Song of Solomon 8:8
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We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?
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Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.