Berean Standard Bible

Song of Songs 8:5-14

5Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved?

I roused you under the apple tree;there your mother conceived you;there she travailed and brought you forth.

6Set me as a seal over your heart,as a seal upon your arm.For love is as strong as death,its jealousy1 as unrelenting as Sheol.Its sparks are fiery flames,the fiercest blaze of all.7Mighty waters cannot quench love;rivers cannot sweep it away.If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love,his offer would be utterly scorned.

8We have a little sister,and her breasts are not yet grown.What shall we do for our sisteron the day she is spoken for?9If she is a wall,we will build a tower of silver upon her.If she is a door,we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

10I am a wall,and my breasts are like towers.So I have become in his eyeslike one who brings peace.11Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon.He leased it to the tenants.For its fruit, each was to bringa thousand shekels of silver.212But my own vineyard is mine to give;the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon,and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.

13You who dwell in the gardens,my companions are listening for your voice.Let me hear it!

14Come away, my beloved,and be like a gazelleor a young stagon the mountains of spices.

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1. Song of Songs 8:6 Or passion ↩
2. Song of Songs 8:11 Hebrew a thousand of silver; that is, approximately 25.1 pounds or 11.4 kilograms of silver ↩

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