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]
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.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:6 Or the blaze of the Lord
  2. 8:7 Lit all the wealth of his house

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