Asleep on my bed, night after night I dreamed of the one I love; I was looking for him, but couldn't find him.

and your mouth like the finest wine. Then let the wine flow straight to my lover, flowing over his lips and teeth.

While he was talking, I fell to the ground unconscious. But he took hold of me, raised me to my feet,

The angel who had been speaking to me came again and roused me as if I had been sleeping.

while the wise ones took containers full of oil for their lamps.

The bridegroom was late in coming, so they began to nod and fall asleep.

Then he returned to the three disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "How is it that you three were not able to keep watch with me for even one hour?

Keep watch and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Peter and his companions were sound asleep, but they woke up and saw Jesus' glory and the two men who were standing with him.

for anything that is clearly revealed becomes light. That is why it is said, "Wake up, sleeper, and rise from death, and Christ will shine on you."

I hear my lover's voice. He comes running over the mountains, racing across the hills to me.

My lover speaks to me. Come then, my love; my darling, come with me.

When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

Listen! I stand at the door and knock; if any hear my voice and open the door, I will come into their house and eat with them, and they will eat with me.

Fling wide the gates, open the ancient doors, and the great king will come in.

Fling wide the gates, open the ancient doors, and the great king will come in.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Open your mouth, and I will feed you.

Pay close attention, son, and let my life be your example.

You are like a dove that hides in the crevice of a rock. Let me see your lovely face and hear your enchanting voice.

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.

Happy are those whose lives are faultless, who live according to the law of the LORD.

But a few of you there in Sardis have kept your clothes clean. You will walk with me, clothed in white, because you are worthy to do so.

They are the men who have kept themselves pure by not having sexual relations with women; they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from the rest of the human race and are the first ones to be offered to God and to the Lamb.

Water cannot put it out; no flood can drown it. But if any tried to buy love with their wealth, contempt is all they would get.

Jacob worked seven years so that he could have Rachel, and the time seemed like only a few days to him, because he loved her.

Many times I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was not able to sleep.

It was like that for the whole twenty years I was with you. For fourteen years I worked to win your two daughters---and six years for your flocks. And even then, you changed my wages ten times.

I bared my back to those who beat me. I did not stop them when they insulted me, when they pulled out the hairs of my beard and spit in my face.

Many people were shocked when they saw him; he was so disfigured that he hardly looked human.

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--- we ignored him as if he were nothing.

But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received.

He did this to make come true what the prophet Isaiah had said, "He himself took our sickness and carried away our diseases."

I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and you received me in your homes,

The righteous will then answer him, 'When, Lord, did we ever see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink?

When did we ever see you sick or in prison, and visit you?'

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!

I was a stranger but you would not welcome me in your homes, naked but you would not clothe me; I was sick and in prison but you would not take care of me.'

The King will reply, 'I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.'

Very early the next morning, long before daylight, Jesus got up and left the house. He went out of town to a lonely place, where he prayed.

At that time Jesus went up a hill to pray and spent the whole night there praying to God.

In great anguish he prayed even more fervently; his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.

He died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but only for him who died and was raised to life for their sake.

so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.