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…by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.

Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.

I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,

O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.

Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

…so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

…and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD.

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.