The Song of Solomon Chapter 8

The Lovers Speak

8:1 O that you [were] like my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find you without, I would kiss you; yea, I shouldn’t be despised.
8:2 I would lead you, and bring you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
8:4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, that ya’ll don’t stir up, or awake my love, until he please.
8:5 Who is this that comes up from the wildernessהַמִּדְבָּר
Transliteration: hammiḏbār in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here, leaning upon her beloved? I raised you up under the apple tree: there your mother brought you out: there she brought you out that bare you.
8:6 Set me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm: because love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals of it are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.
8:7 Many waters can’t quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would completely be contemned.
8:8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
8:9 If she were a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.
8:11 Solomonשְׁלֹמֹה‎
His two names mean “peaceful” and “friend of God”, both considered “predictive of the character of his reign Reign 970–931 BCE (hypothesized) For more info click here had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomonשְׁלֹמֹה‎
His two names mean “peaceful” and “friend of God”, both considered “predictive of the character of his reign Reign 970–931 BCE (hypothesized) For more info click here, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit of it two hundred.
8:13 You that lives in the gardens, the companions listen to your voice: cause me to hear it.
8:14 Hurry, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or to a young stag upon the mountains of spices.