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# Chapter 8
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1 Oh that you were like a brother to me
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who nursed at my mother's breasts!
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If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
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and none would despise me.
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2 I would lead you and bring you
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into the house of my mother—
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she who used to teach me.
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I would give you spiced wine to drink,
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the juice of my pomegranate.
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3 His left hand is under my head,
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and his right hand embraces me!
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4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
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that you not stir up or awaken love
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until it pleases.
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5 Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
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leaning on her beloved?
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Under the apple tree I awakened you.
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There your mother was in labor with you;
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there she who bore you was in labor.
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6 Set me as a seal upon your heart,
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as a seal upon your arm,
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for love is strong as death,
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jealousy is fierce as the grave.
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Its flashes are flashes of fire,
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the very flame of the Lord.
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7 Many waters cannot quench love,
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neither can floods drown it.
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If a man offered for love
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all the wealth of his house,
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he would be utterly despised.
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8 We have a little sister,
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and she has no breasts.
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What shall we do for our sister
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on the day when she is spoken for?
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9 If she is a wall,
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we will build on her a battlement of silver,
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but if she is a door,
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we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
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10 I was a wall,
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and my breasts were like towers;
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then I was in his eyes
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as one who finds peace.
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11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
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he let out the vineyard to keepers;
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each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
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12 My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
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you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
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and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
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13 O you who dwell in the gardens,
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with companions listening for your voice;
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let me hear it.
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14 Make haste, my beloved,
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and be like a gazelle
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or a young stag
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on the mountains of spices. |