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Song of Songs 8 (Holman Christian Standard)

1 If only I could treat you like my brother,a one who nursed at my mother's breasts, I would find you in public and kiss you, and no one would scorn me. 2 I would lead you, I would take you, to the house of my motherb who taught me.c I would give you spiced wine to drink from my pomegranate juice. 3 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.d 4 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time.e

Young Women of Jerusalem

5 Who is thisf coming up from the wilderness, leaning on the one she loves? I awakened you under the apricot tree.g There your mother conceived you; there she conceived and gave you birth.

Woman

6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm.h For love is as strong as death;i ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol. Love's flames are fiery flamesj- the fiercest of all.k 7 Mighty waters cannot extinguish love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all his wealthl for love, it would be utterly scorned.

Brothers

8 Our sister is young; she has no breasts. What will we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for? 9 If she is a wall, we will build a silver parapet on it. If she is a door, we will enclose it with cedar planks.m

Woman

10 I amn a wall and my breasts like towers. So in his eyes I have become like one who finds peace.o 11 Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased the vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for his fruit 1,000 pieces of silver. 12 I have my own vineyard.pq The 1,000 are for you, Solomon, but 200 for those who guard its fruits.

Man

13 Your who dwell in the gardens- companionss are listening for your voice- let me hear you!t

Woman

14 Hurry [to me], my love, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.u
Study Tools Footnotes Cross References
a. Song of Songs 8:1 - Lit Would that you were like a brother to me
b. Song of Songs 8:2 - Sg 3:4
c. Song of Songs 8:2 - LXX adds and into the chamber of the one who bore me
d. Song of Songs 8:3 - Sg 2:6
e. Song of Songs 8:4 - Sg 2:7; 3:5
f. Song of Songs 8:5 - Sg 3:6; 6:10
g. Song of Songs 8:5 - Sg 2:3
h. Song of Songs 8:6 - Sg 2:16; 6:3; 7:10
i. Song of Songs 8:6 - 1 Co 13:8; Rm 8:38-39
j. Song of Songs 8:6 - Dt 32:21-22
k. Song of Songs 8:6 - Or the blaze of the Lord
l. Song of Songs 8:7 - Lit all the wealth of his house
m. Song of Songs 8:9 - Vv. 8-9 may record what the girl's brothers (Sg 1:6) used to say; Gn 24:29; 34:6-18.
n. Song of Songs 8:10 - Or was
o. Song of Songs 8:10 - Shalom, the Hb word for peace, sounds similar to Solomon and Shulammite in Hb.
p. Song of Songs 8:12 - Lit My vineyard, which is mine, is before me; Sg 1:6
q. Song of Songs 8:12 - Sg 1:6
r. Song of Songs 8:13 - You is feminine in Hb.
s. Song of Songs 8:13 - Sg 1:7
t. Song of Songs 8:13 - Sg 2:14
u. Song of Songs 8:14 - Sg 2:17
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