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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>Song of Solomon 8 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../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="../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" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/songs/8-1.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> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Songs 8</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 id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/songs/8-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Longing for Her Beloved<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?</font><p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates.</font><p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.</font><p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Groom to Chorus: <font color=#CC0000>I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.</font><p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Chorus to Groom: <font color=#008800>Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?</font> <V 8:6>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.</font><p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames.</font><p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing.</font><p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Chorus: <font color=#008800>Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon?</font><p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=#008800>If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.</font><p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Bride to Chorus: <font color=#0000CC>I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, since, in his presence, I have become like one who has discovered peace.</font><p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver.</font><p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Groom: <font color=#CC0000>My vineyard is before me. The thousand is for your peacefulness, and two hundred is for those who care for its fruit.</font><p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Your friends are attentive to those who have been dwelling in the gardens. Cause me to heed your voice.</font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants.</font><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>