Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a (A)seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
[a](B)Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flames are flames of fire,
[b]The flame of the Lord.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:6 Or Its passion is as inflexible
  2. Song of Solomon 8:6 Another reading is A vehement flame

The Bride

14 [a]Hurry, my beloved,
And be (A)like a gazelle or a young [b]stag
On the (B)mountains of balsam trees!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:14 Lit Flee
  2. Song of Solomon 8:14 Lit of the stags

(A)Hardly had I [a]left them
When I found him whom my soul loves;
I (B)held on to him and would not let him go
Until I had (C)brought him to my mother’s house,
And into the room of her who conceived me.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:4 Lit passed

Bible Gateway Recommends