Oh that thou wert as my brother,
That sucked the breasts of my mother!
When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;
Yea, and none would despise me.
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house,
{Or, That thou mightest}Who would instruct me;
I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine,
Of the {Or, sweet wine}juice of my pomegranate.
His left hand should be under my head,
And his right hand should embrace me.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
{Hebrew: Why should ye stir up? or why &c.}That ye stir not up, nor awake my love,
Until {Or, it Or, she}he please.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,
Leaning upon her beloved?
Under the apple-tree I awakened thee:
There thy mother was in travail with thee,
There was she in travail {Or, and}that brought thee forth.
Set me as a seal upon thy heart,
As a seal upon thine arm:
For love is strong as death;
Jealousy is {Hebrew: hard.}cruel as Sheol;
The flashes thereof are flashes of fire,
{Or, A most vehement flame}A very flame of {Hebrew: Jah.}Jehovah.
Many waters cannot quench love,
Neither can floods drown it:
If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,
{Or, It}He would utterly be contemned.
We have a little sister,
And she hath no breasts:
What shall we do for our sister
In the day when she shall be spoken for?
If she be a wall,
We will build upon her {Or, battlements}a turret of silver:
And if she be a door,
We will inclose her with boards of cedar.
I {Or, was}am a wall, and my breasts like the towers thereof
Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
He let out the vineyard unto keepers;
Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:
Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand,
And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
The companions hearken {Or, to}for thy voice:
Cause me to hear it.
{Hebrew: Flee.}Make haste, my beloved,
And be thou like to a {Or, gazelle}roe or to a young hart
Upon the mountains of spices.
Querverweise zu Hohelied 8,13 Hld 8,13
The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs,And the vines are in blossom;They give forth their fragrance.Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,Where thou feedest thy flock,Where thou makest it to rest at noon:For why should I be as one that is veiledBeside the flocks of thy companions?
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock,In the covert of the steep place,Let me see thy countenance,Let me hear thy voice;For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south;Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.Let my beloved come into his garden,And eat his precious fruits.
Behold, it is the litter of Solomon;Threescore mighty men are about it,Of the mighty men of Israel.
They all handle the sword, and are expert in war:Every man hath his sword upon his thigh,Because of fear in the night.
King Solomon made himself a {Or, ear of state}palanquinOf the wood of Lebanon.
He made the pillars thereof of silver,The bottom thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple,The midst thereof being {Or, inlaid}paved with love,From the daughters of Jerusalem.
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon,With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned himIn the day of his espousals,And in the day of the gladness of his heart.
And call upon me in the day of trouble:I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
My beloved is gone down to his garden,To the beds of {Or, balsam}spices,To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
What is thy beloved more than another beloved,O thou fairest among women?What is thy beloved more than another beloved,That thou dost so adjure us?
My beloved is white and ruddy, {Hebrew: Marked out by a banner.}The chiefest among ten thousand.
His head is as the most fine gold;His locks are {Or, curling}bushy, and black as a raven.
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,Washed with milk, and {Or, sitting by full streams}fitly set.
His cheeks are as a bed of {Or, balsam}spices,As {Or, towers of perfumes}banks of sweet herbs:His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
His hands are as {Or, cylinders}rings of gold set with {Or, topaz}beryl:His body is as {Or, bright ivory}ivory work {Or, encrusted}overlaid with sapphires.
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
His {Or, speech Hebrew: palate.}mouth is most sweet;Yea, he is altogether lovely.This is my beloved, and this is my friend,O daughters of Jerusalem.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
I went down into the garden of nuts,To see the green plants of the valley,To see whether the vine budded,And the pomegranates were in flower.
And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
If ye shall ask {Many ancient authorities add me.}anything in my name, that will I do.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field;Let us lodge in the villages.
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Let us get up early to the vineyards;Let us see whether the vine hath budded,And {Or, the tender grape appeareth}its blossom is open,And the pomegranates are in flower:There will I give thee my love.
She shall be led unto the king {Or, upon}in broidered work:The virgins her companions that follow herShall be brought unto thee.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you {Greek: all the days.}always, even unto {Or, the consummation of the age.}the end of the world.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.
Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, Lord, what is come to pass that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.