Song of Songs 7:10-8:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁰ I am my beloved’s,
    and his desire is for me.^(A)
11 Come, my beloved,
    let us go forth into the fields
    and lodge in the villages;
¹² let us go out early to the vineyards;
    let us see whether the vines have budded,
whether the grape blossoms have opened
    and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.^(B)
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
    and over our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
    which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.^(C)

8 O that you were like a brother to me,
    who nursed at my mother’s breast!
If I met you outside, I would kiss you,
    and no one would despise me.
² I would lead you and bring you
    into my mother’s house
    and into the chamber of the one who bore me.^[a]
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
    from the juice of my pomegranates.^(D)
3 O that his left hand were under my head
    and that his right hand embraced me!^(E)
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
    do not stir up or awaken love
    until it is ready!^(F)