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UST SNG Chapter 8

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8 I wish that you were like my brother,

my own brother, who nursed from my mother’s breasts when he was a baby.

Because then, whenever I met you outside the house, I could kiss you,

and no one would criticize me.

2 I would like to bring you to my mother’s house,

to where my mother, who taught me so many things, lives.

I would like to take you to my mother’s house so I could have sexual relations with you there.

Having sexual relations with you would be as if I were giving you spiced wine to drink, as if I were giving you sweet pomegranate wine.

3 The man I love has placed his left arm under my head

and he holds me close with his right arm.

The

4 You young women of Jerusalem,

I want you to solemnly promise me,

that you will not cause people to love romantically

until it is the right time.

The

5 Look at this woman who is coming up from the wilderness,

the woman who is leaning on the man she loves!

The

I woke you up when you were under the apple tree

at the place where your mother was in labor with you,

the place where you were born.

6 Keep me close to you,

like a seal that rests against your chest as it hangs down from its cord,

or like a seal worn on your bracelet.

The strength with which I love you is as powerful as the strength of death;

it is as strong as the grave.

It is as though our love for each other bursts into flames,

and as though our love is the lightening that Yahweh creates.

7 We love each other so deeply,

that how we love each other can be compared to a strong fire that no river or flood can put out.

If a man tried to cause a woman to love him by saying he would give her everything that he owns,

she would refuse.

The

8 We have a young sister,

and her breasts are not large yet.

What should we do for her at the time that we promise some young man that he can marry her?

9 We will protect her virginity,

as if we were soldiers building a battlement of silver to protect a wall.

We will protect her virginity,

like we would protect a door from intruders by covering it with boards made of cedar wood.

The

10 Like a wall that allows no one to enter, I have remained a virgin and let no man come into me;

but now my breasts are large like towers.

So I am delightful to my beloved.

11 King Solomon had a vineyard at a place called Baal Hamon,

and he rented it to people for them to farm it.

He required each one to pay him one thousand pieces of silver each year for the grapes that they harvested.

12 But my body is like my own vineyard, which is mine to give to the man whom I choose.

Solomon can keep the one thousand pieces of silver that he receives from renting his vineyard,

and the farmers who take care of it for him can keep the two hundred pieces of silver he pays them.

The

13 You, the woman I love, who are staying in the gardens,

my friends are eagerly listening so that they can hear you speak;

speak to me!

The

14 You who I love, come to me quickly!

Run to me like a gazelle or a young male deer

runs across mountains where spices grow.

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