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 Songs 8
8
1Oh that thou wert as my brother,
That sucked the breasts of my mother!
When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;
Yea, and none would despise me.
2I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house,
Who would instruct me;
I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine,
Of the juice of my pomegranate.
3His left hand should be under my head,
And his right hand should embrace me.
4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
That ye stir not up, nor awaken love,
Until it please.
5Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,
Leaning upon her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened thee:
There thy mother was in travail with thee,
There was she in travail that brought thee forth.
6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
For love is strong as death;
Jealousy is cruel as the grave:
The flashes thereof are flashes of fire,
A very flame of the LORD.
7Many waters cannot quench love,
Neither can the floods drown it:
If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,
He would utterly be contemned.
8We have a little sister,
And she hath no breasts:
What shall we do for our sister
In the day when she shall be spoken for?
9If she be a wall,
We will build upon her a turret of silver:
And if she be a door,
We will enclose her with boards of cedar.
10I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers thereof:
Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.
11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
He let out the vineyard unto keepers;
Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:
Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand,
And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
The companions hearken for thy voice:
Cause me to hear it.
14Make haste, my beloved,
And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart
Upon the mountains of spices.
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