Song of Solomon 8:1-14

8  Oh that thou hadst been a very brother to me, Who had sucked the breasts of my own mother,—Had I found thee without I had kissed thee, Yea folk would not have despised me!  I would have guided thee—brought thee into the house of my mother, Thou wouldst have instructed me,—I would have let thee drink of spiced wine, Of the pressed-out juice of my pomegranate.  His left hand under my head Then his right hand embraceth me.  [He.] I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,—Why will ye wake and why will ye arouse the dear love until she please!  [They.] Who is this coming up out of the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? [He.] Under the apple-tree I roused thee, Where thy mother was in pain with thee, Where she was in pain who gave thee birth!  [She.] Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm, For mighty as death is love, Exacting as hades is jealousy,—The flames thereof are flames of fire, The flash of Yah!  Many waters cannot quench love, Nor shall floods overwhelm it,—If a man would give all the substance of his house for love They would utterly despise him.  [They.] A sister have we, a little one, And breasts hath she none,—What shall we do for our sister, In the day when she may be spoken for?  If a wall she is we will build upon it a battlement of silver,—But if a door she is we will close it up with a plank of cedar. 10  [She.] I was a wall, and my breasts like towers,—Then became I in his eyes one who did indeed find good content. 11  A vineyard had Solomon as the owner of abundance, He put out the vineyard to keepers,—Every man was to bring in for the fruit thereof a thousand silverlings: 12  Mine own vineyard is before me,—The thousand belong to thee, O Solomon, And two hundred to the keepers of the fruit thereof. 13  [He.] O thou fair dweller in the gardens, The companions are giving heed to thy voice, Let me hear it. 14  [She.] Come quickly, my beloved, and resemble thou A gazelle or a young stag, Upon the mountains of balsam-trees.

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