Take me away with you—let us hurry!
    Let the king bring me into his chambers.(A)

Friends

We rejoice and delight(B) in you[a];
    we will praise your love(C) more than wine.

She

How right they are to adore you!

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 1:4 The Hebrew is masculine singular.

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

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(A)Draw me away!

The Daughters of Jerusalem

(B)We will run after [a]you.

The Shulamite

The king (C)has brought me into his chambers.

The Daughters of Jerusalem

We will be glad and rejoice in [b]you.

We will remember your love more than wine.

The Shulamite

Rightly do they love you.

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  1. Song of Solomon 1:4 Masc. sing.: the Beloved
  2. Song of Solomon 1:4 Fem. sing.: the Shulamite

10 How delightful(A) is your love(B), my sister, my bride!
    How much more pleasing is your love than wine,(C)
and the fragrance of your perfume(D)
    more than any spice!

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10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

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10 How fair is your love,
My sister, my spouse!
(A)How much better than wine is your love,
And the [a]scent of your perfumes
Than all spices!

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:10 fragrance

Place me like a seal over your heart,
    like a seal on your arm;
for love(A) is as strong as death,
    its jealousy[a](B) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
    like a mighty flame.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 8:6 Or ardor
  2. Song of Songs 8:6 Or fire, / like the very flame of the Lord

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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The Shulamite to Her Beloved

(A)Set me as a seal upon your heart,
As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death,
(B)Jealousy as [a]cruel as [b]the grave;
Its flames are flames of fire,
[c]A most vehement flame.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:6 severe, lit. hard
  2. Song of Solomon 8:6 Or Sheol
  3. Song of Solomon 8:6 Lit. A flame of Yah, poetic form of YHWH, the Lord