Figs are beginning to ripen; the air is fragrant with blossoming vines. Come then, my love; my darling, come with me.

Come, darling, let's go out to the countryside and spend the night in the villages.

Bride of the king, listen to what I say--- forget your people and your relatives.

Leave the company of ignorant people, and live. Follow the way of knowledge."

Whoever wants to serve me must follow me, so that my servant will be with me where I am. And my Father will honor anyone who serves me.

You have been raised to life with Christ, so set your hearts on the things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on his throne at the right side of God.

Keep your minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth.

Let me cross the Jordan River, LORD, and see the fertile land on the other side, the beautiful hill country and the Lebanon Mountains.'

(Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and Senir by the Amorites.)

The people of Israel had already conquered and occupied the land east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley up the Jordan Valley and as far north as Mount Hermon. They defeated two kings.

God is known in Judah; his name is honored in Israel.

How glorious you are, O God! How majestic, as you return from the mountains where you defeated your foes.