My mouth shall speak the praise of LORD. And let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Praise ye him, sun and moon. Praise him, all ye stars of light.

Let them praise the name of LORD. For he commanded, and they were created.

Let them praise the name of LORD, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made him. Let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises to him with timbrel and harp.

Let the sanctified exult in glory. Let them sing for joy upon their beds,

Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with high sounding cymbals.

Let everything that has breath praise LORD. Praise ye LORD.

If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

Thou shall cast thy lot among us. We will all have one bag.

My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,

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

And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom. I have led thee in paths of uprightness.

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

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

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

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Make the path of thy feet level, and let all thy ways be established.

Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

When thou walk, it shall lead thee. When thou sleep, it shall watch over thee. And when thou awake, it shall talk with thee.

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

Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.

She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.

Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.

He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

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

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news make the bones fat.

In the light of the king's countenance is life, and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of LORD.

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

The lot causes contentions to cease, and decides between the mighty.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falls, and let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown,

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

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be considered a curse to him.

A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.

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

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

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

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth. Therefore let thy words be few.

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. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.

Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.

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

Yea, 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, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgmen

before the sun, and the light, and 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 thy love is better than wine.

O my dove, who are in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the steep place, let me see thy countenance; let me hear thy voice. For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

It was but a little that I 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, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

I said, I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of the branches of it. Let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy breath like apples,

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

Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give thee my love.

The mandrakes give forth fragrance. And at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon. He let out the vineyard to keepers. Every one for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver.

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

And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, 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 shall go forth the law, and th

O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of LORD.

When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou have clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand,

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

And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.

Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

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!

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if [a man] looks to the land, behold, darkness [and] distress, and the light is darkened in the clouds of it.

And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet. Fear not, nor let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach in it for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel,

LORD of hosts, him ye shall sanctify, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shone.

For those who lead this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

And 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.

And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

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

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

Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou are laid low, no hewer has come up against us.

How thou are fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How thou are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?

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.

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, they shall carry away over the brook of the willows.

Let my outcasts dwell with thee. As for Moab, be thou a covert to 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 eventide, behold, terror, [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

Where then are thy wise men? And let them tell thee now, and let them know what LORD of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.

so shall the king of Assyria 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 thus has LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

And, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim.

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.