Longing for Her Beloved
1
Oh 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 none would despise me.
2
I would lead you and 1bring you into the house of my mother—she who used to teach me. I would give you 2spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.
5
7Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.
6
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as 8a seal upon your arm, for 9love is strong as death, 10jealousya is fierce as the grave. b Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very 11flame of the Lord.
7
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his 12house, hec would be utterly despised.
Final Advice
Others
8
We have a little sister, and she 13has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?
9
If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with 14boards of cedar.
She
10
15I was a wall, and my 16breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who findsd peace.
11
Solomon had 17a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he 18let out the vineyard to 19keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit 20a thousand pieces of silver.
12
My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and 21the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
He
She
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