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Song of Songs 8:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Song of Songs 8:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 Flood waters cannot quench love,
nor can torrents drown it.
If one were to offer all his wealth for love,
he would be regarded with contempt.
One Who Brings Peace[a]
Companions:
8 “Our sister is little,
and her breasts are not yet formed.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build a silver battlement upon it;
if she is a door,
we will board her up with planks of cedar.”
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 8:8 Suddenly a life that is still young finds itself mature with passion; already love has decided the future of the bride even though her brothers are still thinking of the men to whom they could contract her in marriage. They did not notice their little sister becoming a woman. Elders always have trouble admitting that their siblings have already entered into life, that love has already brought new freedom to them.
Israel, apparently always adolescent and indecisive, the most insignificant of nations in any case, is fulfilled more than one could believe by faith in God. And the believer, so fragile in his own eyes, finds an inconceivable freedom in the Lord’s presence.
