love
You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.
I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.
Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: "This is what the LORD says: "’I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.
Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ’It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

