Song of Solomon 8

8O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!

When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;

Yea, ^†I should not be despised.

²I would lead thee, and ^abring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me:

I would cause thee to drink of ^bspiced wine of the ^cjuice of my ^dpomegranate.

^3eHis left hand should be under my head,

^eAnd his right hand should embrace me.

^4fI charge you, ^gO daughters of Jerusalem,

^†That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

^5hWho is this that cometh up from the wilderness,

Leaning upon her beloved?

I ⁱraised thee up under the ^kapple tree:

There thy mother brought thee forth:

There she brought thee forth that bare thee.

⁶Set me as a seal upon thine heart,

As ^la seal upon thine arm:

For ^mlove is strong as death;

ⁿJealousy is ^†cruel as the grave:

The ^ocoals thereof are coals of fire,

Which hath ^pa most vehement ^qflame.

⁷Many waters cannot quench love,

Neither can the floods drown it:

ⁱIf a man would give all the substance of his house for love,

It would utterly be contemned.

⁸We have a little sister, and ^rshe hath no breasts:

What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

⁹If she be a wall, we will build upon her a ^spalace of silver:

And if she be a door, we will inclose her with ^tboards of cedar.

¹⁰I am a wall, and my breasts like ^utowers:

Then was I in his eyes as one that found ^†favour.

¹¹Solomon had a ^vvineyard at ^wBaal-hamon;

^xHe let out the vineyard unto ^ykeepers;

Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring ^za thousand pieces of silver.

¹²My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:

Thou, O Solomon, must have ^za thousand,

And ^ythose that keep the fruit thereof ^atwo hundred.

^13bThou that dwellest in the gardens,

^cThe companions hearken to thy voice:

^dCause me to hear it.

^14e†Make haste, my beloved,

And ^fbe thou like to a roe or to a young hart

Upon the mountains of spices.