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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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">If Only You and I …</h3><h5 class="sp">She Speaks:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_1"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.1" class="v22_8_1">1</span>If you were my brother,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_1">I could kiss you</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_1">whenever we happen to meet,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_1">and no one would say</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_1">I did wrong.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.2" class="v22_8_2">2</span>I could take you to the home</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_2">of my mother,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_2">who taught me all I know.<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.8.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_2">I would give you delicious wine</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_2">and fruit juice as well.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.3" class="v22_8_3">3</span>Put your left hand under my head</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_3">and embrace me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_3">with your right arm.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_4"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.4" class="v22_8_4">4</span>Young women of Jerusalem,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_4">promise me never to awaken love</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_4">before it is ready.</span></p><h5 class="sp">Their Friends Speak:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.5" class="v22_8_5">5</span>Who is this young woman</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_5">coming in from the desert</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_5">and leaning on the shoulder</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_5">of the one she loves?</span></p><h5 class="sp">She Speaks:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_5">I stirred up your passions</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_5">under the apple tree</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_5">where you were born.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_6"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.6" class="v22_8_6">6</span>Always keep me in your heart</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_6">and wear this bracelet</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_6">to remember me by.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_6">The passion of love</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_6">bursting into flame</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_6">is more powerful than death,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_6">stronger than the grave.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.7" class="v22_8_7">7</span>Love cannot be drowned</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_7">by oceans or floods.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_7">It cannot be bought—</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_7">any offer would be scorned</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_7">no matter how great.</span></p><h5 class="sp">Their Friends Speak:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_8"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.8" class="v22_8_8">8</span>We have a little sister</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_8">whose breasts</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_8">are not yet formed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_8">If someone asks to marry her,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_8">what should we do?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.9" class="v22_8_9">9</span>She isn't a wall</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_9">that we can defend</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_9">behind a silver shield.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_9">Neither is she a room</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_9">that we can protect</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_9">behind a wooden door.</span></p><h5 class="sp">She Speaks:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_10"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.10" class="v22_8_10">10</span>I am a wall around a city,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_10">my breasts are towers,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_10">and just looking at me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_10">brings him great pleasure.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_11"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.11" class="v22_8_11">11</span>Solomon has a vineyard</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_11">at Baal-Hamon,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_11">which he rents to others</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_11">for a thousand pieces</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_11">of silver each.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.12" class="v22_8_12">12</span>My vineyard is mine alone!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_12">Solomon can keep his silver</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_12">and the others can keep</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_12">their share of the profits.</span></p><h5 class="sp">He Speaks:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_13"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.13" class="v22_8_13">13</span>You are in the garden</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_13">with friends all around.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_13">Let me hear your voice!</span></p><h5 class="sp">She Speaks:</h5><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_14"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.14" class="v22_8_14">14</span>Hurry to me, my darling!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_14">Run faster than a deer</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_14">to mountains of spices.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">who … know: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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