Royal bride, listen and pay careful attention. Forget about your people and the home you came from.

女子啊，你要听，要想，要侧耳而听！不要记念你的民和你的父家，

女子啊，要倾听，要思想，要侧耳而听！不要记念你本族和你父家，

女子啊，要倾听，要思想，要侧耳而听！不要记念你本族和你父家，

女子啊，要侧耳倾听：不要再挂念家乡的父老，

王所爱的女子啊！你要听，要看，要留心地听；你要忘记你的本族和你的父家；

女儿啊，你要听、要看、要侧耳听——你当忘记你的民和你的父家！

女子啊，你要聽，要想，要側耳而聽！不要記念你的民和你的父家，

女子啊，要傾聽，要思想，要側耳而聽！不要記念你本族和你父家，

女子啊，要傾聽，要思想，要側耳而聽！不要記念你本族和你父家，

女子啊，要側耳傾聽：不要再掛念家鄉的父老，

王所愛的女子啊！你要聽，要看，要留心地聽；你要忘記你的本族和你的父家；

女子啊，你要聽，要看，要傾耳以聽；務要忘掉你本族之民和你父的家；

女兒啊，你要聽、要看、要側耳聽——你當忘記你的民和你的父家！

女子歟、聽之思之、傾耳聆之、爾之鄉民、爾之父家、勿為繫念兮、

君夫人宜傾耳以聆、悉心以思兮、爾之鄉黨宗族、毋懸念兮、

女子乎、爾須聽須視、須側耳而聽、莫追念爾故國人民及爾父家、

赫奕眾女中。有女出天潢。王后佩金飾。亭亭玉座傍。

Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father’s house.

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father’s house,

Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your family far away.

Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider: Forget your people and your father’s house,

Listen, daughter, look and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house;

Listen, O daughter, Consider and incline your ear; Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house:

Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider: forget your people and your father’s house,

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

He said to me,‘ Rise up, my love. Come with me, my beautiful one.Look! The winter is past. The rains are over and gone.Flowers are appearing on the earth. The season for singing has come. The cooing of doves is heard in our land.The fig trees are producing their early fruit. The flowers on the vines are giving off their sweet smell. Rise up and come, my love. Come with me, my beautiful one.’ ”

The Lord had said to Abram,“ Go from your country, your people and your father’s family. Go to the land I will show you.

So,“ Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch anything that is not pure and‘ clean.’ Then I will receive you.”( Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34, 41)And,“ I will be your Father. You will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord who rules over all.”( 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8)Dear friends, we have these promises from God. So let us make ourselves pure from everything that makes our bodies and spirits impure. Let us be completely holy. We want to honor God.

“ Anyone who comes to me must hate their father and mother. They must hate their wife and children. They must hate their brothers and sisters. And they must hate even their own life. Unless they do this, they can’t be my disciple.

Have her throw away the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. Let her live in your house and mourn the loss of her parents for a full month. Then you can go to her and be her husband. And she will be your wife.

“ Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Suppose anyone has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, husband or wife, children or fields because of me. Anyone who has done that will receive 100 times as much. They will also receive eternal life.

That’s why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. The two of them become one.

So from now on we don’t look at anyone the way the world does. At one time we looked at Christ in that way. But we don’t anymore.

“ Come, all you who are thirsty. Come and drink the water I offer to you. You who do not have any money, come. Buy and eat the grain I give you. Come and buy wine and milk. You will not have to pay anything for it.Why spend money on what is not food? Why work for what does not satisfy you? Listen carefully to me. Then you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the richest food there is.Listen and come to me. Pay attention to me. Then you will live. I will make a covenant with you that will last forever. I will give you my faithful love. I promised it to David.

Levi didn’t show special favor to anyone. He did not spare his father and mother. He didn’t excuse his relatives or his children. But he watched over your word. He guarded your covenant.