The Song of Solomon 8

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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 ⚑

² I would lead thee and bring thee into my other’s house who would instruct me I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate ⚑

³ His left hand should be under my head and his right hand should embrace me ⚑

⁴ I charge you O daughters of Jerusalem that ye stir not up nor awake my love until he please ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

¹⁰ I am a wall and my breasts like towers then was I in his eyes as one that found favour ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

¹³ Thou that dwellest in the gardens the companions hearken to thy voice cause me to hear it ⚑

¹⁴ Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain