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Song of Songs 8 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 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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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 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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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:3 - His left arm is under my head and his right arm embraces me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5 - Friends: Who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved? She: Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 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[fn] unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:7 - Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it[fn] would be utterly scorned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:8 - Friends: 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?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 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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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 - She: 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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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 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[fn] of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:12 - But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon, and two hundred[fn] are for those who tend its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:13 - He: You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 - She: Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
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NIV Footnotes
Or ardor
Or fire, / like the very flame of the LORD
Or he
That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12
That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
NIV

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Song of Songs Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation 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