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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"><div class="poetry"> <p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>O that you were like a brother to me,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who nursed at my mother’s breast!</span></span><br /><span class="text">If I met you outside, I would kiss you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and no one would despise me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>I would lead you and bring you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">into the house of my mother,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and into the chamber of the one who bore me.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19713a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">I would give you spiced wine to drink,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the juice of my pomegranates.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>O that his left hand were under my head,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and that his right hand embraced me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not stir up or awaken love</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">until it is ready!</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Homecoming</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Who is that coming up from the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">leaning upon her beloved?</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">Under the apple tree I awakened you.</span><br /><span class="text">There your mother was in labor with you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">there she who bore you was in labor.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Set me as a seal upon your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">as a seal upon your arm;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for love is strong as death,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">passion fierce as the grave.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Its flashes are flashes of fire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a raging flame.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Many waters cannot quench love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">neither can floods drown it.</span></span><br /><span class="text">If one offered for love</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">all the wealth of one’s house,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it would be utterly scorned.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>We have a little sister,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and she has no breasts.</span></span><br /><span class="text">What shall we do for our sister,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">on the day when she is spoken for?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>If she is a wall,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">we will build upon her a battlement of silver;</span></span><br /><span class="text">but if she is a door,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">we will enclose her with boards of cedar.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>I was a wall,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my breasts were like towers;</span></span><br /><span class="text">then I was in his eyes</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">as one who brings<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19721b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> peace.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he entrusted the vineyard to keepers;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>My vineyard, my very own, is for myself;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the keepers of the fruit two hundred!</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>O you who dwell in the gardens,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my companions are listening for your voice;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let me hear it.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Make haste, my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and be like a gazelle</span></span><br /><span class="text">or a young stag</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">upon the mountains of spices!</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 8:2">Song of Solomon 8:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>my mother; she (</i>or <i>you) will teach me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 8:10">Song of Solomon 8:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>finds</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div 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