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Drunk With Blood:
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| Proverbs 7
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| | 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. |
| | 7:2
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. |
| | 7:3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. |
(7:5-27) A woman that seduces a man is evil -- the man
is just an innocent victim.
(7:5) "Keep thee
from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her
words."
| | 7:4
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
| | 7:5
That they may keep thee
from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her
words.
| | 7:6
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, |
| | 7:7
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young
man void of understanding, |
| | 7:8
Passing through the
street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, |
| | 7:9
In the twilight, in the
evening, in the black and dark night: |
| | 7:10
And, behold, there met
him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. |
(7:10) "A woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart."
(7:11) "She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:"
| | 7:11
(She is loud and
stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
| | 7:12
Now is she without, now
in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) |
(7:12) "Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner."
| | 7:13
So she caught him, and
kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, |
(7:13) "So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,"
| | 7:14
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. |
| | 7:15
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I
have found thee. |
| | 7:16
I have decked my bed
with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. |
(7:16) "I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry."
| 7:17
I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
(7:17) "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."
| 7:18
Come, let us take
our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. |
(7:18) "Come, let us take
our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves."
| | 7:19
For the goodman is not
at home, he is gone a long journey: |
(7:19) "For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey."
| | 7:20
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day
appointed. |
| | 7:21
With her much fair
speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced
him. |
(7:21) "With her much fair
speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced
him."
(7:22) "He goeth after her
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction
of the stocks."
| | 7:22
He goeth after her
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction
of the stocks;
| | 7:23
Till a dart strike
through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it
is for his life. |
(7:23) "Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it
is for his life."
| | 7:24
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of
my mouth. |
| | 7:25
Let not thine heart
decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. |
(7:25) "Let not thine heart
decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths."
| | 7:26
For she hath cast down
many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. |
(7:26) "For she hath cast down
many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her."
| | 7:27
Her house is the way
to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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(7:27) "Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death."
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