⁸ Taste ye and see that Jehovah `is' good, O the happiness of the man who trusteth in Him.

⁴ for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,

⁵ and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age,

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

³ if so be ye did taste that the Lord `is' gracious,

¹⁰³ How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

¹⁴ And satisfied the soul of the priests `with' fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ As `with' milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And `with' singing lips doth my mouth praise.

¹² Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

¹ That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

² and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --

³ that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship `is' with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

⁷ How precious `is' Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

¹² Jehovah of Hosts! O the happiness of a man trusting in Thee.

¹⁷ For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins -- make fruitful!

¹ To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God `is' all the day.

¹⁰ Draw out Thy kindness to those knowing Thee, And Thy righteousness to the upright of heart.

¹ I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

⁷ Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

⁸ he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

¹⁰ in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

³ As a citron among trees of the forest, So `is' my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit `is' sweet to my palate.