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SONG OF SOLOMON ยท Chapter 8
8:1 O that you were as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!
when I should find you without, I would kiss you; yea, I should not be
despised.
8:2 I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, who would
instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of
my pomegranate.
8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should
embrace me.
8:4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that all of you stir not
up, nor awake my love, until he please.
8:5 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her
beloved? I raised you up under the apple tree: there your mother brought
you forth: there she brought you forth that bare you.
8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for
love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof
are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.
8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it:
if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly
be contemned.
8:8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we
do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
8:9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and
if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes
as one that found favour.
8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto
keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces
of silver.
8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, must
have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
8:13 You that dwell in the gardens, the companions hearken to your
voice: cause me to hear it.
8:14 Make haste, my beloved, and be you like to a roe or to a young
hart upon the mountains of spices.
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