Song of Songs 8:5-7
EasyEnglish Bible
The young women of Jerusalem:
5 Who is this who is coming from the desert?
Her head is on her lover's shoulder.
The young woman:
Under the apple tree,
I caused your love to wake.
That is the place where your mother became pregnant.
In that place too, your mother gave birth to you in pain.
6 Keep me near to you, like a seal over your heart.[a]
Keep me like a seal on your arm.
Keep me there always,
because love is as powerful as death.
It keeps hold of people as strongly as the grave does.
Love burns like a hot fire.
It burns with bright flames.
7 Even a flood of water cannot stop the flames.
Rivers of water cannot carry it away.
A man might try to give all his riches
to buy a woman's love.
But she would refuse to accept what he offers to her.
Footnotes
- 8:6 A man might put a seal on something to show that it belongs to him. He might hang a valuable thing around his neck. Or he might wear it on his arm or on his finger.
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