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 doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, 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 thee, I bring thee in unto my mother's house, She doth teach me, I cause thee to drink of the perfumed 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 doth 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 have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!
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, Hasting herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee, There she gave a pledge [that] bare thee.
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 thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings [are] burnings of fire, a flame of Jah! (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 give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down — they tread upon 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 breasts she hath not, 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 hath a vineyard in Baal-Hamon, He hath given the vineyard to keepers, Each bringeth for its fruit a thousand silverlings;
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 thousand [is] for thee, 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 thy 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!
