Song of Solomon 8
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | JPS1917 |
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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, That thou mightest 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: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, Until it 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 and 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 the grave; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of the LORD. |
| 7 | Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can the 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 enclose 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 gave over the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof Brought in 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 gazelle or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices. |
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| 16 | — |