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1Oh, that you were like a brother to me,
who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I found you outside,
I would kiss you,
and no one would despise me.
2#SS 3:4; Pr 9:2 I would lead you and bring you
into the house of my mother,
she who used to instruct me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranates.
3#SS 2:6 His left hand is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me!
4#SS 2:7; 3:5 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
do not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
Friends of the Woman
5#SS 3:6; 2:3 Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning upon her beloved?
The Woman
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.
6#Isa 49:16; Jer 22:24 Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its fires of desire are as ardent flames,
a most intense flame.
7#Pr 6:35 Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
it would be utterly condemned.
Brothers of the Woman
8We have a little sister,
and she has no breasts.
What will we do for our sister
on the day when she is spoken for?
9If she is a wall,
we will build upon her a battlement of silver;
but if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
The Woman
10#SS 4:5; Eze 16:7 I was a wall,
and my breasts were like towers;
then I was in his eyes
as one who finds peace.
11#Ecc 2:4; Isa 7:23 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon;
he leased the vineyard to keepers;
each man was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
12#SS 1:6 My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
The Man
13#SS 1:7 O you who dwell in the gardens,
my companions listen for your voice;
let me hear it!
The Woman
14#SS 2:17; 2:9 Make haste, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle or a young stag
on the mountains of spices!

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