< Song of Solomon 8 >
1 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.
How I wish you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! Then if I met you on the street I could kiss you and no one would tell me off.
2 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.
Then I could take you home to my mother's house, where she used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranate.
3 Left [hand] his [is] under head my and right [hand] his it embraces me.
He supports my head with his left hand, and holds me close with his right.
4 I adjure you O daughters of Jerusalem why? will you awaken - and why? will you arouse love until that it will please.
Women of Jerusalem, swear to me that you won't disturb our love until the right time.
5 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.
Who is this coming in from the wilderness holding her love close to her? Woman: I woke you up under the apple tree where your mother conceived you, and where she gave birth to you.
6 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 )
Stamp my name as a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm, for love is strong as death, passion as unyielding as the grave—its arrows flash like fire, a blazing flame of the Lord. (Sheol )
7 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.
Floods of water cannot extinguish love; rivers cannot submerge it. If a man offered everything he owned in order to buy love he would be completely rejected.
8 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.
We have a younger sister whose breasts are still small. What shall we do for our sister when someone asks to marry her?
9 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.
If she is a wall, we will build a silver tower on it. But if she is a door, we will bar the way with cedar planks.
10 I [was] a wall and breasts my [are] like towers then I was in view his like [one who] finds peace.
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So when he looks at me he's happy!
11 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.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon which he leased to tenant farmers. Each of them paid him one thousand silver coins for the fruit it produced.
12 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.
But I own my vineyard, it is mine alone. One thousand silver coins are for you, Solomon, and two hundred for those who look after it.
13 (O [one who] dwells *L(abh)*) in the gardens companions [are] listening for voice your cause to hear [it] me.
My darling, sitting there in the gardens with companions listening to you—please talk to me!
14 Hasten - O lover my and be like yourself a gazelle or [the] fawn of the deer on mountains of spices.
Come quickly, my love! Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.