2. Journey and Homecoming 8:5-14
Son 8:5
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.Son 8:6
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.Son 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.Son 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?Son 8:9
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.Son 8:10
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.Son 8:11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.Son 8:12
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.Son 8:13
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.Son 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.