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When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>His left hand'should be under my head, And his right hand should embrace me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.</p> <p class="hdg">The Friends</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth.</p> <p class="hdg">Solomon</p><p class="reg"><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 Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.</p> <p class="hdg">The Friends</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.</p> <p class="hdg">The Bride</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers thereof Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.</p> <p class="hdg">Solomon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken for thy voice: Cause me to hear it.</p> <p class="hdg">The Bride</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">American Standard Version, 1901<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/songs/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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