5Who is this who is coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? The woman speaking to the man I awakened you under the apricot tree; there your mother conceived you; there she gave birth to you, she delivered you.
6Set me as a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death. Passionate devotion is as unrelenting as Sheol; its flames burst out; it is a blazing flame, a flame hotter than any other fire.
7Surging waters cannot quench love, nor can floods sweep it away. If a man gave all the possessions in his house for love, the offer would utterly be despised.
8We have a little sister, and her breasts have not yet grown. What can we do for our sister on the day when she will be promised in marriage?
9If she is a wall, we will build on her a tower of silver. If she is a door, we will adorn her with boards of cedar.
10I was a wall, but my breasts are now like fortress towers; so I am in his eyes as one who brings peace.
11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He gave the vineyard to those who would maintain it. Each one was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.