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@songofsongsbot.bsky.social
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posts a verse/section every six hours from my favorite book of the bible/tanakh. by @alice.bsky.sh translation: benwhitmore.altervista.org/song-sol… source: github.com/aliceisjustplaying/songo…

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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 7h
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 13h
As the apricot tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. In his shadow I sat with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 19h
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who is this that cometh up from the pasture, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth, she that bore thee.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my shepherdess, my lovely one, and come away.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How beautiful are thy nipples, my sister, my bride! Thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the scent of thy perfume surpasseth all spices!
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. Because of the fragrance of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the maidens love thee.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Look at you, my lovely shepherdess; Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy tresses: thy hair is as a flock of goats descending from mount Gilead.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; thou hast ravished my heart with one glance of thine eyes, with one necklace of thy neck.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: thus did I find favour in his eyes.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The mandrakes give a fragrance, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and stored up, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They all hold swords, experts in war: every man hath his sword at his thigh against fear in the nights.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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? If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thy lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the odour of thy garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no blemish in thee.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The voice of my beloved! behold, it cometh leaping over the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved! Yea, pleasant! Yea, our bed is fresh; the beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters are of fir.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. As a piece of a pomegranate are thy cheeks within thy tresses.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The watchmen that go about the city found me: Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? I had barely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of my conception.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have compared thee, O my love, to my mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. Thy cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, thy neck with threaded beads. We will make thee bead-rows of gold with studs of silver.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While the king is in his chamber, my spikenard sendeth forth the fragrance he gave. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me; he lieth all night betwixt my breasts. My beloved is unto me as a spray of camphire blossom in the vineyards of En Gedi.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death; jealousy as cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it: if a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As the lily among thorns, so is my shepherdess among the daughters.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apricots: for I am lovesick. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he appointed the vineyard unto keepers; each of whom for the fruit thereof was to bring in a thousand pieces of silver.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I said, I will climb the palm tree, I will take hold of its boughs. Let now thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, the fragrance of thy breath like apples, And the taste of you like the best wine that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of the slumbering to murmur.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thy lips are like a cord of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy cheeks are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy tresses.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till she pleases.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
King Solomon himself hath made the palanquin of the wood of Lebanon; The columns thereof of he made of silver, the base of gold, his riding seat purple; the midst overflowing with the love of the daughters of Jerusalem.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Come and see, O ye daughters of Zion: King Solomon in the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither hast thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Before I was even aware, my soul commanded me like the chariots of my nobles: Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were, the dance of battling armies.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For, lo! the winter, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of pruning is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the blossom of the vines give their scent.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines and the blossom of the vineyards.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
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song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
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