SONG OF SONGS From Solomon - Chapter Eight

1 

If only you were to me like a brother,
    who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!
Then, if I found you outside,
    I would kiss you,
    and no one would despise me.

2 

I would lead you
    and bring you to my mother’s house –
    she who has taught me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
    the nectar of my pomegranates.

3 

His left arm is under my head
    and his right arm embraces me.

4 

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:
    do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.

Friends

5 

Who is this coming up from the wilderness
    leaning on her beloved?

She

Under the apple tree I roused you;
    there your mother conceived you,
    there she who was in labour gave you birth.

6 

Place me like a seal over your heart,
    like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
    its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
    like a mighty flame.

7 

Many waters cannot quench love;
    rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
    all the wealth of one’s house for love,
    it would be utterly scorned.

Friends

8 

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 is a wall,
    we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
    we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

She

10 

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 in Baal Hamon;
    he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
    a thousand shekels of silver.

12 

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.

He

13 

You who dwell in the gardens
    with friends in attendance,
    let me hear your voice!

She

14 

Come away, my beloved,
    and be like a gazelle
or like a young stag
    on the spice-laden mountains.

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READING 

SONG OF SONGS From Solomon

Chapter Eight

Read by David Suchet

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OVERVIEW 

SONG OF SONGS From Solomon

Overview

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STUDIES 

SONG OF SONGS From Solomon

David Pawson

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SONG OF SONGS - Chapter 8

Baruch Korman

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