SAU Self as Nature

He said, "Who are you?" She answered, "I am Ruth your handmaid. Therefore spread your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman."

In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.

[Beloved] I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.

I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.

My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

[Lover] Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:

it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter).

Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'