"Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.

My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.

Well-beloved

My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."

I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

Touching

In that day, "A pleasant vineyard,sing of it!

You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

General references

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.