“Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.

“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
Let us delight ourselves with caresses.

He has taken a bag of money with him,
At the full moon he will come home.”

“Come, eat of my food
And drink of the wine I have mixed.

What the wicked fears will come upon him,
But the desire of the righteous will be granted.

When pride comes, then comes dishonor,
But with the humble is wisdom.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor,
But he who seeks evil, evil will come to him.

The one who guards his mouth preserves his life;
The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Through insolence comes nothing but strife,
But wisdom is with those who receive counsel.

Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline,
But he who regards reproof will be honored.

Where no oxen are, the manger is clean,
But much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.

The fear of the Lord is the instruction for wisdom,
And before honor comes humility.

When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes,
And with dishonor comes scorn.

The first to plead his case seems right,
Until another comes and examines him.

A man of too many friends comes to ruin,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage,
But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty.

He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself
Or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

For their calamity will rise suddenly,
And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?

But to those who rebuke the wicked will be delight,
And a good blessing will come upon them.

Then your poverty will come as a robber
And your want like an armed man.

Take away the dross from the silver,
And there comes out a vessel for the smith;

For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince,
Whom your eyes have seen.

He who digs a pit will fall into it,
And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth
And does not know that want will come upon him.

Many seek the ruler’s favor,
But justice for man comes from the Lord.

A generation goes and a generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.

There is no remembrance of earlier things;
And also of the later things which will occur,
There will be for them no remembrance
Among those who will come later still.

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility.

So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done?

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

For he has come out of prison to become king, even though he was born poor in his kingdom.

There is no end to all the people, to all who were before them, and even the ones who will come later will not be happy with him, for this too is vanity and striving after wind.

For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

It is good that you grasp one thing and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them.

Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no delight in them”;

“My beloved responded and said to me,
‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along.

‘The fig tree has ripened its figs,
And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance.
Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along!’”

“Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.

“Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
May you come with me from Lebanon.
Journey down from the summit of Amana,
From the summit of Senir and Hermon,
From the dens of lions,
From the mountains of leopards.

“Awake, O north wind,
And come, wind of the south;
Make my garden breathe out fragrance,
Let its spices be wafted abroad.
May my beloved come into his garden
And eat its choice fruits!”

“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.”

“Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.

“Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”
“Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,
As at the dance of the two companies?

“Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country,
Let us spend the night in the villages.

“When you come to appear before Me,
Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?

“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.

Your rulers are rebels
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves a bribe
And chases after rewards.
They do not defend the orphan,
Nor does the widow’s plea come before them.

But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together,
And those who forsake the Lord will come to an end.

Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.

And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction;
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;
Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.

It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem.

“I will lay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;
And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near
And come to pass, that we may know it!”

He will also lift up a standard to the distant nation,
And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.

thus says the Lord God: “It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.

The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria.”

They will all come and settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes and on all the watering places.

And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.

Now what will you do in the day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your wealth?

He has come against Aiath,
He has passed through Migron;
At Michmash he deposited his baggage.

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Her fateful time also will soon come
And her days will not be prolonged.

“Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’

“Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come;
It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you,
Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a flying serpent.

“Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;
For smoke comes from the north,
And there is no straggler in his ranks.

“Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

So it will come about when Moab presents himself,
When he wearies himself upon his high place
And comes to his sanctuary to pray,
That he will not prevail.

The oracle concerning Egypt.
Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;
The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence,
And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.
As windstorms in the Negev sweep on,
It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

The watchman says,
“Morning comes but also night.
If you would inquire, inquire;
Come back again.”

Thus says the Lord God of hosts,
“Come, go to this steward,
To Shebna, who is in charge of the royal household,

“Then it will come about in that day,
That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

It will come about at the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms
And close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while
Until indignation runs its course.

For behold, the Lord is about to come out from His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
And the earth will reveal her bloodshed
And will no longer cover her slain.

In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

Then you will be brought low;
From the earth you will speak,
And from the dust where you are prostrate
Your words will come.
Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the ground,
And your speech will whisper from the dust.

For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished,
Indeed all who are intent on doing evil will be cut off;

The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev.
Through a land of distress and anguish,
From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys
And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who cannot profit them;

Now go, write it on a tablet before them
And inscribe it on a scroll,
That it may serve in the time to come
As a witness forever.

Therefore this iniquity will be to you
Like a breach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,

Behold, the name of the Lord comes from a remote place;
Burning is His anger and dense is His smoke;
His lips are filled with indignation
And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

Now the Egyptians are men and not God,
And their horses are flesh and not spirit;
So the Lord will stretch out His hand,
And he who helps will stumble
And he who is helped will fall,
And all of them will come to an end together.

For thus says the Lord to me,
“As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey,
Against which a band of shepherds is called out,
And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise,
So will the Lord of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill.”

Within a year and a few days
You will be troubled, O complacent daughters;
For the vintage is ended,
And the fruit gathering will not come.

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;
Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.