Bible Reading and Study
October 26
The World English Bible
Oct.
26
Song
of Solomon 7, 8
Son
7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your
rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful
workman.
Son
7:2 Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your
waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
Son
7:3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
Son
7:4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools
in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of
Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
Son
7:5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like
purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
Son
7:6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
Son
7:7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its
fruit.
Son
7:8 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
Son
7:9 Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my
beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
Son
7:10 I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.
Son
7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge
in the villages.
Son
7:12 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.
Son
7:13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds
of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my
beloved.
Son
8:1 Oh that you were like my brother, who sucked the breasts of my
mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one
would despise me.
Son
8:2 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.
Son
8:3 His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would
embrace me.
Son
8:4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor
awaken love, until it so desires. Friends
Son
8:5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her
beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother
conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
Son
8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love
is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are
flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
Son
8:7 Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a
man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be
utterly scorned. Friends
Son
8:8 We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do
for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?
Son
8:9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if
she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved
Son
8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes
like one who found peace.
Son
8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the
vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver
for its fruit.
Son
8:12 My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you,
Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover
Son
8:13 You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let
me hear your voice! Beloved
Son
8:14 Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the
mountains of spices!
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perspectives and different levels of literalcy. First, read the
World English Bible (the least literal-black
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for comprehension of the text. Next, read both the World English
Bible with the Darby Translation (more literal-blue
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make comparisons and lastly, read all three versions (Young's is the
most literal translation-
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at one time to obtain an overview of the text. Doing this will make
you think about what
the
Scriptures are actually saying and avoid reading in a superficial
manner.
Song
of Solomon
Song
of Solomon 7 1
How
beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince`s daughter! Your
rounded thighs are like
jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
How
beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince`s daughter! The
roundings of thy
thighs
are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.
As
the chorus of `Mahanaim.` How beautiful were thy feet with sandals,
O
daughter
of Nadib. The turnings of thy sides [are] as ornaments, Work of the
hands
of an artificer.
Song
of Solomon 7 2
Your
body is like a round goblet, No mingled wine is wanting. Your
waist is like a heap of
wheat,
Set about with lilies.
Thy
navel is a round goblet, [which] wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a
heap of wheat,
set
about with lilies;
Thy
waist [is] a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy
body a heap of
wheat,
fenced with lilies,
Song
of Solomon 7 3
Your
two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe.
Thy
two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;
Thy
two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe,
Song of
Solomon 7 4
Your
neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in
Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim;
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward
Damascus.
Thy
neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, [like] the pools in
Heshbon, By the gate of
Bath-rabbim;
Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;
Thy
neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the
gate of
Bath-Rabbim,
Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus,
Song
of Solomon 7 5
Your
head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple;
The king is held captive
in
its tresses.
Thy
head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like
purple; The king is
fettered
by [thy] ringlets!
Thy
head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The
king is
bound
with the flowings!
Song
of Solomon 7 6
How
beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
How
fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights!
How
fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.
Song
of Solomon 7 7
This,
your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
This
thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape
clusters.
This
thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.
Song
of Solomon 7 8
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
I
said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs
thereof; And thy breasts
shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy
nose like apples,
I
said, `Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea,
let thy breasts
be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy
face as citrons,
Song
of Solomon 7 9
Your
mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved,
Gliding through the lips
of those who are asleep.
And
the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down
smoothly for my beloved,
And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.
And
thy palate as the good wine --` Flowing to my beloved in
uprightness,
Strengthening
the lips of the aged!
Song of
Solomon 7 10
I
am my beloved`s. His desire is toward me.
I
am my beloved`s, And his desire is toward me.
I
[am] my beloved`s, and on me [is] his desire.
Song
of Solomon 7 11
Come,
my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the
villages.
--
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in
the villages.
Come,
my beloved, we go forth to the field,
Song
of Solomon 7 12
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.
We
will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath
budded, [If] the blossom
is
opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee
my loves.
We
lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the
vine hath
flourished,
The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have
blossomed,
There do I give to thee my loves;
Song
of Solomon 7 13
The
mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of
precious fruits, new and old, Which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
The
mandrakes yield fragrance; And at our gates are all choice fruits,
new and old: I have
laid them up for thee, my beloved.
