⁹ My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

² I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

¹⁴ O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

⁹ And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels in which were the seven last punishments, came and said to me, Come here, and see the bride, the Lamb's wife.

¹⁰ And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

¹⁰ At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.

³ Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

⁵ One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁶ One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

²⁸ Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

²⁹ Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.

² Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

⁹ Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

²⁹ Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

⁶ So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

⁷ For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

⁹ From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

¹³ And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.