Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:
    Do not arouse or awaken love
    until it so desires.(A)

Friends

Who is this coming up from the wilderness(B)
    leaning on her beloved?

She

Under the apple tree I roused you;
    there your mother conceived(C) you,
    there she who was in labor gave you birth.
Place me like a seal over your heart,
    like a seal on your arm;
for love(D) is as strong as death,
    its jealousy[a](E) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
    like a mighty flame.[b]
Many waters cannot quench love;
    rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
    all the wealth of one’s house for love,
    it[c] would be utterly scorned.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 8:6 Or ardor
  2. Song of Songs 8:6 Or fire, / like the very flame of the Lord
  3. Song of Songs 8:7 Or he

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