Song of Solomon 8
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?
1O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
2I will take hold of thee, and bring thee Into my mother’s house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.
2I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
3His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
3His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
4O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
5Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.
5Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
6Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.
6Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
7Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.
7Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
8Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?
8We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?
9If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar.
9If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver to protect her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
10I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.
10I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
11The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
11Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
12My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
12But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.
13You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!
14Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.
14Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
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