Canticle of Canticles 8

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.	1 Ah, why are you not my brother, nursed at my mother's breast! Then if I met you out of doors, I couldkiss you without people thinking il of me.
2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.	2 I should lead you, I should take you into my mother's house, and you would teach me! I should give youspiced wine to drink, juice of my pomegranates.
3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.	3 His left arm is under my head and his right embraces me.
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.	4 LOVER: I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, do not rouse, do not wake my beloved, before shepleases!
5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.	5 Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover? I awakened you under the apple tree, whereyour mother conceived you, where she who bore you conceived you.
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.	6 BELOVED: Set me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is strong as Death,passion as relentless as Sheol. The flash of it is a flash of fire, a flame of Yahweh himself.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.	7 Love no flood can quench, no torrents drown. Were a man to offer all his family wealth to buy love,contempt is al that he would gain.
8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?	8 Our sister is little: her breasts are not yet formed. What shal we do for our sister on the day she isspoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.	9 If she is a rampart, on the crest we shal build a battlement of silver; if she is a door, we shal board herup with planks of cedar.
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.	10 I am a wal , and my breasts represent its towers. And under their eyes I have found true peace.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.	11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon. He entrusted it to overseers, and each one was to pay himthe value of its produce, a thousand shekels of silver.
12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.	12 But I tend my own vineyard myself. You, Solomon, may have your thousand shekels, and those whooversee its produce their two hundred.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.	13 You who dwel in the gardens, my companions listen for your voice; let me hear it.
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.	14 Haste away, my love, be like a gazel e, a young stag, on the spice-laden mountains.