¹⁴ She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.

³⁰ Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?

¹ And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.

² And a voice from heaven came to my ears, like the sound of great waters, and the sound of loud thunder: and the voice which came to me was like the sound of players, playing on instruments of music.

³ And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.

⁴ These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

² For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

²⁴ Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

¹³ You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

¹³ Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.

⁸ There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.

¹ Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

⁸ I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

⁹ What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

⁷ I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

³ Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

⁴ Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

⁵ I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

³⁹ The coat is to be made of the best linen, worked in squares; and you are to make a head-dress of linen, and a linen band worked in needlework.