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Song of Solomon 8:1

The Maiden’s Fanciful Wish

8 ⌊How I wish that you were my little brother⌋,a b

who nursed ⌊upon my mother’s breasts⌋!c

If ⌊I met you outside⌋,d I would kiss you,

⌊and no one would despise me⌋!e

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a	Literally “O that he would give you like a brother to me”
b	The Hebrew construction (which is somewhat misleading if rendered in a woodenly literal sense) is an idiom expressing one’s fanciful wish
c	Literally “at the breast of my mother”
d	Literally “I will find you in the street”
e	Literally “also they would not despise me”