1. Oh, that you were like a brother to me,who nursed at my mother’s breasts!If I found you outside,I would kiss you,and no one would despise me.
2. I would lead you and bring youinto the house of my mother,she who used to instruct me.I would give you spiced wine to drink,the juice of my pomegranates.
3. His left hand is under my head,and his right arm embraces me!
4. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,do not stir up or awaken loveuntil it pleases.
5. Who is that coming up from the wilderness,leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you.There your mother was in labor with you;there she who bore you was in labor.
6. Set me as a seal upon your heart,as a seal upon your arm;for love is strong as death,passion fierce as the grave.Its fires of desire are as ardent flames,a most intense flame.
7. Many waters cannot quench love,neither can floods drown it.If a man offered for loveall the wealth of his house,it would be utterly condemned.
8. We have a little sister,and she has no breasts.What will we do for our sisteron the day when she is spoken for?
9. If she is a wall,we will build upon her a battlement of silver;but if she is a door,we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
10. I was a wall,and my breasts were like towers;then I was in his eyesas one who finds peace.
11. Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon;he leased the vineyard to keepers;each man was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
12. My vineyard, my very own, is before me;you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
13. O you who dwell in the gardens,my companions listen for your voice;let me hear it!
14. Make haste, my beloved,and be like a gazelle or a young stagon the mountains of spices!