​⁵Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning upon her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.
⁶Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
⁷Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
all the wealth of one’s house,
it would be utterly scorned.
⁸We have a little sister,
and she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister,
on the day when she is spoken for?
⁹If she is a wall,
we will build upon her a battlement of silver;
but if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
¹⁰I was a wall,
and my breasts were like towers;
then I was in his eyes
as one who brings peace.
¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
he entrusted the vineyard to keepers;
each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
¹²My vineyard, my very own, is for myself;
you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
and the keepers of the fruit two hundred!
¹³O you who dwell in the gardens,
my companions are listening for your voice;
let me hear it.
¹⁴Make haste, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
upon the mountains of spices!