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S.S.|8:1|-|Oh that you were like a |1|brother to me,Who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I found you |2|outside, I would kiss you,And none would despise me.
S.S.|8:2|-|I would lead you and bring youInto my |1|mother’s house,
Who has instructed me;I would make you drink spiced wine
From the juice of my pomegranate.
S.S.|8:3|-||a|His left hand would be under my head,And his right hand would embrace me.
S.S.|8:4|-||a|I |1|adjure you, O |b|daughters of Jerusalem,Do not rouse up or awaken my love
Until she pleases.
S.S.|8:5|-|Who is this who comes up from the |a|wilderness,|1|Leaning on her beloved?
|2|I awakened you under the apple tree:There your mother was in labor with you;
There she was in labor and brought you forth.
S.S.|8:6|-|Set me as a |1a|seal on your heart,As a seal on your arm;
For love is as strong as death,Jealousy is as cruel as |2|Sheol;
Its flashes are the flashes of fire,A flame of |3|Jehovah.
S.S.|8:7|-|Many waters cannot quench love,Nor do floods drown it.
If a man gave all the substance of his house for love,It would be utterly despised.
S.S.|8:8|-|We have a little |1|sister,And she has no breasts:
What shall we do for our sisterOn the day when she is spoken for?
S.S.|8:9|-|If she is a |1|wall,We will build on her a battlement of silver;
And if she is a |1|door,We will enclose her with boards of cedar.
S.S.|8:10|-|I am a |1|wall, and my breasts are like towers;Then I was in his eyes like one who has found peace.
S.S.|8:11|-|Solomon had a vineyard at |1|Baal-hamon:He let out the |a|vineyard to keepers;
Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
S.S.|8:12|-|My vineyard, which is mine, is before me.You will have the thousand, O Solomon;
And those who keep its fruit, two hundred.
S.S.|8:13|-|O you who dwell in the gardens,My companions listen for your |1a|voice;
Let me hear it.
S.S.|8:14|-||1a|Make haste, my beloved,And be like a gazelle or a young hart
Upon the mountains of spices.
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