< Song of Solomon 8 >

1 Who? will he give you like a brother to me [the] sucking child of [the] breasts of mother my I will find you on the outside I will kiss you also not people will despise me.
O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
2 I will lead you I will bring you to [the] house of mother my [who] she taught me I will give to drink you some of [the] wine of spice some of [the] juice of pomegranate my.
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
3 Left [hand] his [is] under head my and right [hand] his it embraces me.
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 I adjure you O daughters of Jerusalem why? will you awaken - and why? will you arouse love until that it will please.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
5 Who? this [is] coming up from the wilderness leaning herself on lover her under the apple tree I aroused you there she was in labor with you mother your there she was in labor she bore you.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6 Put me like seal on heart your like seal on arm your for [is] strong like death love [is] severe like Sheol jealousy flashes its [are] flashes of fire a flame of [the] Lord. (Sheol h7585)
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. (Sheol h7585)
7 Waters many not they are able to extinguish love and rivers not they will overflow it if he will give anyone all [the] wealth of house his for love certainly people will despise it.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8 A sister [belongs] to us small and breasts not [belong] to her what? will we do for sister our on the day when it will be spoken for her.
We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 If [is] a wall she we will build on her a battlement of silver and if [is] a door she we will shut up over her a board of cedar.
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
10 I [was] a wall and breasts my [are] like towers then I was in eyes his like [one who] finds peace.
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11 A vineyard it belonged to Solomon at Baal-Hamon he gave the vineyard to [those who] keep each one he will bring for fruit its a thousand silver.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12 Vineyard my which [belongs] to me [is] before me the thousand [shekels] [belong] to you O Solomon and two hundred [shekels] [belong] to [those who] keep fruit its.
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13 O [one who] dwells in the gardens companions [are] listening for voice your cause to hear [it] me.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14 Hasten - O lover my and be like yourself a gazelle or [the] fawn of the deer on mountains of spices.
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

< Song of Solomon 8 >