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<div class="mt">The Song of Solomon </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 1</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; </div>
<div class="q2">for your love is better than wine. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. </div>
<div class="q2">Your name is oil poured out, </div>
<div class="q2">therefore the virgins love you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Take me away with you. </div>
<div class="q2">Let us hurry. </div>
<div class="q2">The king has brought me into his rooms. </div>
<div class="sp">Friends </div>
<div class="q">We will be glad and rejoice in you. </div>
<div class="q2">We will praise your love more than wine! </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q">They are right to love you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>I am dark, but lovely, </div>
<div class="q2">you daughters of Jerusalem, </div>
<div class="q2">like Kedar’s tents, </div>
<div class="q2">like Solomon’s curtains. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Don’t stare at me because I am dark, </div>
<div class="q2">because the sun has scorched me. </div>
<div class="q">My mother’s sons were angry with me. </div>
<div class="q2">They made me keeper of the vineyards. </div>
<div class="q2">I haven’t kept my own vineyard. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Tell me, you whom my soul loves, </div>
<div class="q2">where you graze your flock, </div>
<div class="q2">where you rest them at noon; </div>
<div class="q2">For why should I be as one who is veiled </div>
<div class="q2">beside the flocks of your companions? </div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, </div>
<div class="q2">follow the tracks of the sheep. </div>
<div class="q2">Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>I have compared you, my love, </div>
<div class="q2">to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, </div>
<div class="q2">your neck with strings of jewels. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>We will make you earrings of gold, </div>
<div class="q2">with studs of silver. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>While the king sat at his table, </div>
<div class="q2">my perfume spread its fragrance. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, </div>
<div class="q2">that lies between my breasts. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms </div>
<div class="q2">from the vineyards of En Gedi. </div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Behold,<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</span></a> you are beautiful, my love. </div>
<div class="q2">Behold, you are beautiful. </div>
<div class="q2">Your eyes are doves. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; </div>
<div class="q2">and our couch is verdant. </div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>The beams of our house are cedars. </div>
<div class="q2">Our rafters are firs. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 2</div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>I am a rose of Sharon, </div>
<div class="q2">a lily of the valleys. </div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>As a lily among thorns, </div>
<div class="q2">so is my love among the daughters. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, </div>
<div class="q2">so is my beloved among the sons. </div>
<div class="q">I sat down under his shadow with great delight, </div>
<div class="q2">his fruit was sweet to my taste. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>He brought me to the banquet hall. </div>
<div class="q2">His banner over me is love. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Strengthen me with raisins, </div>
<div class="q2">refresh me with apples; </div>
<div class="q2">For I am faint with love. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>His left hand is under my head. </div>
<div class="q2">His right hand embraces me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, </div>
<div class="q2">by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, </div>
<div class="q2">that you not stir up, nor awaken love, </div>
<div class="q2">until it so desires. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>The voice of my beloved! </div>
<div class="q2">Behold, he comes, </div>
<div class="q2">leaping on the mountains, </div>
<div class="q2">skipping on the hills. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. </div>
<div class="q2">Behold, he stands behind our wall! </div>
<div class="q">He looks in at the windows. </div>
<div class="q2">He glances through the lattice. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>My beloved spoke, and said to me, </div>
<div class="q2">“Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>For, behold, the winter is past. </div>
<div class="q2">The rain is over and gone. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>The flowers appear on the earth. </div>
<div class="q2">The time of the singing has come, </div>
<div class="q2">and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>The fig tree ripens her green figs. </div>
<div class="q2">The vines are in blossom. </div>
<div class="q2">They give out their fragrance. </div>
<div class="q">Arise, my love, my beautiful one, </div>
<div class="q2">and come away.” </div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>My dove in the clefts of the rock, </div>
<div class="q2">In the hiding places of the mountainside, </div>
<div class="q2">Let me see your face. </div>
<div class="q2">Let me hear your voice; </div>
<div class="q2">for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Catch for us the foxes, </div>
