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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/7.htm" title="Song of Songs 7">◄</a> Song of Songs 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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch26008" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn26008" class="cn"></h1> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v26008001" class="ver">1</span>Would that you were a brother to me,</p> <p class="sl1">nursed at my mother’s breasts!</p> <p class="sl">If I met you out of doors, I would kiss you</p> <p class="sl1">and none would despise me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v26008002" class="ver">2</span><a id="ren26008002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en26008002-a">a</a> I would lead you, bring you to my mother’s house,</p> <p class="sl1">where you would teach me,</p> <p class="sl">Where I would give you to drink</p> <p class="sl1">spiced wine, my pomegranate<a id="rfn26008002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008002-1">*</a> juice.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v26008003" class="ver">3</span><a id="ren26008003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en26008003-b">b</a> His left hand is under my head,</p> <p class="sl1">and his right arm embraces me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v26008004" class="ver">4</span><a id="ren26008004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en26008004-c">c</a> I adjure you, Daughters of Jerusalem,</p> <p class="sl1">do not awaken or stir up love</p> <p class="sl1">until it is ready!</p> </div> <section> <h2 class="ah">The Return from the Desert</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span class="dispk">D?</span><a id="ren26008005-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en26008005-d">d</a></p> <p class="slf"><span class="ver">5</span>Who is this coming up from the desert,</p> <p class="sl1">leaning upon her lover?</p> <p class="sl"><span class="dispk">W</span></p> <p class="sl">Beneath the apple tree I awakened you;<a id="rfn26008005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008005-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">there your mother conceived you;</p> <p class="sl1">there she who bore you conceived.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">True Love</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v26008006" class="ver">6</span>Set me as a seal<a id="rfn26008006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008006-1">*</a> upon your heart,</p> <p class="sl1">as a seal upon your arm;</p> <p class="sl">For Love is strong as Death,</p> <p class="sl1">longing is fierce as Sheol.</p> <p class="sl">Its arrows are arrows of fire,</p> <p class="sl1">flames of the divine.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v26008007" class="ver">7</span><a id="ren26008007-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en26008007-e">e</a> Deep waters<a id="rfn26008007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008007-1">*</a> cannot quench love,</p> <p class="sl1">nor rivers sweep it away.</p> <p class="sl">Were one to offer all the wealth of his house for love,</p> <p class="sl1">he would be utterly despised.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">An Answer to the Brothers</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span class="dispk">W</span></p> <p class="slf"><span class="ver">8</span>“We have a little sister;<a id="rfn26008008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008008-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">she has no breasts as yet.</p> <p class="sl">What shall we do for our sister</p> <p class="sl1">on the day she is spoken for?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v26008009" class="ver">9</span>If she is a wall,</p> <p class="sl1">we will build upon her a silver turret;</p> <p class="sl">But if she is a door,</p> <p class="sl1">we will board her up with cedar planks.”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v26008010" class="ver">10</span>I am a wall,<a id="rfn26008010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008010-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and my breasts are like towers.</p> <p class="sl">I became in his eyes</p> <p class="sl1">as one who brings peace.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">A Boast</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v26008011" class="ver">11</span><span class="dispk">M?</span> Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;<a id="rfn26008011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008011-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">he gave over the vineyard to caretakers.</p> <p class="sl">For its fruit one would have to pay</p> <p class="sl1">a thousand silver pieces.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v26008012" class="ver">12</span>My vineyard is at my own disposal;</p> <p class="sl1">the thousand pieces are for you, Solomon,</p> <p class="sl1">and two hundred for the caretakers of its fruit.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">The Lovers’ Yearnings</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span class="dispk">M</span></p> <p class="slf"><span class="ver">13</span>You who dwell in the gardens,<a id="rfn26008013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn26008013-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">my companions are listening for your voice—</p> <p class="sl1">let me hear it!</p> <p class="sl"><span class="dispk">W</span><a id="ren26008014-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en26008014-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span class="ver">14</span>Swiftly, my lover,</p> <p class="sl1">be like a gazelle or a young stag</p> <p class="sl1">upon the mountains of spices.</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes 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