3. His left arm is under my headand his right arm embraces me.
4. Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:do not arouse or awaken loveuntil it so desires.
5. Who is this coming up from the wildernessleaning on her beloved?Under the apple tree I roused you;there your mother conceived you,there she who was in labour gave you birth.
6. Place me like a seal over your heart,like a seal on your arm;for love is as strong as death,its jealousy unyielding as the grave.It burns like blazing fire,like a mighty flame.
7. Many waters cannot quench love;rivers cannot sweep it away.If one were to giveall the wealth of one’s house for love,it would be utterly scorned.
8. We have a little sister,and her breasts are not yet grown.What shall we do for our sisteron the day she is spoken for?
9. If she is a wall,we will build towers of silver on her.If she is a door,we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
10. I am a wall,and my breasts are like towers.Thus I have become in his eyeslike one bringing contentment.
11. Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon;he let out his vineyard to tenants.Each was to bring for its fruita thousand shekels of silver.
12. But my own vineyard is mine to give;the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.