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

Sng 8:1

Sng 8:1O 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.

Sng 8:2

Sng 8:2I 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.

Sng 8:3

Sng 8:3O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

Sng 8:4

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

Sng 8:5

Sng 8:5Who 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.

Sng 8:6

Sng 8:6Set 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.

Sng 8:7

Sng 8:7Many 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.

Sng 8:8

Sng 8:8We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?

Sng 8:9

Sng 8:9If 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.

Sng 8:10

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

Sng 8:11

Sng 8:11Solomon 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.

Sng 8:12

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

Sng 8:13

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

Sng 8:14

Sng 8:14Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.
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