TOJB2011 ▾Shir HashirimShir Hashirim 81O that thou were like my brother, that nursed the breasts of immi (my mother) ! Then, if I should find thee outside, I would kiss thee; yea, and no one would look down on me.2I would lead thee, and bring thee into bais immi. Thou wouldest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced yayin and the nectar of my pomegranate.3His left hand should be under my rosh, and his right hand embrace me.4I charge you, O banot Yerushalayim, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah (the Love) till it pleases.5Who is this that cometh up from the midbar, leaning upon her beloved? Under the tapuach (apple tree) I awakened thee; it was there thy em conceived thee; there she who brought thee forth conceived thee.6Set me as a chotam (seal) upon thine lev, as a chotam upon thine zero'a (arm) ; for ahavah is strong as mavet (death) ; kinah (jealousy) as unyielding as Sheol; the flames thereof are flames of eish, the flame of Hashem .7Mayim rabbim (many waters) cannot quench HaAhavah, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the wealth of his bais for ahavah, it would be utterly scorned.8We have an achot ketannah (little sister) , and she hath as yet no breasts. What shall we do for achoteinu (our sister) in the day when she shall be spoken for?9If she be a chomah (wall) , we will build upon her a pinnacle of kesef; and if she be a delet (door) , we will enclose her with panels of cedar.10I am a chomah (wall) , and my breasts, like migdalot; then was I in his eyes like one that findeth shalom.11Sh'lomo had a kerem (vineyard) at Ba'al-Hamon; he gave over the kerem (vineyard) unto caretakers; each had to pay a thousand pieces of kesef for the p'ri (fruit) thereof.12My kerem (vineyard) , which is mine, is at my own disposal; thou, O Sh'lomo, the thousand are for thee, and two hundred for those that tend the p'ri thereof!13Thou that dwellest in the ganim (gardens) , the chaverim are listening for thy voice; cause me to hear it.14Make haste, dodi (my beloved) , and be thou like to a gazelle or a young deer upon the mountains where spices grow.Shir Hashirim 7Ruth 1