September 22: Song of Solomon 4–5; 2 Corinthians 13

Morning: Song of Solomon 4–5 Song of Solomon 4–5 (Listen) Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty He 4   Behold, you are beautiful, my love,<br />    behold, you are beautiful!<br />  Your eyes are doves<br />    behind your veil.<br />  Your hair is like a flock of goats<br />    leaping down the slopes of Gilead.<br />2   Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes<br />    that have come up from the washing,<br />  all of which bear twins,<br />    and not one among them has lost its young.<br />3   Your lips are like a scarlet thread,<br />    and your mouth is lovely.<br />  Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate<br />    behind your veil.<br />4   Your neck is like the tower of David,<br />    built in rows of stone;1<br />  on it hang a thousand shields,<br />    all of them shields of warriors.<br />5   Your two breasts are like two fawns,<br />    twins of a gazelle,<br />    that graze among the lilies.<br />