1 O that I might find thee without, and kiss thee, whom I love as my brother which sucked my mother's breasts: and that thou wouldest not be offended,
2 if I took thee, and brought thee into my mother's house - that thou mightest teach me, and that I might give thee drink of spiced wine and of the sweet sap of my pomegranates.
3 His left hand lieth under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
4 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye wake not up my love, nor touch her, till she be content herself. What is she, this that cometh up from the wilderness, and leaneth upon her love?
5 I am the same that waked thee up among the apple trees, where thy mother bare thee, where thy mother brought thee in to the world.
6 O set me as a seal upon thine heart, and as a seal upon thine arm: for love is mighty as the death, and jealousy as the hell. Her coals are of fire, and a very flame of the LORD:
7 so that many waters are not able to quench love, neither may the streams drown it. Yea, if a man would give all the good of his house for love, he should count it nothing.
8 Our sister is but young, and hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister when she shall be spoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we shall build a silver bulwark thereupon: if she be an open door, we shall fasten her with boards of Cedar tree.
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then was I as one that hath found favour in his sight.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; this vineyard delivered he unto the keepers, that every one for the fruit thereof should give him a thousand pieces of silver.
12 But my vineyard, O Solomon, giveth thee a thousand, and two hundred to the keepers of the fruit.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, O let me hear thy voice, that my companions may hearken to the same.