Song of Songs 8:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Song of Songs 8:1 NLT
Oh, I wish you were my brother, who nursed at my mother’s breasts. Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching, and no one would criticize me.
Song of Songs 8:2 NLT
I would bring you to my childhood home, and there you would teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, my sweet pomegranate wine.
Song of Songs 8:5 NLT
Who is this sweeping in from the desert, leaning on her lover? I aroused you under the apple tree, where your mother gave you birth, where in great pain she delivered you.
Song of Songs 8:6 NLT
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.
Song of Songs 8:7 NLT
Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.
Song of Songs 8:9 NLT
If she is a virgin, like a wall, we will protect her with a silver tower. But if she is promiscuous, like a swinging door, we will block her door with a cedar bar.
Song of Songs 8:10 NLT
I was a virgin, like a wall; now my breasts are like towers. When my lover looks at me, he is delighted with what he sees.
Song of Songs 8:11 NLT
Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-hamon, which he leases out to tenant farmers. Each of them pays a thousand pieces of silver for harvesting its fruit.
Song of Songs 8:12 NLT
But my vineyard is mine to give, and Solomon need not pay a thousand pieces of silver. But I will give two hundred pieces to those who care for its vines.
Song of Songs 8:13 NLT
O my darling, lingering in the gardens, your companions are fortunate to hear your voice. Let me hear it, too!
Song of Songs 8:14 NLT
Come away, my love! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.