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[1]Oh that thou werest as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother: I would find thee without, I would kiss thee, then they should not despise thee.
[2]I will lead thee and bring thee into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me: and I will cause thee to drink spiced wine, and new wine of the pomegranate.
[3]His left hand shall be under mine head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
[4]I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor waken my love, until she please.
[5](Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness, leaning upon her wellbeloved?) I raised thee up under an apple tree: there thy mother conceived thee: there she conceived that bear thee.
[6]Set me as a seal on thine heart, and as a signet upon thine arm: for love is strong as death: jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are fiery coals, and a vehement flame.
[7]Much water cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: If a man should give all the substance of his house for love, they would greatly contemn it.
[8]We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister when she shall be spoken for?
[9]If she be a wall, we will build upon her a silver palace: and if she be a door, we will keep her in with boards of cedar.
[10]I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers: then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace.
[11]Solomon had a vine in Baal-hamon: he gave the vineyard unto keepers: every one bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
[12]But my vineyard which is mine, is before me: to thee, O Solomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of silver, and two thousand to them that keep the fruit thereof.
[13]O thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken unto thy voice: cause me to hear it.
[14]O my well-beloved, flee away, and be like unto the roe, or to the young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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