OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Song of Solomon 8:8

World English Bible Updated

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?

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Song of Solomon 8:8 in context

Song of Solomon 8:5–11

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

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
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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.

10

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,

then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.

11

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.

He leased out the vineyard to keepers.

Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

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