¹ I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.

¹³ His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

¹ The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

² It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.

⁵ I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

¹¹ Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

¹⁶ My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

³ I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.