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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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/songs/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>If only you were to me like a brother,</p><p class="line2">who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!</p><p class="line1">Then, if I found you outside,</p><p class="line2">I would kiss you,</p><p class="line2">and no one would despise me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I would lead you</p><p class="line2">and bring you to my mother’s house—</p><p class="line2">she who has taught me.</p><p class="line1">I would give you spiced wine to drink,</p><p class="line2">the nectar of my pomegranates.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>His left arm is under my head</p><p class="line2">and his right arm embraces me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:</p><p class="line2">Do not arouse or awaken love</p><p class="line2">until it so desires.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">Friends</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who is this coming up from the wilderness</p><p class="line2">leaning on her beloved?</p></div></div><div class="speech"><p class="speaker">She</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">Under the apple tree I roused you;</p><p class="line2">there your mother conceived you,</p><p class="line2">there she who was in labor gave you birth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Place me like a seal over your heart,</p><p class="line2">like a seal on your arm;</p><p class="line1">for love is as strong as death,</p><p class="line2">its jealousy <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or ardor">a</a></sup></span> unyielding as the grave.</p><p class="line1">It burns like blazing fire,</p><p class="line2">like a mighty flame. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or fire, like the very flame of the LORD">b</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Many waters cannot quench love;</p><p class="line2">rivers cannot sweep it away.</p><p class="line1">If one were to give</p><p class="line2">all the wealth of one’s house for love,</p><p class="line2">it <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or he">c</a></sup></span> would be utterly scorned.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">Friends</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>We have a little sister,</p><p class="line2">and her breasts are not yet grown.</p><p class="line1">What shall we do for our sister</p><p class="line2">on the day she is spoken for?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If she is a wall,</p><p class="line2">we will build towers of silver on her.</p><p class="line1">If she is a door,</p><p class="line2">we will enclose her with panels of cedar.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">She</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am a wall,</p><p class="line2">and my breasts are like towers.</p><p class="line1">Thus I have become in his eyes</p><p class="line2">like one bringing contentment.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon;</p><p class="line2">he let out his vineyard to tenants.</p><p class="line1">Each was to bring for its fruit</p><p class="line2">a thousand shekels <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12">d</a></sup></span> of silver.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But my own vineyard is mine to give;</p><p class="line2">the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,</p><p class="line2">and two hundred <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms">e</a></sup></span> are for those who tend its fruit.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">He</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You who dwell in the gardens</p><p class="line2">with friends in attendance,</p><p class="line2">let me hear your voice!</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">She</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Come away, my beloved,</p><p class="line2">and be like a gazelle</p><p class="line1">or like a young stag</p><p class="line2">on the spice-laden mountains.</p></div></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>ardor</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>fire,<br />     like the very flame of the <span class="name">Lord</span></i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>he</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a 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