Canticle of Canticles 8

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Bride to Groom: "Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?"	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 will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates."	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 is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me."	3 His left arm is under my head and his right embraces me.
4 Groom to Chorus: "I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills."	4 LOVER: I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, do not rouse, do not wake my beloved, before shepleases!
5 Chorus to Groom: "Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?"	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 Groom to Bride: "Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated."	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 "Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames."	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 "A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing."	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 Chorus: "Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon?"	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 "If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar."	10 I am a wal , and my breasts represent its towers. And under their eyes I have found true peace.
11 Bride to Chorus: "I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, since, in his presence, I have become like one who has discovered peace."	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 "The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver."	12 But I tend my own vineyard myself. You, Solomon, may have your thousand shekels, and those whooversee its produce their two hundred.
13 Groom: "My vineyard is before me. The thousand is for your peacefulness, and two hundred is for those who care for its fruit."	13 You who dwel in the gardens, my companions listen for your voice; let me hear it.
14 "Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants."	14 Haste away, my love, be like a gazel e, a young stag, on the spice-laden mountains.