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posts a verse/section every six hours from my favorite book of the bible/tanakh. by @alice.bsky.sh translation: http://benwhitmore.altervista.org/song-solomon/ source: https://github.com/aliceisjustplaying/songofsongs-bot-bsky

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · Oct 31

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 7m

Come and see, O ye daughters of Zion: King Solomon in the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 6h

Thy bush is an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain enclosed, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 12h

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. As a piece of a pomegranate are thy cheeks within thy tresses.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 18h

Thine head crowns thee like Mount Carmel, and the hair of thine head like royal purple bound in tresses.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 1d

What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no blemish in thee.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 1d

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, lest ye rouse up or awaken my love, until she please.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 1d

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 2d

Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us go up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my affections.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 2d

His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 2d

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 2d

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.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 3d

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he appointed the vineyard unto keepers; each of whom for the fruit thereof was to bring in a thousand pieces of silver.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 3d

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 3d

Thy lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the odour of thy garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 3d

O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, concealed in the cliff, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; thy pleasant voice, and thy comely countenance.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 4d

Behold, thou art fair, my shepherdess! Behold, thou art fair! Thou hast doves’ eyes.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 4d

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? Behold his litter, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 4d

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; thou hast ravished my heart with one glance of thine eyes, with one necklace of thy neck.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 4d

Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 5d

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they bruised me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 5d

O that thou wert as my brother, that nursed at the breasts of my mother! When I should meet thee in the street, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be rebuffed.

song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 5d

While the king is in his chamber, my spikenard sendeth forth the fragrance he gave. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me; he lieth all night betwixt my breasts. My beloved is unto me as a spray of camphire blossom in the vineyards of En Gedi.

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 5d

Arise, come away, my shepherdess, my lovely, and come away!

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 6d

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death; jealousy as cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.