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.

Who makes you as a brother to me, Suckling the breasts of my mother? I find you outside, I kiss you, Indeed, they do not despise me,

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.

I lead you, I bring you into my mother’s house, She teaches me, I cause you to drink of the spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate,

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

His left hand [is] under my head, And his right embraces me.

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

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How you stir up, And how you wake the love until she pleases!

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 from the wilderness, Hastening herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have awoken you, There your mother pledged you, There she [who] bore you gave a pledge.

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 h7585)

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings [are] burnings of fire, a flame of YAH! (Sheol h7585)

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.

Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one gives all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down—they tread on it.

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 little sister, and she does not have breasts, What do we do for our sister, In the day that it is told of 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 build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar.

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 as towers, Then I have been in his eyes as one finding peace.

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 has a vineyard in Ba‘al-Hamon, He has given the vineyard to keepers, Each brings for its fruit one thousand pieces of silver;

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.

My vineyard—my own—is before me, The one thousand [is] for you, O Solomon. And the two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!

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

The companions are attending to your voice, Cause me to hear. Flee, my beloved, and be like to a roe,

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

Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!