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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/songs/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Longing for Her Beloved</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Oh that you were like a brother to me</span><br /><span class="indent">who nursed at my mother’s breasts!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">If I found you outside, I would kiss you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and none would despise me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I would lead you and bring you</span><br /><span class="indent">into the house of my mother—</span><br /><span class="indent">she who used to teach me.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I would give you spiced wine to drink,</span><br /><span class="indent">the juice of my pomegranate.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His left hand is under my head,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his right hand embraces me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent">that you not stir up or awaken love</span><br /><span class="indent">until it pleases.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who is that coming up from the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent">leaning on her beloved?</span></p><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">Under the apple tree I awakened you.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">There your mother was in labor with you;</span><br /><span class="indent">there she who bore you was in labor.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Set me as a seal upon your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">as a seal upon your arm,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for love is strong as death,</span><br /><span class="indent">jealousy<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or ardor">a</a></sup></span> is fierce as the grave.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew as Sheol">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">Its flashes are flashes of fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">the very flame of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Many waters cannot quench love,</span><br /><span class="indent">neither can floods drown it.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">If a man offered for love</span><br /><span class="indent">all the wealth of his house,</span><br /><span class="indent">he<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or it">c</a></sup></span> would be utterly despised.</span></p> <p class="heading">Final Advice</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">Others</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">We have a little sister,</span><br /><span class="indent">and she has no breasts.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">What shall we do for our sister</span><br /><span class="indent">on the day when she is spoken for?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If she is a wall,</span><br /><span class="indent">we will build on her a battlement of silver,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but if she is a door,</span><br /><span class="indent">we will enclose her with boards of cedar.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I was a wall,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my breasts were like towers;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">then I was in his eyes</span><br /><span class="indent">as one who finds<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brings out">d</a></sup></span> peace.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;</span><br /><span class="indent">he let out the vineyard to keepers;</span><br /><span class="indent">each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My vineyard, my very own, is before me;</span><br /><span class="indent">you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">He</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O you who dwell in the gardens,</span><br /><span class="indent">with companions listening for your voice;</span><br /><span class="indent">let me hear it.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Make haste, my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent">and be like a gazelle</span><br /><span class="ln-group">or a young stag</span><br /><span class="indent">on the mountains of spices.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>ardor</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i>as <span class="catch-word">Sheol</span></i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>it</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>brings out</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, 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