The
mandrakes have given fragrance, And at our openings all pleasant
things,
New,
yea, old, my beloved, I laid up for thee!
Song
of Solomon 8 1
Oh
that you were like my brother, Who sucked the breasts of my
mother! If I found you outside, I
would kiss you; Yes, and no one would despise me.
Oh
that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother!
Should I find
thee
without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me.
Who
doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother?
I find
thee
without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,
Song
of Solomon 8 2
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.
I
would lead thee, bring thee into my mother`s house; Thou wouldest
instruct me: I would
cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.
I
lead thee, I bring thee in unto my mother`s house, She doth teach
me, I cause
thee
to drink of the perfumed wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate,
Song of
Solomon 8 3
His
left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.
His
left hand would be under my head, And his right hand embrace me.
His
left hand [is] under my head, And his right doth embrace me.
Song
of Solomon 8 4
I
adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, That you not stir up, nor
awaken love, Until it so
desires.
Friends
I
charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, ... Why should ye stir up, why
awake [my] love, till
he
please?
I
have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye
wake the
love
till she please!
Song
of Solomon 8 5
Who
is this who comes up from the wilderness, Leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in
labor and bore you.
Who
is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her
beloved? I awoke thee
under
the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she
brought thee forth
[that]
bore thee.
Who
[is] this coming from the wilderness, Hasting herself for her
beloved? Under
the
citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee,
There she
gave
a pledge [that] bare thee.
Song
of Solomon 8 6
Set
me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is
strong as death. Jealousy is
as
cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame
of Yahweh.
Set
me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is
strong as death;
Jealousy
is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames
of Jah.
Set
me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as
death is love,
Sharp
as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings [are] burnings of fire, a flame
of Jah!
Song
of Solomon 8 7
Many
waters can`t quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man
would give all the wealth of
his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends
Many
waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it: Even if a
man gave all
the
substance of his house for love, It would utterly be contemned.
Many
waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it
away. If one
give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down -- they
tread upon it.
Song of
Solomon 8 8
We
have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our
sister In the day when she is
to be spoken for?
We
have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for
our sister In the day
when
she shall be spoken for? --
We
have a little sister, and breasts she hath not, What do we do for
our sister, In
the
day that it is told of her?
Song
of Solomon 8 9
If
she is a wall, We will build on her a turret of silver. If she is
a door, We will enclose her
with
boards of cedar. Beloved
If
she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver; And if she
be a door, We will
enclose
her with boards of cedar.
If
she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a
door, We fashion
by
her board-work of cedar.
Song
of Solomon 8 10
I
am a wall, and my breasts like towers, Then I was in his eyes like
one who found peace.
I
am a wall, and my breasts like towers; Then was I in his eyes as one
that findeth peace.
I
[am] a wall, and my breasts as towers, Then I have been in his eyes
as one finding peace.
Song
of Solomon 8 11
Solomon
had a vineyard at Baal-hamon. He leased out the vineyard to
keepers. Each was to
bring
a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
Solomon
had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers;
Every one
for
the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.
Solomon
hath a vineyard in Baal-Hamon, He hath given the vineyard to
keepers,
Each
bringeth for its fruit a thousand silverlings;
Song
of Solomon 8 12
My
own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon;
Two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover
My
vineyard, which is mine, is before me: The thousand [silver-pieces]
be to thee,
Solomon;
And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred.
My
vineyard -- my own -- is before me, The thousand [is] for thee, O
Solomon. And
the
two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!
Song
of Solomon 8 13
You
who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, Let me hear
your voice! Beloved
Thou
that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken to thy voice:
Let me hear [it].
The
companions are attending to thy voice, Cause me to hear. Flee, my
beloved,
and
be like to a roe,
Song of
Solomon 8 14
Come
away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the
mountains of spices!
Haste,
my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the
mountains of spices.
Or
to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!
