KJ3 Literal Translation
Song of Solomon 8
The love of the beloved to Christ. Love is stronger than death.
1Who can give You to me, as my brother, suckling the breasts of my mother? If I find You outside, I would kiss You. They also would not despise me.
2I would lead You; I would bring You into my mother's house, that You might teach me; I would cause You to drink the spiced wine from the juice of my pomegranate.
3His left hand would be under my head, and His right hand embracing me.
4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem; why do you awaken; yea, why do you awaken my Love until it pleases?
5Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her Beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree; there your mother travailed with you; there she travailed; she bore you.
6Set me as a seal on Your heart, as a seal on Your arm. For love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as Sheol; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Jehovah.
7Many waters cannot quench love, and the rivers will not overflow it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, despising they would despise him.
8A little sister is to us, and no breasts are to her. What shall we do for our sister in the day she shall be spoken for?
9If she is a wall, we will build a turret of silver on her. And if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
10I was a wall, and my breasts like towers; then I was in His eyes as one finding peace.
11A vineyard in Baal-hamon was to Solomon. He gave the vineyard to those keeping it; for its fruit each man was to bring a thousand of silver.
12My vineyard which is mine is before me; the thousand is for you, O Solomon, and two hundred for those keeping of its fruit.
13You who dwell in the gardens, the companions are listening to your voice; cause me to hear it.
14Hurry, my Beloved, and be like a gazelle, or a young deer, the stag, on the mountains of spices.
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