1Oh 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.2I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.3His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.5Who 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.6Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy* is fierce as the grave.* Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he* would be utterly despised.
Final Advice
8Others: We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?9If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.10She: I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds* peace.11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.12My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.13He: O you who dwell in the gardens, with companions listening for your voice; let me hear it.14She: Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
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