The Creator to be remembered. Before CHRIST The preacher's care to edify. SOLOMON'S SONG. evil days come not, nor the years draw 7 Then shall the dust return to the Before ir. 977. nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no earth as it was: and the spirit shall reb See 2 Sam. pleasure in them; turn unto God who gave it. 19.35 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity. CHRIST cir. 977. f Gen. 3. 19 Job 34. 15. Ps. 90. 3g ch. 3. 21. Numb. 16. Job 34 14 Zech. 12. 1. 22. & 27. 16. Isai. 57. 16. i Ps. 62.9. ch. 1. 2. Or, the more wise 9 And ||moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. 10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was the preacher written was upright, even words of truth. wa 11 The words of the wise are as goads, 32 and as nails fastened by the masters of Heb. assemblies, which are given from one light. shepherd. k 1 Kings 4 words of de 1 ch. 1. 18. 12 And further, by these, my son, be 1 Or, road admonished: of making many books there ing. is no end; and 'much ||study is a weari- end of the ness of the flesh. | Or, The matter, even all that hath is. 13 Let us hear the conclusion of been heard, the whole matter: "Fear God, and keep m Dent. 6.2. his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. & 10. 12. u ch. 11. Matt. 12.3. Acts 17-30% 16. & 14. 10, 14 For God shall bring every work 31. Rom. 2. into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. 45. Cur. THE SONG OF SOLOMON. CHAP. I. 1 The church's love unto Christ. 5 She confesseth her deformity, 7 and prayeth to be directed to his flock. 8 Christ directeth her to the shepherds' tents: 9 and shewing his love to her, 11 giveth her gracious promises. 12 The church and Christ congratulate one another. THE "song of songs, which is Solomon's. THE C 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of b ch.4. 10. his mouth: for thy love is better than Heb. thy loves. c Hos. 11. 4. John 6. 44. & 12.32. wine. 3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. 4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chamd Phil. 3. 12, bers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, e.Ps. 45. 14, we will remember thy love more than 2. Ephes. 2. wine: the upright love thee. 13. 14. 15. John 14. 6. ! Or, they Love thee up rightly. 5¶ I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 7 T Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why 12. 1 Cor. 5. 10. Christ and his church. Before CHRIST CHAP. III. IV. The graces of the church. 2 As the lily among thorns, so is my | them, but I found him whom my soul cir. 1014. love among the daughters. loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the Heb. I de sons. +I sat down under his shadow sat down, &c. with great delight, and his fruit was a Rev. 22. 1, sweet to my taste. 9. lighted and + Heb. palate. of wine. 4 He brought me to the + banqueting + Heb. house house, and his banner over me was love. 5 Stay me with flagons, † comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. + Heb. straw me with apples. b ch. 8.3. + Heb. 1 adjure you. e ch. 3-548.4 d ver. 17. Tishing. e ver. 13. f ver. 10. 7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. 8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. 10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. 'Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. 14 TO my dove, that art the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, z ch. 8. 13. 6 let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 15 Take us the foxes, the little Luke 13 32. foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. à Ps. 80. 13. F.zek. 13.4. i ch. 6. 3. & 7. 10. 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. 17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains || of Bether. CHAP. III. 1 The church's fight and victory in temptation. 6 The church glorieth in Christ. BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from Before CHRIST eir. 1014. 8.4. 5 I charge you, O ye daughters of & 27 Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. 6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? 7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. 8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. d ch. 8. 5. 9 King Solomon made himself || a ↑ Or, a bed. chariot of the wood of Lebanon. 10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. 11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. CHAP. IV. 1 Christ setteth forth the graces of the church. 8 He sheweth his love to her. 16 The church prayeth to be made fit for his presence. Before Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' cir. 1044 dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 9 Thou hast || ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. Or, taken away my heart. 1 ch. 1.2. m Prov. 24. The church's faith in Christ. wounded me; the keepers of the walls 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jeru- Before CHRIST cir. 1014. + Heb. what. 9 What is thy beloved more than 10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my another beloved, "O thou fairest among wo- 8 ch. 1.8. spouse! 1how much better is thy love men? what is thy beloved more than anothan wine! and the smell of thine oint-ther beloved, that thou dost so charge us? ments than all spices! 11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the 13, 14. ch.5. honeycomb: "honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is "like the smell of Lebanon. 1. n Gen. 27. 