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Song of Solomon 8 NLT
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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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/songs/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Oh, I wish you were my brother,</p><p class="line2">who nursed at my mother’s breasts.</p><p class="line1">Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching,</p><p class="line2">and no one would criticize me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I would bring you to my childhood home,</p><p class="line2">and there you would teach me.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line1">I would give you spiced wine to drink,</p><p class="line2">my sweet pomegranate wine.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Your left arm would be under my head,</p><p class="line2">and your right arm would embrace me.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Promise me, O women of Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">not to awaken love until the time is right.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Women of Jerusalem</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who is this sweeping in from the desert,</p><p class="line2">leaning on her lover?</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1">I aroused you under the apple tree,</p><p class="line2">where your mother gave you birth,</p><p class="line2">where in great pain she delivered you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Place me like a seal over your heart,</p><p class="line2">like a seal on your arm.</p><p class="line1">For love is as strong as death,</p><p class="line2">its jealousy<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> as enduring as the grave.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="line1">Love flashes like fire,</p><p class="line2">the brightest kind of flame.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Many waters cannot quench love,</p><p class="line2">nor can rivers drown it.</p><p class="line1">If a man tried to buy love</p><p class="line2">with all his wealth,</p><p class="line2">his offer would be utterly scorned.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">The Young Woman’s Brothers</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>We have a little sister</p><p class="line2">too young to have breasts.</p><p class="line1">What will we do for our sister</p><p class="line2">if someone asks to marry her?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If she is a virgin, like a wall,</p><p class="line2">we will protect her with a silver tower.</p><p class="line1">But if she is promiscuous, like a swinging door,</p><p class="line2">we will block her door with a cedar bar.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I was a virgin, like a wall;</p><p class="line2">now my breasts are like towers.</p><p class="line1">When my lover looks at me,</p><p class="line2">he is delighted with what he sees.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-hamon,</p><p class="line2">which he leases out to tenant farmers.</p><p class="line1">Each of them pays a thousand pieces of silver</p><p class="line2">for harvesting its fruit.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But my vineyard is mine to give,</p><p class="line2">and Solomon need not pay a thousand pieces of silver.</p><p class="line1">But I will give two hundred pieces</p><p class="line2">to those who care for its vines.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O my darling, lingering in the gardens,</p><p class="line2">your companions are fortunate to hear your voice.</p><p class="line2">Let me hear it, too!</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Come away, my love! Be like a gazelle</p><p class="line2">or a young stag on the mountains of spices.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">there she will teach me.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">not to awaken love until it is ready.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:6a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">its passion.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:6b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">as Sheol.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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