Song of Solomon 8章 ESV

Longing for Her Beloved

1Oh that you were like a brother to me

who nursed at my mother’s breasts!

If I found you outside, I would kiss you,

and none would despise me.

2I would lead you and 8:2 ch. 3:4bring you

into the house of my mother—

she who used to teach me.

I would give you 8:2 [Prov. 9:2, 5]spiced wine to drink,

the juice of my pomegranate.

38:3 ch. 2:6, 7His left hand is under my head,

and his right hand embraces me!

4I 8:4 See ch. 2:7adjure you, O 8:4 See ch. 1:5daughters of Jerusalem,

8:4 [ch. 2:7]that you not stir up or awaken love

until it pleases.

58:5 See ch. 3:6Who is that coming up from the wilderness,

leaning on her beloved?

Under the apple tree I awakened you.

There your mother was in labor with you;

there she who bore you was in labor.

6Set me as a seal upon your heart,

as 8:6 Isa. 49:16; Jer. 22:24; Hag. 2:23a seal upon your arm,

for 8:6 [Rom. 8:35] love is strong as death,

8:6 [Ex. 34:14]; Deut. 4:24jealousy8:6 Or ardor is fierce as the grave.8:6 Hebrew as Sheol

Its flashes are flashes of fire,

the very 8:6 [Job 1:16]flame of the Lord.

7Many waters cannot quench love,

neither can floods drown it.

If a man offered for love

all the wealth of his 8:7 Prov. 6:35house,

he8:7 Or it would be utterly despised.

Final Advice

Others

8We have a little sister,

and she 8:8 [Ezek. 16:7]has no breasts.

What shall we do for our sister

on the day when she is spoken for?

9If she is a wall,

we will build on her a battlement of silver,

but if she is a door,

we will enclose her with 8:9 [1 Kgs. 6:15]boards of cedar.

She

108:10 [ch. 4:12, 13] I was a wall,

and my 8:10 [ch. 4:5; 7:3]breasts were like towers;

then I was in his eyes

as one who finds8:10 Or brings out peace.

11Solomon had 8:11 Eccles. 2:4a vineyard at Baal-hamon;

he 8:11 [Matt. 21:33] let out the vineyard to 8:11 ch. 1:6keepers;

each one was to bring for its fruit 8:11 [Isa. 7:23]a thousand pieces of silver.

12My vineyard, my very own, is before me;

you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,

and 8:12 See Prov. 27:18the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

He

138:13 [ch. 5:1] O you who dwell in the gardens,

with 8:13 ch. 1:7companions listening for your voice;

8:13 ch. 2:14let me hear it.

She

148:14 [Rev. 22:17, 20] Make haste, my beloved,

and be 8:14 See ch. 2:9like a gazelle

or a young stag

on 8:14 [ch. 4:6]the mountains of spices.

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