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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Songs: The Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon or Canticles)</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/bsb/cmenus/songs/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bsb/topmenuchap/songs/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > Songs</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/ecclesiastes/12.htm" title="Ecclesiastes 12"></a> Song of Solomon <a href="/bsb/songs/2.htm" title="Song of Solomon 2"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 1</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/1.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">The Bride Confesses Her Love (<a hlef ="../ephesians/5.htm#22">Ephesians 5:22–33</a>; <a hlef ="../1_peter/3.htm">1 Peter 3:1–7</a>)<a href="/songs/1-1.htm">1</a>This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.<a href="#fn">a</a> The Bride<a href="/songs/1-2.htm">2</a>Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine. <a href="/songs/1-3.htm">3</a>The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you. <a href="/songs/1-4.htm">4</a>Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. The Friends We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Bride It is only right that they adore you. <a href="/songs/1-5.htm">5</a>I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. <a href="/songs/1-6.htm">6</a>Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected. <a href="/songs/1-7.htm">7</a>Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions? The Friends<a href="/songs/1-8.htm">8</a>If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds. The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/1-9.htm">9</a>I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. <a href="/songs/1-10.htm">10</a>Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. The Friends<a href="/songs/1-11.htm">11</a>We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with beads of silver. The Bride<a href="/songs/1-12.htm">12</a>While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance. <a href="/songs/1-13.htm">13</a>My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts. <a href="/songs/1-14.htm">14</a>My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi. The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/1-15.htm">15</a>How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. The Bride<a href="/songs/1-16.htm">16</a>How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed. The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/1-17.htm">17</a>The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 1 a Most translators add subheadings for speaker identifications such as The Bride , The Groom , and The Friends  based on the gender and number of the Hebrew words. </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/songs/1.htm" title="Song of Solomon 1"></a> Song of Solomon 2 <a href="/bsb/songs/3.htm" title="Song of Solomon 3"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 2</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/2.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">The Bride’s AdmirationThe Bride<a href="/songs/2-1.htm">1</a>I am a rose of Sharon,<a href="#fn">a</a> a lily of the valley. The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/2-2.htm">2</a>Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens. The Bride<a href="/songs/2-3.htm">3</a>Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. <a href="/songs/2-4.htm">4</a>He has brought me to the house of wine,<a href="#fn">b</a> and his banner over me is love. <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">5</a>Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. <a href="/songs/2-6.htm">6</a>His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. <a href="/songs/2-7.htm">7</a>O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right. <a href="/songs/2-8.htm">8</a>Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. <a href="/songs/2-9.htm">9</a>My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice. <a href="/songs/2-10.htm">10</a>My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one. <a href="/songs/2-11.htm">11</a>For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. <a href="/songs/2-12.htm">12</a>The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing<a href="#fn">c</a> has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land. <a href="/songs/2-13.htm">13</a>The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.” The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/2-14.htm">14</a>O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely. The Friends<a href="/songs/2-15.htm">15</a>Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom. The Bride<a href="/songs/2-16.htm">16</a>My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies. <a href="/songs/2-17.htm">17</a>Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.<a href="#fn">d</a> <A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 1 a Sharon Plain is a region in the coastal plain of Israel 4 b That is, the banquet hall 12 c Or pruning  17 d Or the rugged mountains  </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/songs/2.htm" title="Song of Solomon 2"></a> Song of Solomon 3 <a href="/bsb/songs/4.htm" title="Song of Solomon 4"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 3</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/3.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">The Bride’s Dream<a href="/songs/3-1.htm">1</a>On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him. <a href="/songs/3-2.htm">2</a>I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him. <a href="/songs/3-3.htm">3</a>I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?” <a href="/songs/3-4.htm">4</a>I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me. <a href="/songs/3-5.htm">5</a>O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right. Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day<a href="/songs/3-6.htm">6</a>Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant? <a href="/songs/3-7.htm">7</a>Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage,<a href="#fn">a</a> escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel. <a href="/songs/3-8.htm">8</a>All are skilled with the sword, experienced in warfare. Each has his sword at his side prepared for the terror of the night. <a href="/songs/3-9.htm">9</a>King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon. <a href="/songs/3-10.htm">10</a>He has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem. <a href="/songs/3-11.htm">11</a>Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 7 a That is, the couch on which servants carry a king </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/songs/3.htm" title="Song of Solomon 3"></a> Song of Solomon 4 <a href="/bsb/songs/5.htm" title="Song of Solomon 5"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 4</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/4.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">Solomon Admires His BrideThe Bridegroom<a href="/songs/4-1.htm">1</a>How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead. <a href="/songs/4-2.htm">2</a>Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost. <a href="/songs/4-3.htm">3</a>Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate. <a href="/songs/4-4.htm">4</a>Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. <a href="/songs/4-5.htm">5</a>Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies. <a href="/songs/4-6.htm">6</a>Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense. <a href="/songs/4-7.htm">7</a>You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw. <a href="/songs/4-8.htm">8</a>Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend<a href="#fn">a</a> from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards. <a href="/songs/4-9.htm">9</a>You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck. <a href="/songs/4-10.htm">10</a>How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices. <a href="/songs/4-11.htm">11</a>Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon. <a href="/songs/4-12.htm">12</a>My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. <a href="/songs/4-13.htm">13</a>Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, <a href="/songs/4-14.htm">14</a>with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices. <a href="/songs/4-15.htm">15</a>You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water<a href="#fn">b</a> flowing down from Lebanon. The Bride<a href="/songs/4-16.htm">16</a>Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 8 a Or Look down  15 b Or flowing water  or living water  </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/songs/4.htm" title="Song of Solomon 4"></a> Song of Solomon 5 <a href="/bsb/songs/6.htm" title="Song of Solomon 6"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 5</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/5.