Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Go," so the young girl went and called the child's mother.

"Suppose a man marries a wife, but after having sexual relations with her, he despises her,

"If a man meets a young virgin lady in the city who is engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her,

The king replied, "Go find out whose son the young man is."

But if I say this to the young man: "Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go, for the LORD has sent you away.

"This is what the LORD has spoken against him: "She despises and mocks you, this virgin daughter of Zion! Behind your back she shakes her head, this daughter of Jerusalem!

The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.

There are sixty queens and eighty mistresses, and too many young women to count,

"Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign. Watch! The virgin is conceiving a child, and will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.

"Come down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a chair, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and attractive.

"Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "Ask the nations. Who has ever heard of anything like this? You have done a most horrible thing, virgin Israel.

Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you.

What can be said about you? To what should you be compared, fair Jerusalem? To what may I liken you, so I may comfort you, fair one of Zion? Indeed, your wound is as deep as the sea who can heal you?

"Grieve like a virgin, who, dressed in her mourner's clothes, cries out in memory of the man she was going to marry.

Fallen is Israel the virgin never to rise again! She is abandoned on her own land, with no one to raise her up.'

"See, a virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel,"

He had four unmarried daughters who could prophesy.

I am jealous of you with God's own jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Messiah.

They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among humanity as the first fruits for God and the lamb.