Song of Solomon 8 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?</font> Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me. If only you were to me like a brother, who was nursed at my mother’s breasts! Then, if I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
2 <font color=#0000CC>I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates.</font> I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate. I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house— she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
3 <font color=#0000CC>His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.</font> His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! His left arm is under my head and his right arm embraces me.
4 Groom to Chorus: <font color=#CC0000>I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.</font> I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
5 Chorus to Groom: <font color=#008800>Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?</font> <V 8:6>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.</font> Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor. Who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved? She Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth.
6 <font color=#CC0000>Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames.</font> Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
7 <font color=#CC0000>A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing.</font> Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
8 Chorus: <font color=#008800>Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon?</font> We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for? We 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?
9 <font color=#008800>If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.</font> If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
10 Bride to Chorus: <font color=#0000CC>I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, since, in his presence, I have become like one who has discovered peace.</font> I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace. I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.
11 <font color=#0000CC>The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver.</font> Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver.
12 Groom: <font color=#CC0000>My vineyard is before me. The thousand is for your peacefulness, and two hundred is for those who care for its fruit.</font> My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred. But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
13 Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Your friends are attentive to those who have been dwelling in the gardens. Cause me to heed your voice.</font> O you who dwell in the gardens, with companions listening for your voice; let me hear it. You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
14 <font color=#0000CC>Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants.</font> Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices. Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
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