Then she said, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me also springs of water.

Luke 23:28-31 NIV - Jesus turned and said to them, - Bible

Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon. The bride, the Lamb's wife," sees the beauty of the Lord reflected in herself, and rejoices in her own attractions for his sake. So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.Look, the days are coming when they will say, The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate! Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.

Daughter of Zion! Shout in Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in

Behold, your King comes to you, righteous and The Savior, and he is meek and rides on a donkey, and upon a colt, son of a donkey! Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

The features have already been described, and chek, palate, is used of the organ of speech and speech itself ( Job 6:30; Proverbs 5:3). Within the eschatology of the Synoptics, Jesus is here implying a divine judgment will come within that generation, which he likens to a dry tree, which will go up in flames. I am black and beautiful, Daughters of Jerusalem — Like the tents of Qedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Those who desire to find an allegorical interpretation think there is an evident allusion here to the sojourn of Israel in the wilderness, or the admission of the Gentiles into the covenant; but there is no reason for any such strain upon the meaning.

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My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected. For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never did bear, and breasts that never nursed. The entire book of the Song of Solomon is a love poem between a man and a woman, with erotic phrases. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. The time is coming when people will say, 'Blessed are the women who couldn't get pregnant, who couldn't give birth, and who couldn't nurse a child.And Caleb said, “The one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will even give him my daughter Achsah for a wife. However, he would not listen to her; since he was stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have never nursed. But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.