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">The Bride and Her BelovedThe Bridegroom<a href="/songs/5-1.htm">1</a>I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. The Friends Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved. The Bride<a href="/songs/5-2.htm">2</a>I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.” <a href="/songs/5-3.htm">3</a>I have taken off my robe— must I put it back on? I have washed my feet— must I soil them again? <a href="/songs/5-4.htm">4</a>My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him. <a href="/songs/5-5.htm">5</a>I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt. <a href="/songs/5-6.htm">6</a>I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer. <a href="/songs/5-7.htm">7</a>I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls. <a href="/songs/5-8.htm">8</a>O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love. The Friends<a href="/songs/5-9.htm">9</a>How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so? The Bride<a href="/songs/5-10.htm">10</a>My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand. <a href="/songs/5-11.htm">11</a>His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven. <a href="/songs/5-12.htm">12</a>His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels. <a href="/songs/5-13.htm">13</a>His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh. <a href="/songs/5-14.htm">14</a>His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires. <a href="/songs/5-15.htm">15</a>His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars. <a href="/songs/5-16.htm">16</a>His mouth<a href="#fn">a</a> is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 16 a Hebrew palate  </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/songs/5.htm" title="Song of Solomon 5"></a> Song of Solomon 6 <a href="/bsb/songs/7.htm" title="Song of Solomon 7"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 6</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/6.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">Together in the GardenThe Friends<a href="/songs/6-1.htm">1</a>Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you. The Bride<a href="/songs/6-2.htm">2</a>My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies. <a href="/songs/6-3.htm">3</a>I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies. The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/6-4.htm">4</a>You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners. <a href="/songs/6-5.htm">5</a>Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. <a href="/songs/6-6.htm">6</a>Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost. <a href="/songs/6-7.htm">7</a>Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate. <a href="/songs/6-8.htm">8</a>There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number, <a href="/songs/6-9.htm">9</a>but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises. The Friends<a href="/songs/6-10.htm">10</a>Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession? The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/6-11.htm">11</a>I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom. <a href="/songs/6-12.htm">12</a>Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.<a href="#fn">a</a> The Friends<a href="/songs/6-13.htm">13</a>Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. The Bridegroom Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim<a href="#fn">b</a>?<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 12 a Or among the chariots of Amminadab  13 b Or the dance of the two camps  </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/songs/6.htm" title="Song of Solomon 6"></a> Song of Solomon 7 <a href="/bsb/songs/8.htm" title="Song of Solomon 8"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 7</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/7.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">Admiration by the Bridegroom<a href="/songs/7-1.htm">1</a>How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master. <a href="/songs/7-2.htm">2</a>Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies. <a href="/songs/7-3.htm">3</a>Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. <a href="/songs/7-4.htm">4</a>Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus. <a href="/songs/7-5.htm">5</a>Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses. <a href="/songs/7-6.htm">6</a>How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! <a href="/songs/7-7.htm">7</a>Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit. <a href="/songs/7-8.htm">8</a>I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, <a href="/songs/7-9.htm">9</a>and your mouth<a href="#fn">a</a> like the finest wine. The Bride May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.<a href="#fn">b</a> <a href="/songs/7-10.htm">10</a>I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me. <a href="/songs/7-11.htm">11</a>Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.<a href="#fn">c</a> <a href="/songs/7-12.htm">12</a>Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love. <a href="/songs/7-13.htm">13</a>The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 9 a Hebrew palate  9 b LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; Hebrew gliding gently over lips as we sleep  11 c Or among the henna blossoms  or in the villages  </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/songs/7.htm" title="Song of Solomon 7"></a> Song of Solomon 8 <a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm" title="Isaiah 1"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Song of Solomon 8</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/songs/8.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">Longing for Her Beloved<a href="/songs/8-1.htm">1</a>O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me. <a href="/songs/8-2.htm">2</a>I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. <a href="/songs/8-3.htm">3</a>His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. <a href="/songs/8-4.htm">4</a>O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right. The Friends<a href="/songs/8-5.htm">5</a>Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? The Bride I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth. <a href="/songs/8-6.htm">6</a>Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy<a href="#fn">a</a> as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. <a href="/songs/8-7.htm">7</a>Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned. The Friends<a href="/songs/8-8.htm">8</a>We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for? <a href="/songs/8-9.htm">9</a>If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver to protect her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar. The Bride<a href="/songs/8-10.htm">10</a>I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace. <a href="/songs/8-11.htm">11</a>Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.<a href="#fn">b</a> <a href="/songs/8-12.htm">12</a>But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit. The Bridegroom<a href="/songs/8-13.htm">13</a>You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it! The Bride<a href="/songs/8-14.htm">14</a>Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 6 a Or passion  11 b Hebrew a thousand of silver ; that is, approximately 25.1 pounds or 11.4 kilograms of silver </div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> The Berean Bible (<a href="http://berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href="http://bereanbible.com">Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2018 by <a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="http://berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a>. Used by Permission. 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