Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.
Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine.
the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—
Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
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