<div class="q2">the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; </div>
<div class="q2">for our vineyards are in blossom. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>My beloved is mine, and I am his. </div>
<div class="q2">He browses among the lilies. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, </div>
<div class="q2">turn, my beloved, </div>
<div class="q2">and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 3</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>By night on my bed, </div>
<div class="q2">I sought him whom my soul loves. </div>
<div class="q2">I sought him, but I didn’t find him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>I will get up now, and go about the city; </div>
<div class="q2">in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. </div>
<div class="q2">I sought him, but I didn’t find him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>The watchmen who go about the city found me; </div>
<div class="q2">“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?” </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>I had scarcely passed from them, </div>
<div class="q2">when I found him whom my soul loves. </div>
<div class="q">I held him, and would not let him go, </div>
<div class="q2">until I had brought him into my mother’s house, </div>
<div class="q2">into the room of her who conceived me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, </div>
<div class="q2">by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, </div>
<div class="q2">that you not stir up, nor awaken love, </div>
<div class="q2">until it so desires. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, </div>
<div class="q2">perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, </div>
<div class="q2">with all spices of the merchant? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! </div>
<div class="q2">Sixty mighty men are around it, </div>
<div class="q2">of the mighty men of Israel. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. </div>
<div class="q2">Every man has his sword on his thigh, </div>
<div class="q2">because of fear in the night. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>King Solomon made himself a carriage </div>
<div class="q2">of the wood of Lebanon. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>He made its pillars of silver, </div>
<div class="q2">its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, </div>
<div class="q2">the middle of it being paved with love, </div>
<div class="q2">from the daughters of Jerusalem. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, </div>
<div class="q2">with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, </div>
<div class="q2">in the day of his weddings, </div>
<div class="q2">in the day of the gladness of his heart. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 4</div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Behold, you are beautiful, my love. </div>
<div class="q2">Behold, you are beautiful. </div>
<div class="q">Your eyes are doves behind your veil. </div>
<div class="q2">Your hair is as a flock of goats, </div>
<div class="q2">that descend from Mount Gilead. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, </div>
<div class="q2">which have come up from the washing, </div>
<div class="q2">where every one of them has twins. </div>
<div class="q2">None is bereaved among them. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Your lips are like scarlet thread. </div>
<div class="q2">Your mouth is lovely. </div>
<div class="q2">Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, </div>
<div class="q2">whereon a thousand shields hang, </div>
<div class="q2">all the shields of the mighty men. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Your two breasts are like two fawns </div>
<div class="q2">that are twins of a roe, </div>
<div class="q2">which feed among the lilies. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, </div>
<div class="q2">I will go to the mountain of myrrh, </div>
<div class="q2">to the hill of frankincense. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>You are all beautiful, my love. </div>
<div class="q2">There is no spot in you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, </div>
<div class="q2">with me from Lebanon. </div>
<div class="q2">Look from the top of Amana, </div>
<div class="q2">from the top of Senir and Hermon, </div>
<div class="q2">from the lions’ dens, </div>
<div class="q2">from the mountains of the leopards. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. </div>
<div class="q2">You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, </div>
<div class="q2">with one chain of your neck. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! </div>
<div class="q2">How much better is your love than wine! </div>
<div class="q2">The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. </div>
<div class="q2">Honey and milk are under your tongue. </div>
<div class="q2">The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; </div>
<div class="q2">a locked up spring, </div>
<div class="q2">a sealed fountain. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: </div>
<div class="q2">henna with spikenard plants, </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>spikenard and saffron, </div>
<div class="q2">calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; </div>
<div class="q2">myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>a fountain of gardens, </div>
<div class="q2">a well of living waters, </div>
<div class="q2">flowing streams from Lebanon. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Awake, north wind; and come, you south! </div>
<div class="q2">Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. </div>
