Song of Solomon 8
1 who? to give: put you like/as brother: male-sibling to/for me to suckle breast mother my to find you in/on/with outside (to kiss you *L(abh)*) also not to despise to/for 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 to lead you to come (in): bring you to(wards) house: home mother my to learn: teach me to water: drink you from wine [the] spice from sweet 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 his underneath: under head my and right his to embrace me
His left hand [is] under my head, And his right embraces me.
4 to swear [obj] you daughter Jerusalem what? to rouse and what? to rouse [obj] [the] love till which/that to delight in
I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How you stir up, And how you wake the love until she pleases!
5 who? this to ascend: rise from [the] wilderness to lean upon beloved her underneath: under [the] apple to rouse you there [to] be in labour you mother your there [to] be in labour to beget 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 to set: make me like/as signet upon heart your like/as signet upon arm your for strong like/as death love severe like/as hell: Sheol jealousy flash her flash fire flame 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 water many not be able to/for to quench [obj] [the] love and river not to overflow her if to give: give man: anyone [obj] all substance house: home his in/on/with love to despise to despise to/for him
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 sister to/for us small and breast nothing to/for her what? to make: do to/for sister our in/on/with day which/that to speak: speak in/on/with 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 wall he/she/it to build upon her encampment silver: money and if door he/she/it to confine upon her tablet 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 wall and breast my like/as tower then to be in/on/with eye his like/as to find peace
I [am] a wall, and my breasts as towers, Then I have been in his eyes as one finding peace.
11 vineyard to be to/for Solomon in/on/with Baal-hamon Baal-hamon to give: give [obj] [the] vineyard to/for to keep man: anyone to come (in): bring in/on/with fruit his thousand silver: money
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/that to/for me to/for face: before my [the] thousand to/for you Solomon and hundred to/for to keep [obj] fruit his
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 ([the] to dwell *L(abh)*) in/on/with garden companion to listen to/for voice your to hear: hear me
The companions are attending to your voice, Cause me to hear. Flee, my beloved, and be like to a roe,
14 to flee beloved my and to resemble to/for you to/for gazelle or to/for fawn [the] deer upon mountain: mount spice
Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!
