4. I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!
5. Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother conceived you; there she who was in labor gave birth to you.
6. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; passion is fierce as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire; it is a blazing flame.
7. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
8. We have a little sister, and she does not yet have any breasts. What should we do for our sister on the day when she is betrothed?
9. If she is a wall, we will adorn her with a turret of silver; but if she is a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar.
10. I was a wall, and my breasts were like the towers, so my betrothed viewed me with great delight.
11. Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he entrusted his vineyard to the keepers; people paid a thousand silver pieces for its fruit.
12. My own “vineyard” belongs to me; the “thousand” are for you, O Solomon, and “two hundred” for those who tend its fruit.
13. O you who dwell in the garden, my companions are listening to your voice. Let me hear it!
14. Flee, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the perfumed mountains!