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1 Oh
that thou wert as my brother,
That sucked the breasts of my mother!
[When] I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;
Yea, and none would despise me.
2
I would lead thee, [and]
bring thee into my mother's house,
Who would instruct me;
I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine,
Of the juice of my pomegranate.
3
His left hand [should be]
under my head,
And his right hand should embrace me.
4
I adjure you, O daughters of
Jerusalem,
That ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love,
Until he please.
5
Who is this that cometh up
from the wilderness,
Leaning upon her beloved?
Under the apple-tree I awakened
thee:
There thy mother was in travail with thee,
There was she in travail that brought thee forth.
6
Set me as a seal upon thy
heart,
As a seal upon thine arm:
For love is strong as death;
Jealousy is cruel as Sheol;
The flashes thereof are flashes of fire,
A very flame of Jehovah.
7
Many waters cannot quench
love,
Neither can floods drown it:
If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,
He would utterly be contemned.
8
We have a little sister,
And she hath no breasts:
What shall we do for our sister
In the day when she shall be spoken for?
9
If she be a wall,
We will build upon her a turret of silver:
And if she be a door,
We will inclose her with boards of cedar.
10
I am a wall, and my breasts
like the towers [thereof]
Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.
11
Solomon had a vineyard at
Baal-hamon;
He let out the vineyard unto keepers;
Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces]
of silver.
12
My vineyard, which is mine,
is before me:
Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand,
And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13
Thou that dwellest in the
gardens,
The companions hearken for thy voice:
Cause me to hear it.
14
Make haste, my beloved,
And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart
Upon the mountains of spices.