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Young Women

Who is this(A) coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on the one she loves?

Woman

I awakened you under the apricot tree.(B)
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.(C)
For love is as strong as death;(D)
jealousy is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames(E)
an almighty flame![a]
A huge torrent cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealth[b] for love,(F)
it would be utterly scorned.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:6 Or the blaze of the Lord
  2. 8:7 Litall the wealth of his house