| 章 |
| 8:1 |
If only you were to me like a brother, who was nursed at my mother's breasts! Then, if I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
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| 8:2 |
I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house-- she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
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| 8:3 |
His left arm is under my head and his right arm embraces me.
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| 8:4 |
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
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| 8:5 |
Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover?
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| 8:6 |
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
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| 8:7 |
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
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| 8:8 |
We have a young sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister for the day she is spoken for?
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| 8:9 |
If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
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| 8:10 |
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.
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| 8:11 |
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver.
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| 8:12 |
But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
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| 8:13 |
You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
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| 8:14 |
Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
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