Moab!You are finished, O worshipers of Chemosh!Chemosh has left his sons as refugees,his daughters as captives of Sihon, the Amorite king.

8who began to oppress them that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites east of the Jordan River in the land of the Amorites (that is, in Gilead).

11The Lord replied, "Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

14Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!"

7They trample helpless people in the dustand shove the oppressed out of the way.Both father and son sleep with the same woman,corrupting my holy name.

9"But as my people watched,I destroyed the Amorites,though they were as tall as cedarsand as strong as oaks.I destroyed the fruit on their branchesand dug out their roots.

10It was I who rescued you from Egyptand led you through the desert for forty years,so you could possess the land of the Amorites.

5Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, "Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!"

20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

8"Finally, I brought you into the land of the Amorites on the east side of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I destroyed them before you. I gave you victory over them, and you took possession of their land.

12And I sent terror24:12 Often rendered the hornet. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. ahead of you to drive out the two kings of the Amorites. It was not your swords or bows that brought you victory.

18It was the Lord who drove out the Amorites and the other nations living here in the land. So we, too, will serve the Lord, for he alone is our God."