And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

Chief

there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).

Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

But

And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take them down to Egypt.

And they say one unto another, 'Verily we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'

Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;

The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with it do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with it do all the members;

Affliction

In the days of Pekah king of Israel hath Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur come, and taketh Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and removeth them to Asshur.

against him came up Shalmaneser king of Asshur, and Hoshea is to him a servant, and doth render to him a present.

Woe! for great is that day, without any like it, Yea, a time of adversity it is to Jacob, Yet out of it he is saved.

General references

and they mourn, and weep, and fast till the evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel, because they have fallen by the sword.

They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.

With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,

And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, And the voice of thy harps is heard no more.

for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink;

with oil my head thou didst not anoint, but this woman with ointment did anoint my feet;