love

We know that we have come to know and believe that God loves us. God is love; whoever dwells in love dwells in God, and God dwells in them.

I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem: do not awaken or stir up love until it is ready!

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds’ tents.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.

Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.