Quotes About Wisdom

This is Solomonís Song of Songs.

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.

His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.

His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.

There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,

I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ëBe ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.í