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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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>Song of Solomon 8 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../cmenus/songs/8.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" 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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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_1"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.1" class="v22_8_1">1</span>I wish that you were my brother,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_1">that my mother had nursed you at her breast.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_1">Then, if I met you in the street,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_1">I could kiss you and no one would mind.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.2" class="v22_8_2">2</span>I would take you to my mother's house,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_2">where you could teach me love.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_2">I would give you spiced wine,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_2">my pomegranate wine to drink.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.3" class="v22_8_3">3</span>Your left hand is under my head,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_3">and your right hand caresses me.</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>Promise me, women of Jerusalem,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_4">that you will not interrupt our love.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Sixth Song</h3><h5 class="sp">The Women</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.5" class="v22_8_5">5</span>Who is this coming from the desert,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_5">arm in arm with her lover?</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_5">Under the apple tree I woke you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_5">in the place 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>Close your heart to every love but mine;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_6">hold no one in your arms but me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_6">Love is as powerful as death;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_6">passion is as strong as death itself.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_6">It bursts into flame</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_6">and burns like a raging fire.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.7" class="v22_8_7">7</span>Water cannot put it out;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_7">no flood can drown it.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_7">But if any tried to buy love with their wealth,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_7">contempt is all they would get.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman's Brothers</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_8"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.8" class="v22_8_8">8</span>We have a young sister,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_8">and her breasts are still small.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_8">What will we do for her</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_8">when a young man comes courting?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.9" class="v22_8_9">9</span>If she is a wall,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_9">we will build her a silver tower.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_9">But if she is a gate,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_9">we will protect her with panels of cedar.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><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,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_10">and my breasts are its towers.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_10">My lover knows that with him</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_10">I find contentment and peace.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Man</h5><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">in a place called Baal Hamon.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_11">There are farmers who rent it from him;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_11">each one pays a thousand silver coins.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.12" class="v22_8_12">12</span>Solomon is welcome to his thousand coins,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_12">and the farmers to two hundred as their share;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_12">I have a vineyard of my own!</span></p><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>Let me hear your voice from the garden, my love;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_13">my companions are waiting to hear you speak.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_8_14"><span class="reftext" id="Song.8.14" class="v22_8_14">14</span>Come to me, my lover, like a gazelle,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_8_14">like a young stag on the mountains where spices grow.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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