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........ The Wiles of the Harlot
7:01 .. My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
7:02 .. Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of your eye.
7:03 .. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
7:04 .. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your intimate friend;
7:05 .. That they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
7:06 .. For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
7:07 .. And I saw among the naive, and discerned among the youths, a young man lacking sense
7:08 .. Passing through the street near her corner; and he takes the way to her house,
7:09 .. In the twilight, in the evening, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
7:10 .. And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
7:11 .. She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;
7:12 .. She is now in the streets, now in the squares, and lurks by every corner.
7:13 .. So she seizes him and kisses him and with a brazen face she says to him:
7:14 .. “I was due to offer peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
7:15 .. Therefore I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
7:16 .. I have spread my couch with coverings, with colored linens of Egypt.
7:17 .. I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
7:18 .. Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses.
7:19 .. For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;
7:20 .. He has taken a bag of money with him, at the full moon he will come home.”
7:21 .. With her many persuasions, she entices him; with her flattering lips she seduces him.
7:22 .. Suddenly he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,
7:23 .. Until an arrow pierces through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, so he does not know that it will cost him his life.
7:24 .. Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my mouth.
7:25 .. Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths.
7:26 .. For many are the victims she has cast down, and numerous are all her slain.
7:27 .. Her house is the way to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
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