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width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/songs/8.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Lovers Reunited at Their Country Home</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Song-8-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Oh, that you were like my brother,</span></span><br /><span class="text Song-8-1">Who nursed at my mother’s breasts!</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-1"><i>If</i> I should find you outside,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-1">I would kiss you;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-1">I would not be despised.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I would lead you <i>and</i> bring you</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-2">Into the house of my mother,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-2">She <i>who</i> used to instruct me.</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-2">I would cause you to drink of spiced wine,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-2">Of the juice of my pomegranate.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> (To the Daughters of Jerusalem)</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-3"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>His left hand <i>is</i> under my head,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-3">And his right hand embraces me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-4">Do not stir up nor awaken love</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-4">Until it pleases.</span></p></div> <h3> Love Renewed in Lebanon</span></h3><h4 class="speaker"><span class="text Song-8-5">A Relative</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-5"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who <i>is</i> this coming up from the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-5">Leaning upon her beloved?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-5">I awakened you under the apple tree.</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-5">There your mother brought you forth;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-5">There she <i>who</i> bore you brought <i>you</i> forth.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Shulamite to Her Beloved</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-6"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Set me as a seal upon your heart,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-6">As a seal upon your arm;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-6">For love <i>is as</i> strong as death,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-6">Jealousy <i>as</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>cruel as <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>the grave;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-6">Its flames <i>are</i> flames of fire,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-6"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>A most vehement flame.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Many waters cannot quench love,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-7">Nor can the floods drown it.</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-7">If a man would give for love</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-7">All the wealth of his house,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-7">It would be utterly despised.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Shulamite’s Brothers</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-8"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>We have a little sister,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-8">And she has no breasts.</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-8">What shall we do for our sister</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-8">In the day when she is spoken for?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If she <i>is</i> a wall,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-9">We will build upon her</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-9">A battlement of silver;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-9">And if she <i>is</i> a door,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-9">We will enclose her</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-9">With boards of cedar.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-10"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I <i>am</i> a wall,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-10">And my breasts like towers;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-10">Then I became in his eyes</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-10">As one who found peace.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-11">He leased the vineyard to keepers;</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-11">Everyone was to bring for its fruit</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-11">A thousand silver <i>coins</i>.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> (To Solomon)</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-12"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My own vineyard <i>is</i> before me.</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-12">You, O Solomon, <i>may have</i> a thousand,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-12">And those who tend its fruit two hundred.</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Beloved</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-13"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You who dwell in the gardens,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-13">The companions listen for your voice—</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-13">Let me hear it!</span></p></div> <h4 class="speaker"> The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Song-8-14"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Make<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span> haste, my beloved,</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-14">And be like a gazelle</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-14">Or a young stag</span><br /><span class="text Song-8-14">On the mountains of spices.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-17647a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 8:6">Song of Solomon 8:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>severe,</i> lit. <i>hard</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17647b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 8:6">Song of Solomon 8:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sheol</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17647c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 8:6">Song of Solomon 8:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>A flame of <span class="small-caps">Yah</span></i>, poetic form of <i>YHWH, the <span class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17655d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Song of Solomon 8:14">Song of Solomon 8:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Hurry,</i> lit. <i>Flee</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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