See in Reader
110 lines
2.5 KiB
Plaintext
110 lines
2.5 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\c 7
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 1 My son, keep my words
|
|
\q and store up my commands within yourself.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 2 Keep my commands and live
|
|
\q and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 3 Tie them on your fingers;
|
|
\q write them on the tablet of your heart.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"
|
|
\q and call understanding your kinsman,
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 5 in order to keep yourself from the adulterous woman,
|
|
\q from the immoral woman with her smooth words.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 6 At the window of my house
|
|
\q I was looking out through the lattice.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 7 I looked at the naive people,
|
|
\q and I noticed among the young men
|
|
\q a youth who had no sense.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 8 That young man passed down the street near her corner,
|
|
\q and he went toward her house.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 9 It was twilight, in the evening of the day,
|
|
\q at the time of night and darkness.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 10 There a woman met him,
|
|
\q dressed like a prostitute, with a false heart.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 11 She was loud and wayward;
|
|
\q her feet did not stay at home.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 12 Now in the streets, then in the market place,
|
|
\q and at every corner she waited in ambush.
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 13 So she grabbed him and kissed him,
|
|
\q with a strong face she said to him,
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 14 "I made my peace offering today,
|
|
\q I paid my vows,
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 15 so came I out to meet you,
|
|
\q to eagerly seek your face, and I have found you.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 16 I have spread coverings on my bed,
|
|
\q colored linens from Egypt.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 17 I have sprinkled my bed
|
|
\q with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 18 Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
|
|
\q let us take great pleasure in acts of love.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 19 For my husband is not at his house;
|
|
\q he has gone on a long journey.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 20 He took a bag of money with him;
|
|
\q he will return on the day of the full moon."
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 21 With much talk she turned him;
|
|
\q with her smooth lips she misled him.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 22 He went after her suddenly
|
|
\q like an ox going to slaughter,
|
|
\q like a deer caught in a trap, \f + \ft \fqa Deer\fqa* could be a stag or an antelope. The Vulgate has: \fqa lamb\fqa*. The LXX has: \fqa like a dog to the muzzle.\f*
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 23 until an arrow pierces through its liver.
|
|
\q He was like a bird rushing into a snare.
|
|
\q He did not know that it would cost his life.
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 24 Now, my sons, listen to me;
|
|
\q pay attention to the words of my mouth.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 25 May your heart not turn aside onto her paths;
|
|
\q do not be led astray onto her paths.
|
|
|
|
\s5
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 26 She has caused many people to fall down pierced;
|
|
\q her dead victims are very many.
|
|
\q
|
|
\v 27 Her house is on the paths to Sheol;
|
|
\q they go down to the dark bedrooms of death.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|