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.

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