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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Song of Solomon 8 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/songs/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Songs 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/7.htm" title="Song of Solomon 7">◄</a> Song of Solomon 8 <a href="../isaiah/1.htm" title="Isaiah 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/songs/8-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Longing for Her Beloved<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, they should not despise me.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>His left hand <i>should be</i> under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake <i>my</i> love, until he please.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised thee up under an apple-tree; there thy mother brought thee forth; there she that bore thee brought thee forth.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, <i>even</i> the flames thereof.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, <i>men</i> would utterly despise it.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Our sister is little, and has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister, in the day wherein she shall be spoken for?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers; I was in their eyes as one that found peace.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon; he let his vineyard to keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand <i>pieces</i> of silver.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon <i>shall have</i> a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: make me hear <i>it</i>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>