12 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomeOrcs, granates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, ch. 1. 14. & 7.38. 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of John 4.10. living waters, and streams from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. p ch. 5. 1. a ch. 4. 16. b ch. 4. 11. e Luke 15. 7, 10. John 3 29. & 15. 14 Or, and be drunken with loves. d Rev. 3. 20. CHAP. V. 1 Christ awaketh the church with his calling. I'AM come into my garden, my 2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were some read) moved || for him." 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that went about the city, found me, they smote me, they 3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved bch. 2. 16. is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. 4 ¶ Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. 7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. 8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins with OW beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, + Heb. mix which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. bch. 4-5 e ch. 4. 4. 10r, crim + Heb. bound. 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. 5 Thine head upon thee is like || Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips ||of those Or, of the that are asleep to speak. + Heb. straightly. ancient. d ch. 2. 16. 8 6.3. < Ps. 45 11. fch. 6, 11. 10 I am my beloved's, and "his desire is toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, + Heb. open. whether the tender grape tappear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. Gen. 30. 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and Matt. 13. at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. CHAP. VIII. The vehemency of love. 1 The love of the church to Christ. 6 The vehemency of love. 8 The calling of the Gentiles. 14 The church prayeth for Christ's coming. Before CHRIST cir. 1014. THAT thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, †I should not be + Heb. they despised. 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. a 3 b should not despise me. a Prov. 9. 2. His left hand should be under b ch. 2. 6. my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, † that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. 5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought_thee forth; there she brought thee forth that bare thee. e ch. 2. 7. & 3.5+ why stir up, or, why, &c. Heb.w a ch.3.6. Jer. 22. 24. 6 ¶ Set me as a seal upon thine e Isai. 49. 16. heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for Hag.2.23. love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof +Heb. hard. are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a fProv. 6. 35man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto h Matt. 21. keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. 14 ¶ *+Make haste, my beloved, and 'be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. Before CHRIST cir. 760. a Numb. 12. 6. b Deut. 32. 1. Jer. 2. 12. 29. Ezek. 36. THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. assemblies, I cannot away with; it is quity, even the solemn meeting. u Numb. 28. 11. &c. Lam 2.6. y ch.43 24 Job 27. 29 Prov. 1.25. Jer. 14. 12 Ps. 134 2. ch. 14 Your "new moons and your ap- 1 Or, grief. pointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me;' I am weary to bear them. x Lev. 23. ?, 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: "yea, when yet make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 ¶ Wash you, make clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, bch. s. 3 relieve the oppressed, judge the father-Heb less, plead for the widow. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O||| &6 19. & earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have 4. Mic. 1.2. nourished and brought up children, and ech.5.1,2 they have rebelled against me. & 6. 1, 2. d The ox knoweth his owner, and e Jer. 9.3,6. the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people 'doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people +laden Ech. 57.3,4 with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are †gone away backward. Matt. 3. 7. + Heb. alienated, or, separated, Ps. 58. 3. h 5 Why should ye be stricken any h ch.9. 13. more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole Heb. in heart faint. Jer. 2. 39. & 5-3 crease revolt. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: i i Jer. 8. 22. they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with || ointment. ! Or, oil. k Deut. 28. 51, 52. + Heb. as the 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and overthrow of it is desolate, tas overthrown by strangers. strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left 1as Lam. 2. 6. a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a m Jer. 4.17. garden of cucumbers, as a besieged 1 Job 27. 18. n Lam. 3. 22. Rom. 9. 23. city. 9 "Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a ve very small remnant, we should Gen. 19.24. have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye 32. Ezek. 16. rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law q 1 Sam. 15. of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 22. Ps. 50. 8, 11 To what purpose is the multitude Prov. 15.8. of your sacrifices unto me? saith the 66.3. Jer. 6. LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of Amos 5. 21, rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I 22. Mic. 6. 7. delight not in the blood of bullocks, or Heb. great of lambs, or of the goats. |