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Song of Solomon 8:4-6
Easy-to-Read Version
Song of Solomon 8:4-6
Easy-to-Read Version
4 Women of Jerusalem, promise me,
don’t awaken love,
don’t arouse love, until I am ready.[a]
The Women of Jerusalem Speak
5 Who is this woman
coming from the desert, leaning on her lover?
She Speaks to Him
I woke you under the apple tree,
where your mother gave birth to you,
where you were born.
6 Keep me near you like a seal you wear over your heart,
like a signet ring you wear on your hand.
Love is as strong as death.
Passion is as strong as the grave.[b]
Its sparks become a flame,
and it grows to become a great fire[c]!
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 8:4 until I am ready Literally, “until it desires.”
- Song of Solomon 8:6 the grave Or “Sheol,” the place where dead people go.
- Song of Solomon 8:6 great fire Or “the flame of the Lord.”
Song of Songs 8:4-6
New International Version
Song of Songs 8:4-6
New International Version
4 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.(A)
Friends
5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness(B)
leaning on her beloved?
She
Under the apple tree I roused you;
there your mother conceived(C) you,
there she who was in labor gave you birth.
6 Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love(D) is as strong as death,
its jealousy[a](E) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.[b]
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or ardor
- Song of Songs 8:6 Or fire, / like the very flame of the Lord
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