OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

Song of Solomon 8:6

World English Bible Updated

Set me as a seal on your heart,

as a seal on your arm;

for love is strong as death.

Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.

Its flashes are flashes of fire,

a very flame of the LORD.

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Song of Solomon 8:6 in context

Song of Solomon 8:3–9

3

His left hand would be under my head.

His right hand would embrace me.

4

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,

that you not stir up, nor awaken love,

until it so desires.

5

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,

leaning on her beloved?

Under the apple tree I awakened you.

There your mother conceived you.

There she was in labor and bore you.

6
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Set me as a seal on your heart,

as a seal on your arm;

for love is strong as death.

Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol.

Its flashes are flashes of fire,

a very flame of the LORD.

7

Many waters can’t quench love,

neither can floods drown it.

If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,

he would be utterly scorned.

8

We have a little sister.

She has no breasts.

What shall we do for our sister

in the day when she is to be spoken for?

9

If she is a wall,

we will build on her a turret of silver.

If she is a door,

we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

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Source notes

Notes from World English Bible Updated

  1. Sheol is the place of the dead.
  2. Hebrew: יה Yah

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