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

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.

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

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

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.

My lover said to me,“ Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one!Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone.The flowers are springing up, the season of singing birds has come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.The fig trees are forming young fruit, and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming. Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one!”

The Lord had said to Abram,“ Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.

Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you.And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.

“ If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else— your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.

and change the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. She will stay in your home, but let her mourn for her father and mother for a full month. Then you may marry her, and you will be her husband and she will be your wife.

“ If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.

And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life.

This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!

“ Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink— even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk— it’s all free!Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food.“ Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.

The Levites obeyed your word and guarded your covenant. They were more loyal to you than to their own parents. They ignored their relatives and did not acknowledge their own children.