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Song of Songs 8 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:1 - Oh, how I wish you were my little brother, nursing at my mother's breasts; if I saw you outside, I could kiss you - surely no one would despise me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:2 - I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house, the one who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. The Beloved about Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:3 - His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me. The Beloved to the Maidens:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 - I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem: "Do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!" The Maidens about His Beloved:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5 - Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? The Beloved to Her Lover: Under the apple tree I aroused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth. The Beloved to Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:6 - Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:7 - Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love, the offer would be utterly despised. The Beloved's Brothers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:8 - We have a little sister, and as yet she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:9 - If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar. The Beloved:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 - I was a wall, and my breasts were like fortress towers. Then I found favor in his eyes. The Beloved to Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:11 - Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon; he leased out the vineyard to those who maintained it. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:12 - My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal alone. The thousand shekels belong to you, O Solomon, and two hundred shekels belong to those who maintain it for its fruit. The Lover to His Beloved:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:13 - O you who stay in the gardens, my companions are listening attentively for your voice; let me be the one to hear it! The Beloved to Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 - Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
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Song of Songs Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras