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Song of Songs 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Song of Songs 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Homecoming
5 Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning upon her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.(A)
6 Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.(B)
7 Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
all the wealth of one’s house,
it[a] would be utterly scorned.
Footnotes
- 8.7 Or he
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