<div class="q">Let my beloved come into his garden, </div>
<div class="q2">and taste his precious fruits. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 5</div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. </div>
<div class="q2">I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; </div>
<div class="q2">I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; </div>
<div class="q2">I have drunk my wine with my milk. </div>
<div class="sp">Friends </div>
<div class="q">Eat, friends! </div>
<div class="q2">Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>I was asleep, but my heart was awake. </div>
<div class="q2">It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: </div>
<div class="q2">“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; </div>
<div class="q2">for my head is filled with dew, </div>
<div class="q2">and my hair with the dampness of the night.” </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? </div>
<div class="q2">I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. </div>
<div class="q2">My heart pounded for him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>I rose up to open for my beloved. </div>
<div class="q2">My hands dripped with myrrh, </div>
<div class="q2">my fingers with liquid myrrh, </div>
<div class="q2">on the handles of the lock. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>I opened to my beloved; </div>
<div class="q2">but my beloved left; and had gone away. </div>
<div class="q">My heart went out when he spoke. </div>
<div class="q2">I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. </div>
<div class="q2">I called him, but he didn’t answer. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>The watchmen who go about the city found me. </div>
<div class="q2">They beat me. </div>
<div class="q2">They bruised me. </div>
<div class="q2">The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, </div>
<div class="q2">If you find my beloved, </div>
<div class="q2">that you tell him that I am faint with love. </div>
<div class="sp">Friends </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>How is your beloved better than another beloved, </div>
<div class="q2">you fairest among women? </div>
<div class="q">How is your beloved better than another beloved, </div>
<div class="q">that you do so adjure us? </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>My beloved is white and ruddy. </div>
<div class="q2">The best among ten thousand. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>His head is like the purest gold. </div>
<div class="q2">His hair is bushy, black as a raven. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, </div>
<div class="q2">washed with milk, mounted like jewels. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. </div>
<div class="q2">His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. </div>
<div class="q2">His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. </div>
<div class="q2">His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>His mouth is sweetness; </div>
<div class="q2">yes, he is altogether lovely. </div>
<div class="q">This is my beloved, and this is my friend, </div>
<div class="q2">daughters of Jerusalem. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 6</div>
<div class="sp">Friends </div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? </div>
<div class="q2">Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>My beloved has gone down to his garden, </div>
<div class="q2">to the beds of spices, </div>
<div class="q2">to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. </div>
<div class="q2">He browses among the lilies, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, </div>
<div class="q2">lovely as Jerusalem, </div>
<div class="q2">awesome as an army with banners. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Turn away your eyes from me, </div>
<div class="q2">for they have overcome me. </div>
<div class="q">Your hair is like a flock of goats, </div>
<div class="q2">that lie along the side of Gilead. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, </div>
<div class="q2">which have come up from the washing; </div>
<div class="q2">of which every one has twins; </div>
<div class="q2">no one is bereaved among them. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, </div>
<div class="q2">and virgins without number. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>My dove, my perfect one, is unique. </div>
<div class="q2">She is her mother’s only daughter. </div>
<div class="q2">She is the favorite one of her who bore her. </div>
<div class="q">The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; </div>
<div class="q2">the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Who is she who looks out as the morning, </div>
<div class="q2">beautiful as the moon, </div>
<div class="q2">clear as the sun, </div>
<div class="q2">and awesome as an army with banners? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>I went down into the nut tree grove, </div>
<div class="q2">to see the green plants of the valley, </div>
<div class="q2">to see whether the vine budded, </div>
<div class="q2">and the pomegranates were in flower. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Without realizing it, </div>
<div class="q2">my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. </div>
<div class="sp">Friends </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Return, return, Shulammite! </div>
<div class="q2">Return, return, that we may gaze at you. </div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q">Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, </div>
<div class="q2">as at the dance of Mahanaim? </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 7</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! </div>
