Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

A loving doe and a graceful deer -- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

In the light of the king's face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.

Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. Lover

I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved

Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.

Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! Beloved

"Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand."

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

"Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel."

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."

The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.

He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.