⁶ Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.^(A)
For love is as strong as death;^(B)
jealousy is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames^(C)—
an almighty flame!^[a]
7 A huge torrent cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealth^[b] for love,^(D)
it would be utterly scorned.

⁶ Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.^(A)
For love is as strong as death;^(B)
jealousy is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames^(C)—
an almighty flame!^[a]
7 A huge torrent cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealth^[b] for love,^(D)
it would be utterly scorned.