Song of Solomon 8
1O that thou were like my brother, 1 that nursed the breasts of immi (my mother)! 1 Then, if I should find thee outside, I would kiss thee; 1 yea, and no one would look down on me. 1
2I would lead thee, 1 and bring thee into bais immi. + 8:2 see 3:4 Thou wouldest instruct me; 1 I would cause thee to drink of spiced yayin 1 and the nectar of my pomegranate. 1
3His left hand should be under my rosh, 1 and his right hand embrace me. 1
4I charge you, O banot Yerushalayim, 1 that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah (the Love) 1 till it pleases. + 8:4 i.e., until its own time, see 2:7; 3:5 1
5Who is this that cometh up from the midbar, 1 leaning upon her beloved? 1 Under the tapuach (apple tree) I awakened thee; 1 it was there thy em conceived thee; 1 there she who brought thee forth conceived thee. 1
6Set me as a chotam (seal) upon thine lev, 1 as a chotam upon thine zero'a (arm); 1 for ahavah is strong as mavet (death); 1 kinah (jealousy) as unyielding as Sheol; 1 the flames thereof are flames of eish, 1 the flame of Hashem. 1
7Mayim rabbim (many waters) cannot quench HaAhavah, 1 neither can the floods drown it; 1 if a man would give 1 all the wealth of his bais for ahavah, 1 it would be utterly scorned. 1
8We have an achot ketannah (little sister), 1 and she hath as yet no breasts. 1 What shall we do for achoteinu (our sister) 1 in the day when she shall be spoken for? 1
9If she be a chomah (wall), 1 we will build upon her a pinnacle of kesef; 1 and if she be a delet (door), 1 we will enclose her with panels of cedar. 1
10I am a chomah (wall), and my breasts, like migdalot; 1 then was I in his eyes 1 like one that findeth shalom. 1
11Sh'lomo had a kerem (vineyard) at Ba'al-Hamon; 1 he gave over the kerem (vineyard) unto caretakers; 1 each had to pay a thousand pieces of kesef for the p'ri (fruit) thereof. 1
12My kerem (vineyard), which is mine, is at my own disposal; + 8:12 see 7:13 [14] 1 thou, O Sh'lomo, the thousand are for thee, 1 and two hundred for those that tend the p'ri thereof! 1
13Thou that dwellest in the ganim (gardens), 1 the chaverim are listening for thy voice; 1 cause me to hear it. 1
14Make haste, dodi (my beloved), 1 and be thou like to a gazelle 1 or a young deer upon the mountains where spices grow.