For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the Lord; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work.

‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

And cried

Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Wisdom shouts in the street,

She lifts her voice in the square;

Does not wisdom call,
And understanding lift up her voice?

She has sent out her maidens, she calls
From the tops of the heights of the city:

“Speak kindly to Jerusalem;
And call out to her, that her

warfare has ended,

That her

iniquity has been removed,

That she has received of the Lord’s hand

Double for all her sins.”

“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk

Without money and without cost.

“Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“I remember concerning you the

devotion of your youth,

The love of your betrothals,

Your following after Me in the wilderness,

Through a land not sown.

The voice of the Lord will call to the city—
And it is sound wisdom to fear Your name:
“Hear, O tribe. Who has appointed its time?

For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said,
“The voice of one

crying in the wilderness,

‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight!’”

If

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and

appear before God?

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

I stretch out my hands to You;
My soul longs for You, as a parched land.

Selah.

Therefore you will joyously draw water
From the springs of salvation.

“The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the Lord, will answer them Myself,
As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land
And streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring
And My blessing on your descendants;

“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk

Without money and without cost.

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather for hearing the words of the Lord.

Then He said to me, “

It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.

Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Let

and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

“Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the faithful mercies shown to David.

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and

things of no profit.”

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

Drink

For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

“I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;
I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam.
I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;
I have drunk my wine and my milk.
Eat, friends;
Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

The Lord of hosts will defend them.

And they will devour and trample on the sling stones;
And they will drink and be boisterous as with wine;
And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin,
Drenched like the corners of the altar.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

For

by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

General references

He split the rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

Does not wisdom call,
And understanding lift up her voice?

and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.