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

Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would 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 would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

3 left his underneath: under head my and right his to embrace me

His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace 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 adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

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 who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labour and bore you.

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 love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. (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 can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

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. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

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 will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards 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 like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found 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 had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

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 own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

13 ([the] to dwell *L(abh)*) in/on/with garden companion to listen to/for voice your to hear: hear me

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

14 to flee beloved my and to resemble to/for you to/for gazelle or to/for fawn [the] deer upon mountain: mount spice

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!