Song of Solomon 8
1 who? to give: put you like/as brother: male-sibling to/for me to suckle breast mother my to find you in/on/with outside to kiss you also not to despise to/for me
How I wish you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! Then if I met you on the street I could kiss you and no one would tell me off.
2 to lead you to come (in): bring you to(wards) house: home mother my to learn: teach me to water: drink you from wine [the] spice from sweet pomegranate my
Then I could take you home to my mother's house, where she used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranate.
3 left his underneath: under head my and right his to embrace me
He supports my head with his left hand, and holds me close with his right.
4 to swear [obj] you daughter Jerusalem what? to rouse and what? to rouse [obj] [the] love till which/that to delight in
Women of Jerusalem, swear to me that you won't disturb our love until the right time.
5 who? this to ascend: rise from [the] wilderness to lean upon beloved her underneath: under [the] apple to rouse you there [to] be in labour you mother your there [to] be in labour to beget you
Who is this coming in from the wilderness holding her love close to her? Woman: I woke you up under the apple tree where your mother conceived you, and where she gave birth to you.
6 to set: make me like/as signet upon heart your like/as signet upon arm your for strong like/as death love severe like/as hell: Sheol jealousy flash her flash fire flame LORD (Sheol h7585)
Stamp my name as a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm, for love is strong as death, passion as unyielding as the grave—its arrows flash like fire, a blazing flame of the Lord. (Sheol h7585)
7 water many not be able to/for to quench [obj] [the] love and river not to overflow her if to give: give man: anyone [obj] all substance house: home his in/on/with love to despise to despise to/for him
Floods of water cannot extinguish love; rivers cannot submerge it. If a man offered everything he owned in order to buy love he would be completely rejected.
8 sister to/for us small and breast nothing to/for her what? to make: do to/for sister our in/on/with day which/that to speak: speak in/on/with her
We have a younger sister whose breasts are still small. What shall we do for our sister when someone asks to marry her?
9 if wall he/she/it to build upon her encampment silver: money and if door he/she/it to confine upon her tablet cedar
If she is a wall, we will build a silver tower on it. But if she is a door, we will bar the way with cedar planks.
10 I wall and breast my like/as tower then to be in/on/with eye his like/as to find peace
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So when he looks at me he's happy!
11 vineyard to be to/for Solomon in/on/with Baal-hamon Baal-hamon to give: give [obj] [the] vineyard to/for to keep man: anyone to come (in): bring in/on/with fruit his thousand silver: money
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon which he leased to tenant farmers. Each of them paid him one thousand silver coins for the fruit it produced.
12 vineyard my which/that to/for me to/for face: before my [the] thousand to/for you Solomon and hundred to/for to keep [obj] fruit his
But I own my vineyard, it is mine alone. One thousand silver coins are for you, Solomon, and two hundred for those who look after it.
13 [the] to dwell in/on/with garden companion to listen to/for voice your to hear: hear me
My darling, sitting there in the gardens with companions listening to you—please talk to me!
14 to flee beloved my and to resemble to/for you to/for gazelle or to/for fawn [the] deer upon mountain: mount spice
Come quickly, my love! Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.
