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Song of Songs 8 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 8
Lovers Reunited at Their Country Home
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1 Oh, that you were like my brother,
​​Who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
​​If I should find you outside,
​​I would kiss you;
​​I would not be despised.
2 ​​I would lead you and bring you
​​Into the house of my mother,
​​She who used to instruct me.
​​I would cause you to drink of spiced wine,
​​Of the juice of my pomegranate.
(To the Daughters of Jerusalem)
3 ​​His left hand is under my head,
​​And his right hand embraces me.
4 ​​I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
​​Do not stir up nor awaken love
​​Until it pleases.
Love Renewed in Lebanon
A Relative
5 ​​Who is this coming up from the wilderness,
​​Leaning upon her beloved?
​
​​I awakened you under the apple tree.
​​There your mother brought you forth;
​​There she who bore you brought you forth.
The Shulamite to Her Beloved
6 ​​Set me as a seal upon your heart,
​​As a seal upon your arm;
​​For love is as strong as death,
​​Jealousy as cruel as the grave;[fn]
​​Its flames are flames of fire,
​​A most vehement flame.[fn]
​
7 ​​Many waters cannot quench love,
​​Nor can the floods drown it.
​​If a man would give for love
​​All the wealth of his house,
​​It would be utterly despised.
The Shulamite’s Brothers
8 ​​We have a little sister,
​​And she has no breasts.
​​What shall we do for our sister
​​In the day when she is spoken for?
9 ​​If she is a wall,
​​We will build upon her
​​A battlement of silver;
​​And if she is a door,
​​We will enclose her
​​With boards of cedar.
The Shulamite
10 ​​I am a wall,
​​And my breasts like towers;
​​Then I became in his eyes
​​As one who found peace.
11 ​​Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon;
​​He leased the vineyard to keepers;
​​Everyone was to bring for its fruit
​​A thousand silver coins.
(To Solomon)
12 ​​My own vineyard is before me.
​​You, O Solomon, may have a thousand,
​​And those who tend its fruit two hundred.
The Beloved
13 ​​You who dwell in the gardens,
​​The companions listen for your voice—
​​Let me hear it!
The Shulamite
14 ​​Make haste, my beloved,
​​And be like a gazelle
​​Or a young stag
​​On the mountains of spices.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Or Sheol
Literally A flame of YAH (a poetic form of YHWH, the LORD)
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