Sheba VIII

Queen of Sheba 

The song of songs,

which is Solomon's

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

Because of the sav I  our of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will 
remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones ah burned with heat. My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.

We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

After An and Enlil had turned over the Kingship of Ur to Nanna, at that time did Ur-Nammu, son born of Ninsun,

for his beloved mother who bore him,

in accordance with his principles of equity and truth... Then did Ur-Nammu the mighty warrior, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, by the might of Nanna, lord of the city, and in accordance with the true word of Utu, establish equity in the land; he banished malediction, violence and strife, and set the monthly Temple expenses at 90 gur of barley, 30 sheep, and 30 sila of butter.

A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

And when the queen of Sheba

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

And Solomon told her all her questions:

there was not any thing hid from the king,

which he told her not.

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,

And the meat of his table,

and the sitting of his servants,

and the attendance of his ministers,

and their apparel,

and his cupbearers,

and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord;

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

there w-as no more spirit in her.

And she said to the king,

It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

And God saw the light, that it was good:

Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine

eyes had seen it:

And when the woman saw that the tree w-as good for food,

and that it w-as pleasant to the eyes,

and a tree to be desired to make one wise,

she took of the fruit thereof,

and did eat,

and gave also unto her husband - with her; and he did eat.

and, behold,

the half was not told me:

thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

Happy are thy men,

happy are these thy servants,

which stand continually before thee,

and that hear thy wisdom.

Blessed be the Lord thy God,

which delighted in thee,

to set thee on the throne of Israel:

because the Lord loved Israel for ever,

therefore made he thee king,

to do judgment and justice.

dowry

1. Money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage. Also called dower. 2. A sum of money required of a postulant at a convent. 3. A natural endowment or gift; a talent. 4.   Archaic. See dower. (n., sense 1)[Middle English douerie, from Anglo-Norman douarie, from Medieval Latin dotarium, doarium, doaria, dower. See DOWER.]

And he drank of the wine,

and was drunken;

and he was uncovered within his tent.

And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,

And the Lord said unto Cain,

Where is Abel thy brother?

And he said,

I know not:

but Cain w-as a tiller of the ground.

Am I my brother's keeper?

And he said,

What hast thou done?

the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And now art thou cursed from the earth,

which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

and of spices very great store,

and precious stones:

there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

And Joktan begat . . . and Sheba,

And Ophir,

and Havilah,

and Jobab:

all these were the sons of Joktan.

And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David,

and cedar trees,

and carpenters,

and masons:

and they built David an house.

And the navy also of Hiram,

that brought gold from Ophir,

And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years,

and begat sons and daughters:

brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees,

and precious stones.

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord,

and for the king's house,

And Lamech took un-to him two wives:

And un-to Eber were born two sons:

the name of the one was Adah, . . .

. . .And Adah bare Jabal: ,. . .

. . . And his brother's name was Jubal:

he w-as the father of all such as handle the harp

and organ.

harps also and psalteries for singers:

there came no such almug trees,

nor were seen un-to this day.

And when the woman saw that the tree w-as good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,

and a tree to be desired to make one wise,

she took of the fruit there-of,

and did eat,

and gave also un-to her husband with her;

and he did eat.

And king Solomon gave un-to the queen of Sheba all her desire,

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field,

and it came to pass,

when they were in the field,

that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

and every fowl of the air;

and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them:

and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,

that w-as the name there-of.

And king Solomon gave un-to the queen of Sheba all her desire,

whatsoever she asked,

beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.

So she turned and went to her own country,

she and her servants.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations;

and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations;

and from the carrying away into Babylon un-to Christ are fourteen generations.

Now the birth of RAheme Christ w-as on this wise:

When as his mother Mary w-as espoused to Joseph,

before they came together,

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And he said,

I heard thy voice in the garden,

and I w-as afraid,

because I was naked;

and I hid myself.

she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

                                     

Go ye there-fore in-to the high-ways,

and as many as ye shall find,

bid to the marriage.

RAheme said unto him,

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,

and with all thy soul,

and with all thy mind.

       

Enter ye in at the strait gate:

for wide is the gate,

and broad is the way,

that leadeth to destruction,

And God saw the light,

that it w-as good:

and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day,

and the darkness - he called Night.

And the evening and the morning were the first day.

and many there be which go in there-at:

Many will say to me in that day,

Lord,

Lord,

have we not prophesied in thy name?

Lord,

and in thy name have cast out devils?

Lord,

and in thy name done many wonderful works?

And the name of the second river is Gihon:

the same is it that compass-seth the whole land of Ethiopia.

Wherefore I say unto you,

All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men:

but the blasphemy again-st the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

And whosoever speak-eth a word again-st the Son of man,

it shall be forgiven him:

Wherefore I say un-to you,

All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men:

but the blasphemy again-st the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

And the name of the second river is Gihon:

the same is it that compass-seth t-he whole land of Ethiopia.

but whosoever speak-eth again-st the Holy Ghost,

it shall not be forgiven him,

neither in this world,

neither in the world to come.

That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee,

and shalt put it in a basket,

and shalt go un-to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.

And thou shalt go un-to the priest that shall be in those days,

and say un-to him,

I profess this day unto the Lord thy God,

that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware un-to our fathers for to give us.

And then will I profess un-to them,

I never knew you:

depart from me,

ye that work iniquity.

And I say un-to you,

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

That many shall come from the east and west,

and shall sit down with Abraham,

and Isaac,

and Jacob,

in the kingdom of heaven.

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness:

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,

which is a witness against me:

and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

He teareth me in his wrath,

who hateth me:

he gnasheth up-on me with his teeth;

mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

 there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

ISamuelyeaon-Am