<div class="q2">Your rounded thighs are like jewels, </div>
<div class="q2">the work of the hands of a skillful workman. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Your body is like a round goblet, </div>
<div class="q2">no mixed wine is wanting. </div>
<div class="q">Your waist is like a heap of wheat, </div>
<div class="q2">set about with lilies. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Your two breasts are like two fawns, </div>
<div class="q2">that are twins of a roe. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Your neck is like an ivory tower. </div>
<div class="q2">Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. </div>
<div class="q2">Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Your head on you is like Carmel. </div>
<div class="q2">The hair of your head like purple. </div>
<div class="q2">The king is held captive in its tresses. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>How beautiful and how pleasant you are, </div>
<div class="q2">love, for delights! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>This, your stature, is like a palm tree, </div>
<div class="q2">your breasts like its fruit. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. </div>
<div class="q2">I will take hold of its fruit.” </div>
<div class="q">Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, </div>
<div class="q2">the smell of your breath like apples, </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Your mouth like the best wine, </div>
<div class="q2">that goes down smoothly for my beloved, </div>
<div class="q2">gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>I am my beloved’s. </div>
<div class="q2">His desire is toward me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field. </div>
<div class="q2">Let us lodge in the villages. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Let’s go early up to the vineyards. </div>
<div class="q2">Let’s see whether the vine has budded, </div>
<div class="q2">its blossom is open, </div>
<div class="q2">and the pomegranates are in flower. </div>
<div class="q2">There I will give you my love. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>The mandrakes produce fragrance. </div>
<div class="q2">At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, </div>
<div class="q2">which I have stored up for you, my beloved. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 8</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Oh that you were like my brother, </div>
<div class="q2">who nursed from the breasts of my mother! </div>
<div class="q">If I found you outside, I would kiss you; </div>
<div class="q2">yes, and no one would despise me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, </div>
<div class="q2">who would instruct me. </div>
<div class="q">I would have you drink spiced wine, </div>
<div class="q2">of the juice of my pomegranate. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>His left hand would be under my head. </div>
<div class="q2">His right hand would embrace me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, </div>
<div class="q2">that you not stir up, nor awaken love, </div>
<div class="q2">until it so desires. </div>
<div class="sp">Friends </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, </div>
<div class="q2">leaning on her beloved? </div>
<div class="q">Under the apple tree I aroused you. </div>
<div class="q2">There your mother conceived you. </div>
<div class="q2">There she was in labor and bore you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Set me as a seal on your heart, </div>
<div class="q2">as a seal on your arm; </div>
<div class="q2">for love is strong as death. </div>
<div class="q2">Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead. </span></a> </div>
<div class="q2">Its flashes are flashes of fire, </div>
<div class="q2">a very flame of Yahweh.<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</span></a> </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Many waters can’t quench love, </div>
<div class="q2">neither can floods drown it. </div>
<div class="q">If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, </div>
<div class="q2">he would be utterly scorned. </div>
<div class="sp">Friends </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>We have a little sister. </div>
<div class="q2">She has no breasts. </div>
<div class="q">What shall we do for our sister </div>
<div class="q2">in the day when she is to be spoken for? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>If she is a wall, </div>
<div class="q2">we will build on her a turret of silver. </div>
<div class="q">if she is a door, </div>
<div class="q2">we will enclose her with boards of cedar. </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, </div>
<div class="q2">then I was in his eyes like one who found peace. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. </div>
<div class="q2">He leased out the vineyard to keepers. </div>
<div class="q2">Each was to bring a thousand shekels<a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or about 22 pounds.</span></a> of silver for its fruit. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>My own vineyard is before me. </div>
<div class="q2">The thousand are for you, Solomon; </div>
<div class="q2">two hundred for those who tend its fruit. </div>
<div class="sp">Lover </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, </div>
<div class="q2">let me hear your voice! </div>
<div class="sp">Beloved </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Come away, my beloved! </div>
<div class="q2">Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices! </div>
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