“Now therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

For the choir director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
My heart overflows with a good theme;
I address my verses to the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

A Psalm of David.
I will sing of lovingkindness and justice,
To You, O Lord, I will sing praises.

Well-beloved

“

My beloved is mine, and I am his;

He pastures his flock among the lilies.

“I was asleep but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,

My dove, my perfect one!

For my head is drenched with dew,
My locks with the damp of the night.’

“I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,
He who pastures his flock among the lilies.”

Touching

In that day,
“A

vineyard of wine, sing of it!

You removed a vine from Egypt;
You drove out the nations and planted it.

“Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers.
Each one was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

“Yet I planted you a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a

vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower

, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a

wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower

, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

And He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

General references

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘As 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;