elect. When they saw the daughters, they blessed them: the queens and the concubines praised them.

Who is she that cometh forth as the dawn, fair as the moon, chosen as the sun, terrible as the tops of the hosts?

I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the shrubs by the brook, to see whether the vine blossomed, whether the pomegranates were green.

My soul knew it not, that he had set me by the chariot of Ammi-Nadib.

Return again, return again, O Sulamith! Return again, return again, that we may behold thee!
What do you see in Sulamith? The round dance at Mahanaim.
(Song of Solomon)
Chapter 7
Farther praise and prayer of the church.

How beautiful is thy walk in thy shoes, O prince’s daughter! Thy loins are like two clasps together, which the master’s hand hath made.

Thy navel is like a round cup that never lacketh drink. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, covered with roses.

Your two breasts are like two young deer twins.

Thy neck is like an ivory tower. Thine eyes are like the pools of Heshbon, at the gate of Bathrabbim. Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.

Thy head is upon thee like Carmel. The hair of thy head is bound in folds like the purple of the king.

How beautiful and how lovely art thou, O love of lusts!

Thy length is like a palm tree, and thy breasts like grapes.

I said: I must climb the palm tree and take hold of its branches. Let thy breasts be as grapes upon the vine, and thy nose as the smell of apples.

And thy throat like good wine, which is smooth unto my friend, and speaketh of far-off things.

my friend is mine and he sticks up for me too.

Come, my friend, let us go out into the field, and stay in the villages, 12. That we may arise early unto the vineyards, and see whether the vine be in blossom, and whether the eyes be grown, and whether the pomegranates be put forth: then will I give thee my breasts.

The lilies give off the smell, and at our door are all kinds of noble fruits. My friend, I have kept both this year’s and far-off ones for you.
(Song of Solomon)
Chapter 8
Last love talk of Christ and His Church.

O that I might find thee, my brother, sucking my mother’s breasts, out of doors, and kiss thee, that no man should mock me!

I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, where thou shouldest teach me: and I would water thee with wine made, and with the juice of my pomegranates.

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is upon me.

I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up nor stir up my love, until ye yourselves be pleased.

Who is she that cometh up from the wilderness, and leaneth upon her friend? Under the apple tree I waked thee, When thy mother bare thee, When she that bare thee lay with thee.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, and as a seal upon thine arm. For love is strong as death, and zeal is firm as hell. Their embers are fiery, and a flame of the LORD, 7. That even much water may not quench love, nor the rivers drown it. If a man were to give all that is in his house for love, it would be worth nothing.

Our sister is small and has no breasts. What should we do to our sister, if one should address her now?

If it be a wall, let us build silver bulwarks upon it. If it be a door, let us strengthen it with cedar planks.

I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers. There have I been before his eyes, as which finds peace.

Solomon had a vineyard in Baalhamon. And he gave the vineyard to the keepers, that every one might bring a thousand shekels of silver for the fruit thereof.

My vineyard is before me. To thee, Solomon, is due a thousand; but to the keepers, two hundred, with its fruit.

Thou that dwellest in the gardens, let me hear thy voice: the companies take heed.

Flee, my friend, and be like a deer or young stag on the Würzberge.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
DeepL English Translation
[Processed by BackToLuther. German text published here.]
The Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah) ^
Chapter 1
Sermon of repentance to the ungrateful Jews.

This is the vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw of Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Jehizkiah, kings of Judah.

Hear, ye heavens, and earth, take heed. For the LORD speaketh: I have raised up and exalted children, and they have fallen away from me.

An ox knoweth his master, and an ass his master’s crib: but Israel knoweth it not, neither do my people hear it.

O woe unto the sinful people, the people of great iniquity, the wicked seed, the children of iniquity, which forsake the LORD, blaspheming the Holy One in Israel, draw back!

What more shall they smite upon you, if ye do but the more to depart? The whole head is sick, the whole heart is dull.

From the sole of his foot even to his head there is no soundness in him, but sores and welts and boils, which are not healed, neither bound up, nor soothed with oil.

Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your fields before your eyes, and is desolate, as that which is devastated by strangers.

And that which is left of the daughter of Zion is as a little house in the vineyard, as a tent of the night in the gourds, as a desolate city.

If the LORD of hosts left us not a little, we should be as Sodom, and as Gomorrha.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye princes of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

What is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and of the fat of the fatlings; and I have no desire for the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of goats.

When ye come in to appear before me, who shall require this of your hands, that ye should tread in my court?

Offer no more meat offerings in vain. The incense is abomination unto me: the new moons and the sabbaths, when ye come together, and are troubled and afraid, them will I not like.

My soul hateth your new moons and your seasons: I am weary of them; I am weary of suffering.

And though ye spread forth your hands, yet will I hide mine eyes from you; and though ye pray much, yet will I not hear you; for dear hands are full of blood.

Wash, cleanse yourselves, put away your evil from mine eyes, depart from evil.

Learn to do good, seek justice, help the oppressed, give justice to the fatherless, and help the widow’s cause.

Come then, and let us reason together, saith the LORD. If sin be as scarlet, it shall be as white as snow: and if it be as raisin, it shall be as wool.

If ye will obey me, ye shall enjoy the good of the land.

But if ye refuse and disobey, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD saith it.

How is it that the good city is become a harlot? It was full of justice, righteousness dwelt therein, but now murderers

Thy silver is become foam, and thy drink is mixed with water.

Thy princes are renegades and thieves: they all take gifts gladly, and seek after gifts: they do not do justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause cometh not before them.

Therefore saith the LORD of hosts, the mighty one in Israel; O woe! I will be comforted by mine enemies, and avenged by mine enemies;

And I will turn mine hand against thee, and sweep away thy foam most purely, and put away all thy tin.

And give thee judges again, as they were before, and councillors, as at the beginning. Then shalt thou be called a city of righteousness, and a pious city.

Zion must be redeemed by judgment, and her captives by righteousness, 28. That transgressors and sinners should be broken in pieces together, and that they which
forsake the LORD should perish.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye delight in, and ashamed of the gardens which ye choose,

When ye shall be as an oak tree with dry leaves, and as a garden without water; 11. When the protection shall be like ashes, and his doings like sparks, and both shall be kindled together, that no man put them out.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 2
Profession of the Gentiles in the place of the Jews.

This is it that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw of Judah and Jerusalem: 2. In the latter days the mountain where the house of the LORD is shall surely be higher than all mountains, and shall be exalted above all hills: and all nations shall run unto it, 3. And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up into the mount of the LORD, unto the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD out of Jerusalem.

And he shall judge the nations, and punish many people. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. For no nation shall lift up a sword against another, neither shall they