| 1: O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of
my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I
should not be despised. |
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| 2: I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who
would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the
juice of my pomegranate. |
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| 3:
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand
should embrace me. |
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| 4: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up,
nor awake my love, until he please. |
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| 5: Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon
her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother
brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. |
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| 6: Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals
thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. |
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| 7: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown
it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it
would utterly be contemned. |
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| 8: We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall
we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? |
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| 9: If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver:
and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. |
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| 10: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his
eyes as one that found favour. |
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| 11: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard
unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand
pieces of silver. |
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| 12: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon,
must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
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| 13: Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to
thy voice: cause me to hear it. |
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| 14: Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a
young hart upon the mountains of spices. |
