Ch 8 / 8~2 min
Shir HaShirim

Chapter 8

Love as Strong as Death Cannot Be Quenched

Love as strong as death, its flames a blazing fire — no flood can quench it — describes Yeshua's love that proved stronger than death itself at the resurrection.

  1. Love as Strong as Death

    Love as strong as death, jealousy as fierce as the grave. Nothing — not floods nor wealth — can quench this love.

  2. 1Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
  3. 2I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
  4. 3His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.
  5. 4I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
  6. Set Me as a Seal Upon Your Heart

    Set me as a seal upon your heart. This covenant love is permanent, unbreakable, and burning.

  7. 5Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Beloved Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labour and bore you.
  8. 6Set 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 YHWH.
  9. 7Many 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.
  10. 8We 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?
  11. 9If 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.
  12. 10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
  13. The Keeper of the Vineyard

    The vineyard is entrusted to keepers. You are a steward of the love and calling Elohim has given you.

  14. 11Solomon 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.
  15. 12My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
  16. 13You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
  17. 14Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
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