Song of Solomon 8

1 Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.

Who? will he give you like a brother to me [the] suckling-child of [the] breasts of mother my I will find you on the outside (I will kiss you *L(abh)*) also not people will despise me.

2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

I will lead you I will bring you to [the] house of mother my [who] she taught me I will give to drink you some of [the] wine of spice some of [the] juice of pomegranate my.

3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

Left [hand] his [is] under head my and right [hand] his it embraces me.

4 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, until it please?'

I adjure you O daughters of Jerusalem why? will you awaken - and why? will you arouse love until that it will please.

5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth.

Who? this [is] coming up from the wilderness leaning herself on lover her under the apple tree I aroused you there she was in labor with you mother your there she was in labor she bore you.

6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. (Sheol h7585)

Put me like seal on heart your like seal on arm your for [is] strong like death love [is] severe like Sheol jealousy flashes its [are] flashes of fire a flame of [the] Lord. (Sheol h7585)

7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be contemned.

Waters many not they are able to extinguish love and rivers not they will overflow it if he will give anyone all [the] wealth of house his for love certainly people will despise it.

8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

A sister [belongs] to us small and breasts not [belong] to her what? will we do for sister our on the day when it will be spoken for her.

9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver; and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

If [is] a wall she we will build on her a battlement of silver and if [is] a door she we will shut up over her a board of cedar.

10 I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers thereof; then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.

I [was] a wall and breasts my [are] like towers then I was in view his like [one who] finds peace.

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he gave over the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof brought in a thousand pieces of silver.

A vineyard it belonged to Solomon at Baal-Hamon he gave the vineyard to [those who] keep each one he will bring for fruit its a thousand silver.

12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me; thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

Vineyard my which [belongs] to me [is] before me the thousand [shekels] [belong] to you O Solomon and two hundred [shekels] [belong] to [those who] keep fruit its.

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice: 'Cause me to hear it.'

(O [one who] dwells *L(abh)*) in the gardens companions [are] listening for voice your cause to hear [it] me.

14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Hasten - O lover my and be like yourself a gazelle or [the] fawn of the deer on mountains of spices.