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Song of Songs 8 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:1 - O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:2 - I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:3 - O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5 - Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:6 - Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:7 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:8 - We have a little sister, and 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 upon her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 - I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:11 - Solomon had a vineyard at Ba'al-ha'mon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:12 - My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:13 - O you who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:14 - Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

Availability: Freely available for non-commercial use provided that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed.

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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 New English Translation 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