微读圣经

If only I could treat you like my brother, Lit Would that you were like a brother to me

one who nursed at my mother’s breasts,

I would find you in public and kiss you,

and no one would scorn me.

2I would lead you, I would take you,

to the house of my mother Sg 3:4 who taught me. LXX adds and into the chamber of the one who bore me

I would give you spiced wine to drink

from my pomegranate juice.

3His left hand is under my head,

and his right arm embraces me. Sg 2:6

4Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you:

do not stir up or awaken love

until the appropriate time. Sg 2:7; 3:5

Y

5Who is this Sg 3:6; 6:10 coming up from the wilderness,

leaning on the one she loves?

W

I awakened you under the apricot tree. Sg 2:3

There your mother conceived you;

there she conceived and gave you birth.

6Set me as a seal on your heart,

as a seal on your arm. Sg 2:16; 6:3; 7:10

For love is as strong as death; Rm 8:38-39; 1Co 13:8

ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.

Love’s flames are fiery flames Dt 32:21-22; Pr 6:34; 27:4 —

the fiercest of all. Or the blaze of the Lord

7Mighty waters cannot extinguish love;

rivers cannot sweep it away.

If a man were to give all his wealth Lit all the wealth of his house for love, Pr 6:35

it would be utterly scorned.

B

8Our sister is young;

she has no breasts. Ezk 16:7

What will we do for our sister

on the day she is spoken for?

9If she is a wall,

we will build a silver parapet on it.

If she is a door,

we will enclose it with cedar planks. Vv. 8-9 may record what the girl’s brothers used to say. 1Kg 6:15

W

10I am Or was a wall

and my breasts like towers.

So in his eyes I have become

like one who finds peace. In Hb, the word for peace sounds similar to Solomon and Shulammite.

11Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon. Ec 2:4

He leased the vineyard to tenants. Mt 21:33

Each was to bring for his fruit

1,000 pieces of silver. Is 7:23

12I have my own vineyard. Lit My vineyard, which is mine, is before me ; Sg 1:6 Sg 1:6

The 1,000 are for you, Solomon,

but 200 for those who guard its fruits.

M

13You In Hb, the word for You is feminine. who dwell in the gardens —

companions Sg 1:7 are listening for your voice —

let me hear you! Sg 2:14

W

14Hurry to me, my love,

and be like a gazelle

or a young stag

on the mountains of spices. Sg 2:17