History & Narratives Verses

{There was} a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Then said I, Wisdom {is} better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom {is} despised, and his words are not heard.

Wisdom {is} better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty {themselves} upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

The song of songs, which {is} Solomon's.

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

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

Who {is} this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

Behold his bed, which {is} Solomon's; threescore valiant men {are} about it, of the valiant of Israel.

They all hold swords, {being} expert in war: every man {hath} his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. {a chariot: or, a bed}

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.