The Wiles of the Harlot
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My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
E | BNI | ShMR | EMRI | UMTsUThI | ThTsFN
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| in·we·he-will | ? | I-will·from·? | and·from·? | ?
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2
Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of your eye.
B | ShMR | MTsUThI | UChIA | UThURThI | KEIShUN
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| ? | from·? | and·life | and·? | as·I-will·he-will·?
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3
Bind them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart.
G | QShRM | OL- | ETsBOThIK | KThBM | OL- | LUCh | LBK
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| ? | on | I-will·? | as·? | on | to·and·? | to·in·as
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4
Say to wisdom: 'You are my sister', and call understanding your kinswoman;
D | EMR | LChKMA | EChThI | ETh | UMDO
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| say | to·? | I-will·? | the | and·from·?
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| LBINA | ThQRE
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| to·in·he-will·we·the | ?
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5
That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the alien woman that makes smooth her words.
A | LShMRK | MEShA | ZRA | MNKRIA | EMRIA
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| to·? | from·I-will·? | ? | from·we·as·? | I-will·from·?
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6
For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
U | KI | BChLUN | BIThI | BOD | EShNBI | NShQFThI
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| that | in·? | in·he-will·? | in·? | I-will·? | we·?
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7
I beheld among the thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Z | UERE | BFThEIM | EBINA
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| and·I-will·see | in·? | I-will·in·he-will·we·the
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| BBNIM | NOR | ChSR- | LB
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| in·children | we·? | ? | heart
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8
Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;
Ch | OBR | BShUQ | ETsL | FNA | UDRK | BIThA | ITsOD
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| ? | in·? | I-will·? | ? | and·? | in·he-will·? | he-will·?
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9
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
T | BNShF- | BORB | IUM | BEIShUN | LILA
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| in·we·? | in·evening | day | in·I-will·he-will·? | night
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10
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
I | UANA | EShA | LQREThU | ShITh | ZUNA | UNTsRTh | LB
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| and·listen | I-will·? | to·? | ? | ? | and·we·? | heart
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11
She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house;
IE | AMIA | AIE | USRRTh
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| the·from·he-will·the | the·he-will·I-will | and·?
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| BBIThA | LE- | IShKNU | RGLIA
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| in·in·he-will·? | not | he-will·? | ?
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12
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at every corner.
IB | FOM | BChUTs | FOM | BRChBUTh | UETsL | KL- | FNA | ThERB
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| ? | in·? | ? | in·? | and·I-will·? | all | ? | ?
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13
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him:
IG | UAChZIQA | BU | UNShQA | LU | AOZA | FNIA | UThEMR
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| and·the·? | give | and·we·water | to·and | the·? | ? | and·?
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14
'Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from me; this day have I paid my vows.
ID | ZBChI | ShLMIM | OLI | AIUM | ShLMThI | NDRI
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| ? | ? | ? | the·day | ? | we·?
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15
Therefore came I forth to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.
TU | OL- | KN | ITsEThI | LQREThK | LShChR | FNIK
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| on | so | he-will·? | to·? | to·? | ?
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| UEMTsEK
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| and·I-will·from·?
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16
I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
TZ | MRBDIM | RBDThI | ORShI | ChTBUTh | ETUN | MTsRIM
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| from·? | ? | ? | ? | I-will·? | from·?
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17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
IZ | NFThI | MShKBI | MR | EALIM | UQNMUN
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| we·? | from·? | from·? | I-will·the·to·sea | and·?
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18
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.
ICh | LKA | NRUA | DDIM | OD- | ABQR | NThOLSA
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| to·as·the | we·? | ? | ? | the·morning | we·?
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| BEABIM
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| in·I-will·the·in·sea
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19
For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
IT | KI | EIN | AEISh | BBIThU
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| that | no | the·I-will·he-will·? | in·in·he-will·?
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| ALK | BDRK | MRChUQ
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| the·to·as | in·? | from·?
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20
He has taken the bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.'
K | TsRUR- | AKSF | LQCh | BIDU | LIUM | AKSE
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| ? | the·as·? | to·? | in·he-will·? | to·day | the·as·?
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| IBE | BIThU
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| he-will·come | in·he-will·?
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21
With her much fair speech she causes him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she entices him away.
KE | ATThU | BRB | LQChA | BChLQ | ShFThIA | ThDIChNU
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| the·? | in·? | to·? | in·? | ? | ?
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22
He goes after her straightway, as an ox that goes to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;
KB | AULK | EChRIA | FThEM | KShUR | EL- | TBCh
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| the·and·to·as | I-will·? | ? | as·? | this | ?
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| IBE | UKOKS | EL- | MUSR
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| he-will·come | and·as·? | this | from·and·?
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| EUIL
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| I-will·and·he-will·to
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23
Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare-- and knows not that it is at the cost of his life.
KG | OD | IFLCh | ChTs | KBDU | KMAR | TsFUR | EL-
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| ? | he-will·? | ? | as·in·? | as·from·the·? | ? | this
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| FCh | ULE- | IDO | KI- | BNFShU
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| breathe | and·not | he-will·? | that | in·we·?
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24
Now therefore, O you children, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
KD | UOThA | BNIM | ShMOU- | LI | UAQShIBU
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| and·? | children | ? | to·he-will | and·the·?
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| LEMRI- | FI
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| to·I-will·from·? | ?
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25
Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
KA | EL- | IShT | EL- | DRKIA | LBK | EL- | ThThO
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| this | he-will·? | this | ? | to·in·as | this | ?
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26
For she has cast down many wounded; yes, a mighty host are all her slain.
KU | KI- | RBIM | ChLLIM | AFILA | UOTsMIM | KL- | ARGIA
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| that | ? | ? | the·? | and·? | all | the·?
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27
Her house is the way to the nether-world, going down to the chambers of death.
KZ | DRKI | ShEUL | BIThA | IRDUTh | EL- | ChDRI-
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| ? | ? | in·he-will·? | he-will·? | this | ?
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