⁴ I had scarcely passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me.

² I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, Who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

¹⁷ I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

¹¹ I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

¹² He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

²⁶ But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rhabbouni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

⁹ As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

⁷ "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

³ In the womb he took his brother by the heel; And in his manhood he had power with God.

⁴ Indeed, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

²⁵ Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

¹³ You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

⁶ Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

⁷ let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹ Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.

² Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

³ For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

¹⁴ But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

¹⁶ Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

¹⁷ Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

¹⁸ Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

⁵ Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.

¹² Without realizing it, My desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends

²⁶ The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."