Song of Songs 8
8
Woman:
1How I wish you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! Then if I met you on the street I could kiss you and no one would tell me off. 2Then I could take you home to my mother's house, where she used to teach me.#8:2. Or “To the room of the one who bore me,” paralleling 3:4. I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranate. 3He supports my head with his left hand, and holds me close with his right. 4Women of Jerusalem, swear to me that you won't disturb our love until the right time.
Women of Jerusalem:
5Who is this coming in from the wilderness holding her love close to her?
Woman:
I woke you up under the apple tree where your mother conceived you, and where she gave birth to you.#8:5. What this means is unclear. 6Stamp my name as a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm,#8:6. As an indication of ownership. for love is strong as death, passion as unyielding as the grave—its arrows flash like fire, a blazing flame of the Lord. 7Floods of water cannot extinguish love; rivers cannot submerge it. If a man offered everything he owned in order to buy love he would be completely rejected.
Woman's brothers:
8We have a younger sister whose breasts are still small. What shall we do for our sister when someone asks to marry her? 9If she is a wall, we will build a silver tower on it. But if she is a door, we will bar the way with cedar planks.#8:9. Some take the image of the wall as representing virginity, and the door as someone who is promiscuous. In any case, the woman identifies herself as a wall in the following verse, indicating faithfulness in any case.
Woman:
10I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So when he looks at me he's happy!#8:10. Literally, “Then in his eyes I am as one who brings peace.” The woman is contradicting her brothers and is saying she is mature.
Woman:#8:11. Some believe the man is speaking the following verses.
11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon which he leased to tenant farmers. Each of them paid him one thousand silver coins for the fruit it produced. 12But I own my vineyard, it is mine alone. One thousand silver coins are for you, Solomon, and two hundred for those who look after it.
Man:
13My darling, sitting there in the gardens with companions listening to you—please talk to me!
Woman:
14Come quickly, my love! Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.
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Song of Solomon 8
8
1Oh, that you were like my brother,
Who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I should find you outside,
I would kiss you;
I would not be despised.
2I would lead you and bring you
Into the #Song 3:4house of my mother,
She who used to instruct me.
I would cause you to drink of #Prov. 9:2spiced wine,
Of the juice of my pomegranate.
(To the Daughters of Jerusalem)
3#Song 2:6His left hand is under my head,
And his right hand embraces me.
4#Song 2:7; 3:5I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.
Love Renewed in Lebanon
A Relative
5#Song 3:6Who is this coming up from the wilderness,
Leaning upon her beloved?
I awakened you under the apple tree.
There your mother brought you forth;
There she who bore you brought you forth.
The Shulamite to Her Beloved
6#Is. 49:16; Jer. 22:24; Hag. 2:23Set me as a seal upon your heart,
As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death,
#Prov. 6:34, 35Jealousy as cruel as the grave;
Its flames are flames of fire,
A most vehement flame.
7Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can the floods drown it.
#Prov. 6:35If a man would give for love
All the wealth of his house,
It would be utterly despised.
The Shulamite’s Brothers
8#Ezek. 23:33We have a little sister,
And she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
In the day when she is spoken for?
9If she is a wall,
We will build upon her
A battlement of silver;
And if she is a door,
We will enclose her
With boards of cedar.
The Shulamite
10I am a wall,
And my breasts like towers;
Then I became in his eyes
As one who found peace.
11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon;
#Matt. 21:33He leased the vineyard to keepers;
Everyone was to bring for its fruit
A thousand silver coins.
(To Solomon)
12My own vineyard is before me.
You, O Solomon, may have a thousand,
And those who tend its fruit two hundred.
The Beloved
13You who dwell in the gardens,
The companions listen for your voice—
#Song 2:14Let me hear it!
The Shulamite
14#Rev. 22:17, 20Make haste, my beloved,
And #Song 2:7, 9, 17be like a gazelle
Or a young stag
On the mountains of spices.
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