King James Version w/ Apocrypha KJVA
New International Version NIV
8 We 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 ?
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We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
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If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
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I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.
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.
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Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver.
12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
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But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
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You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
14 Make haste , my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
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