8: 1 Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yes, and none would despise me.
8: 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, ⁸⁰Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the ⁸¹juice of my pomegranate.
⁸⁰Or, That thou mightest instruct me;
⁸¹Or, sweet wine of my pomegranate.

8: 3 His left hand should be under my head, And his right hand should embrace me.
8: 4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, ⁸²That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until ⁸³it please.
⁸²Hb. Why should ye stir up? or why awake etc.
⁸³Or, she or, he

8: 5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail ⁸⁴that brought thee forth.
⁸⁴Or, and

8: 6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is ⁸⁵cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, ⁸⁶A very flame of ⁸⁷Jehovah.
⁸⁵Hb. hard
⁸⁶Or, A most vehement flame
⁸⁷Hb. Jah

8: 7 Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, ⁸⁸He would utterly be despised.
⁸⁸Or, It

8: 8 We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for?
8: 9 If she be a wall, We will build upon her ⁸⁹a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar.
⁸⁹Or, battlements of silver:

8: 10 I ⁹⁰am a wall, and my breasts like the towers thereof: Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.
⁹⁰Or, was

8: 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver,
8: 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
8: 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken ⁹¹for thy voice: Cause me to hear it.
⁹¹Or, to

8: 14 ⁹²Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a ⁹³roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
⁹²Hb. Flee,
⁹³Or, gazelle