¹⁰ I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

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

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

¹¹ So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

²⁰ I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

¹⁹ Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

²⁰ For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

²³ For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,

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.

⁵ Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.

⁶ How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

¹¹ The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.

¹⁵ At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.