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- Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother!
Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me.
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- I would lead thee, bring thee into my mother's house;
Thou wouldest instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.
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- His left hand would be under my head, And his right hand embrace me.
- 4
- I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, … Why should ye stir up, why awake [my] love, till he please?
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- Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved?
I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth [that] bore thee.
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- 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, Flames of Jah.
- 7
- Many waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it: Even if a man gave 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?
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- 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 towers;
Then was I in his eyes as one that findeth 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 silver-pieces.
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- My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: The thousand [silver-pieces] be to thee, Solomon;
And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred.
- 13
- Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken to thy voice: Let me hear [it].
- 14
- Haste, my beloved, And be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
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