4. Promise me, women of Jerusalem,that you will not interrupt our love.
5. Who is this coming from the desert,arm in arm with her lover?Under the apple tree I woke you,in the place where you were born.
6. Close your heart to every love but mine;hold no one in your arms but me.Love is as powerful as death;passion is as strong as death itself.It bursts into flameand burns like a raging fire.
7. Water cannot put it out;no flood can drown it.But if anyone tried to buy love with wealth,contempt is all they would get.
8. We have a young sister,and her breasts are still small.What will we do for herwhen a young man comes courting?
9. If she is a wall,we will build her a silver tower.But if she is a gate,we will protect her with panels of cedar.
10. I am a wall,and my breasts are its towers.My lover knows that with himI find contentment and peace.
11. Solomon has a vineyardin a place called Baal Hamon.There are farmers who rent it from him;each one pays a thousand silver coins.