Song of Solomon 8
1 O that you were as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find you without, I would kiss you; yea, I should not be despised.
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 you, and bring you into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause you 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 charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that all of you stir not up, nor awake my love, until he 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 comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised you up under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bare you.
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 your heart, as a seal upon your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame. (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, it 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 has 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 palace 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 towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
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 Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring 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: you, O Solomon, must have a 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 You that dwell in the gardens, the companions hearken to your 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 you like to a roe 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.
