Song of Songs

²I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates. ↗

³His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. ↗

⁷Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames. ↗

⁸A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing. ↗

¹⁰If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar. ↗

¹²The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver. ↗

¹⁵Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants. ↗