Longing for Her Beloved 1 UDB I wish that everyone knew that we love each other, just as they all know that I have a brother, my own brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts. Then whenever I met you outside, I could kiss you, and no one would criticize me. BSB BSB: O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
2 UDB No one would object if I led you to our mother's house, to where our mother, who taught me so many things, lives. I would like to take you to our mother's house so I could make love to you there. That would be as delightful as juice squeezed from pomegranates, as wine mixed with spices. BSB BSB: I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
3 UDB Oh yes! He will put his left arm under my head, and he will hold me close with his right arm. BSB BSB: His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
4 UDB I want you to promise me, you women of Jerusalem, that you will not disturb us while we are making love until we are ready to stop." BSB BSB: O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
The Friends 5 UDB Who is that woman who is coming up from the wilderness, the woman who is leaning on the man who loves her? I woke you up when you were under the apricot tree at the place where your mother conceived you, the place where she gave birth to you. BSB BSB: Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
The Bride 7 UDB Nothing can stop us from loving each other, not even a flood. If a man tried to cause a woman to love him by saying he would give her everything that is in his house, she would refuse. BSB BSB: Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
The Friends 8 UDB We have a younger sister, and her breasts are not large yet. So this is what we should do for her on the day that we promise some young man that he can marry her: BSB BSB: 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 UDB If her chest is as flat as a wall, we will decorate it by putting silver jewels that are like towers on her. If she is as flat as a door, we will decorate her with bits of cedar wood. BSB BSB: If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
The Bride 10 UDB My chest was previously flat like a wall, but now my breasts are big like towers. So I am delightful to my beloved. BSB BSB: I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
11 UDB King Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon, and he rented it to people for them to farm it. He required each one to pay him one thousand pieces of silver each year for the grapes that they harvested. BSB BSB: Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
12 UDB But my body is like my own vineyard, and you, my lover whom I call "Solomon," I am giving it to you. You do not need to pay me a thousand pieces of silver to enjoy my body, but I will give two hundred pieces of silver to those who take care of me. BSB BSB: But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
The Bridegroom 13 UDB You are staying in the gardens, my friends are listening to your voice; so allow me to hear it, too! BSB BSB: You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!
The Bride 14 UDB You who love me, come to me quickly; run to me like a gazelle or young deer, because I am as delightful as hills of spices. BSB BSB: Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
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