Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! {cf15i when} I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.
I would lead thee, {cf15i and} bring thee into my mother-s house, who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened thee: there thy mother was in travail with thee, there was she in travail that brought thee forth.
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be contemned.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand {cf15i pieces} of silver.