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📚✭O that you were like a brother to me,who nursed at the breasts of my mother!
When I found you outside,
I would kiss you.
Yes, I would not be despised.
2 📚✭I would lead you, and bring you into
my mother’s house, who instructed me.
I would have you drink spiced wine
from the juice of my pomegranate.
3 📚His left hand would be under my head,
and his right hand would embrace me.
4 📚I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
not to arouse or awaken my love,
until he pleases.
Friends
5 📚Who is this who comes up from the desert✭,
leaning on her beloved?
Bride
I awakened you under the apple tree.
There your mother brought you forth.
There she who bore you brought
you forth.
Love’s strength
6 📚Set me like a seal✭ over your heart,
like a seal on your arm.
For love is strong as death✭;
Jealousy✭ is severe as the grave✭;
its coals are coals of fire,
with a very fierce flame.
7 📚✭Many waters cannot quench love,
nor can the floods drown it.
If a man were to give all the wealth
of his house for love,
it would be utterly despised.
Love’s concern
Friends
8 📚✭We have a little sister, and she has
no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister in
the day when she is spoken for?
9 📚If she is a wall, we will build a
palace of silver on her,
and if she is a door, we will enclose
her with panels of cedar.
Bride
10 📚✭I am a wall, and my breasts are
like towers.
Then I was in his eyes like one who
found peace.
11 📚Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon.
He let out the vineyard to caretakers.
For its fruit each one was to bring a
thousand pieces of silver.
12 📚My vineyard, which is mine, is before me.
The thousand shekels are ✭for you,
O Solomon, and two hundred for
Those who watch over its fruit.
Love’s longing
Bridegroom
13 📚✭O you who dwell in the gardens,
companions listen to your voice.
cause me to hear it.
Bride
14 📚✭Hurry, my beloved, and be like a
gazelle or a young stag on the
mountains of spices.