Study Questions
Who did Solomon want to return? 6:13 Jealousy is _________________________? 8:6
The World English Bible
Oct. 26
1 Thessalonians 3
1Th 3:1 Therefore, when
we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind
at Athens alone,
1Th 3:2 and sent
Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Good News of Christ, to
establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
1Th 3:3 that no one be
moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to
this task.
1Th 3:4 For most
certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are
to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
1Th 3:5 For this cause
I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know
your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you,
and our labor would have been in vain.
1Th 3:6 But when
Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of
your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always,
longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;
1Th 3:7 for this cause,
brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and
affliction through your faith.
1Th 3:8 For now we
live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
1Th 3:9 For what
thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with
which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
1Th 3:10 night and day
praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that
which is lacking in your faith?
1Th 3:11 Now may our
God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to
you;
1Th 3:12 and the Lord
make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and
toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
1Th 3:13 to the end he
may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and
Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
The
Composite
Bible
The
World English Bible
Darby's
Translation
Young's
Literal Translation
The
Composite
Bible
is
a effort to understand the Bible by considering it from different
perspectives and different levels of literalcy. First, read the
World English Bible (the least literal-black
text)
for comprehension of the text. Next, read both the World English
Bible with the Darby Translation (more literal-blue
text)to
make comparisons and lastly, read all three versions (Young's is the
most literal translation-
red text)
at one time to obtain an overview of the text. Doing this will make
you think about what
the
Scriptures are actually saying and avoid reading in a superficial
manner.
1
Thessalonians
1
Thessalonians 3 1
Therefore,
when we couldn`t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left
behind at Athens alone,
Wherefore,
being no longer able to refrain ourselves, we thought good to be
left alone in
Athens,
Wherefore
no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,
1
Thessalonians 3 2
and
sent Timothy, our brother and God`s servant in the gospel of Christ,
to establish you, and to comfort
you concerning your faith;
and
sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God in the glad
tidings of
Christ,
to confirm you and encourage [you] concerning your faith,
and
did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our
fellow-
workman
in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort
you
concerning
your faith,
1
Thessalonians 3 3
that
no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are
appointed to this task.
that
no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For yourselves know
that we are set for this;
that
no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known
that for this
we are set,
1
Thessalonians 3 4
For
most assuredly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we
are to suffer
affliction,
even as it happened, and you know.
for
also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to
be in
tribulation,
even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)
for
even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are
about to
suffer
tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known [it];
1
Thessalonians 3 5
For
this cause I also, when I couldn`t stand it any longer, sent that I
might know your faith, for fear
that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would
have been in vain.
For
this reason *I* also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know
your faith, lest
perhaps
the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to
nothing.
because
of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith,
lest he
who
is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.
1
Thessalonians 3 6
But
when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news
of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even
as we also long to see you;
But
Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the
glad tidings of
your
faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us,
desiring much to
see
us, even as we also you;
And
now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good
news
to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of
us
always,
desiring much to see us, as we also [to see] you,
1
Thessalonians 3 7
for
this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress
and affliction through your
faith.
for
this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our
distress and
tribulation,
through your faith,
because
of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our
tribulation and
necessity,
through your faith,
1
Thessalonians 3 8
For
now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
because
now we live if *ye* stand firm in [the] Lord.
because
now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;
1
Thessalonians 3 9
For
what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy
with which we rejoice for
your sakes before our God;
For
what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy
wherewith we rejoice
on
account of you before our God,
for
what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the
joy with
which
we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?
1
Thessalonians 3 10
night
and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may
perfect that which is lacking
in your faith?
night
and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may see your face,
and perfect
what
is lacking in your faith?
night
and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and
perfect
the
things lacking in your faith.
1
Thessalonians 3 11
Now
may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our
way to you;
But
our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to
you.
And
our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our
way unto you,
1
Thessalonians 3 12
and
the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another,
and toward all men, even
as we also do toward you,
But
you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one
another, and toward
all, even as we also towards you,
and
you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one
another, and to
all, even as we also to you,
1
Thessalonians 3 13
to
the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our
God and Father, at the coming
of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
in
order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before
our God and
Father
at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
to
the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our
God and
Father,
in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
Study Questions
What should they overflow (abound) in? 3:12
