The princess is in the palace---how beautiful she is! Her gown is made of gold thread.

The kings of Spain and of the islands will offer him gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring him offerings.

Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number!

But I love only one, and she is as lovely as a dove. She is her mother's only daughter, her mother's favorite child. All women look at her and praise her; queens and concubines sing her praises.

What a magnificent young woman you are! How beautiful are your feet in sandals. The curve of your thighs is like the work of an artist.

Kings will be like fathers to you; queens will be like mothers. They will bow low before you and honor you; they will humbly show their respect for you. Then you will know that I am the LORD; no one who waits for my help will be disappointed."

The LORD says to Jerusalem, "Foreigners will rebuild your walls, And their kings will serve you. In my anger I punished you, But now I will show you my favor and mercy.

Day and night your gates will be open, So that the kings of the nations May bring you their wealth.

The peoples of the world will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it.

But you must not let him go unpunished. You know what to do, and you must see to it that he is put to death."

So Bathsheba went to the king to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. The king stood up to greet his mother and bowed to her. Then he sat on his throne and had another one brought in on which she sat at his right.

Come with me from the Lebanon Mountains, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Come down from the top of Mount Amana, from Mount Senir and Mount Hermon, where the lions and leopards live.

Your love delights me, my sweetheart and bride. Your love is better than wine; your perfume more fragrant than any spice.

The bridegroom is the one to whom the bride belongs; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens, is glad when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This is how my own happiness is made complete.

He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,

in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty---pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.

Let us rejoice and be glad; let us praise his greatness! For the time has come for the wedding of the Lamb, and his bride has prepared herself for it.

And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared and ready, like a bride dressed to meet her husband.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said, "Come, and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."

(Hiram's fleet, which had brought gold from Ophir, also brought from there a large amount of juniper wood and jewels.

Throw away your gold; dump your finest gold in the dry stream bed.