Bible, King James Version
Song_of_Solomon
Cant.8
[1] O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the
breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would
kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
[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 charge 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? I raised thee up under the apple tree:
there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth
that bare thee.
[6] Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon
thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the
grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most
vehement flame.
[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, it 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 palace 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 towers: then was I
in his eyes as one that found favour.
[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, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit
thereof two hundred.
[13] Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions
hearken to 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.
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