SONG OF SONGS Chapter 8 (GNB)
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8:1
I wish that you were my brother, that my mother had nursed you at her breast.
Then, if I met you in the street, I could kiss you and no one would mind.
8:2
I would take you to my mother's house, where you could teach me love. I would
give you spiced wine, my pomegranate wine to drink.
8:3
Your left hand is under my head, and your right hand caresses me.
8:4
Promise me, women of Jerusalem, that you will not interrupt our love.
8:5
Who is this coming from the desert, arm in arm with her lover? Under the apple
tree I woke you, in the place where you were born.
8:6
Close your heart to every love but mine; hold no one in your arms but me. Love
is as powerful as death; passion is as strong as death itself. It bursts into
flame and burns like a raging fire.
8:7
Water cannot put it out; no flood can drown it. But if any tried to buy love
with their wealth, contempt is all they would get.
8:8
We have a young sister, and her breasts are still small. What will we do for
her when a young man comes courting?
8:9
If she is a wall, we will build her a silver tower. But if she is a gate, we
will protect her with panels of cedar.
8:10
I am a wall, and my breasts are its towers. My lover knows that with him I find
contentment and peace.
8:11
Solomon has a vineyard in a place called Baal Hamon. There are farmers who rent
it from him; each one pays a thousand silver coins.
8:12
Solomon is welcome to his thousand coins, and the farmers to two hundred as
their share; I have a vineyard of my own!
8:13
Let me hear your voice from the garden, my love; my companions are waiting to
hear you speak.
8:14
Come to me, my lover, like a gazelle, like a young stag on the mountains where
spices grow.
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