Chapter 8
O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
that thou
Isaiah 7.14 9.6 Haggai 2.7 Zechariah 9.9 Malachi 3.1 Matthew 13.16,17 Luke 2.26-32,38 10.23,24 1 Timothy 3.16 Hebrews 2.11,12
sucked
Isaiah 66.11,12 Galatians 4.26
find thee
John 1.14 3.13 8.42 13.3 16.28 Hebrews 2.9-14 9.26-28
I would
1.2 Psalms 2.12 45.10,11 Luke 7.45-48 9.26 12.8 John 7.46-52 John 9.25-38 Galatians 6.14 Philippians 3.3,7,8
yea
Psalms 51.17 102.16,17 Mark 12.42-44 14.6-9
I should not be despised
Heb. they should not despise me.
Isaiah 60.14 Luke 10.16 18.9 1 Corinthians 1.28
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
bring
who
Luke 16.29-31 John 5.39,46,47 Acts 17.11,12 2 Timothy 3.15 1 Peter 1.10-12 2 Peter 1.19 Revelation 19.10
I would cause
spiced
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
2.6 Deuteronomy 33.27 Isaiah 62.4,5 2 Corinthians 12.9
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
charge
that ye stir not up, nor awake
Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why awake, etc.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Who is this
from the
4.8 Psalms 45.10,11 107.2-8 Isaiah 40.3 43.19 Jeremiah 2.2 Revelation 12.6
leaning
2 Chronicles 32.8 *marg:; Psalms 63.8 Isaiah 26.3,4 36.6 Micah 3.11 John 13.23 Acts 27.23-25 2 Corinthians 12.9,10 Ephesians 1.12,13 1 Peter 1.21
I raised
there she
1 3.4,11 Isaiah 49.20-23 Romans 7.4 Galatians 4.19
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
as a seal
Exodus 28.9-12,21,29,30 Isaiah 49.16 Jeremiah 22.24 Haggai 2.23 Zechariah 3.9 2 Timothy 2.19
love
5.8 Psalms 42.1,2 63.1 84.2 John 21.15-19 Acts 20.24 21.13 2 Corinthians 5.14,15 Philippians 1.20-23 Revelation 12.11
jealousy
Numbers 5.14 25.11 Deuteronomy 32.21 Proverbs 6.34 2 Corinthians 11.2
cruel
Heb. hard. the coals.
Psalms 120.4 Proverbs 25.22 Romans 12.20
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
waters
Isaiah 43.2 Matthew 7.24,25 Romans 8.28-39
if a man
Proverbs 6.31,35 Romans 13.8-10
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?
a little
Ezekiel 16.46,55,56,61 23.33 John 10.16 Acts 15.14-17 Romans 15.9-12
she hath
10 4.5 7.3 Psalms 147.19,20 Acts 7.38 Romans 3.1,2 Ephesians 2.12
what
Psalms 2.8 72.17-19 Isaiah 49.6 60.1-5,10,11 Acts 10.1-48 11.1-18 16.9 Acts 22.21 26.17,18 Romans 10.12-15 Ephesians 2.13-15,19-22
in the day
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
a wall
we will
Isaiah 58.12 60.17 61.4 Zechariah 6.12-15 Matthew 16.18 Acts 15.16 1 Corinthians 3.10-12 Ephesians 2.20-22
a door
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
a wall
my
then
Genesis 6.8 Deuteronomy 7.7,8 Proverbs 3.4 Isaiah 60.10 Luke 1.30 Ephesians 1.6,8 1 Timothy 1.16
favour
Heb. peace.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
Solomon
Calmet thus translates these verses: "Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he has let it out to keepers, each of whom for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. As for me, my vineyard is before me; keep thyself, O Solomon, thy thousand pieces of silver," etc.
had a
7.12 Ecclesiastes 2.4 Isaiah 5.1-7 Matthew 21.33-43 Mark 12.1
he let
a thousand
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
vineyard
1.6 Proverbs 4.23 Acts 20.28 1 Timothy 4.15,16
thou
Psalms 72.17-19 Romans 14.7-9 1 Corinthians 6.20 2 Corinthians 5.15
those
1 Thessalonians 2.19 1 Timothy 5.17,18
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
dwellest
2.13 4.16 6.2,11 7.11,12 Matthew 18.20 28.20 John 14.21-23
the companions
1.7 3.7-11 5.9-16 Judges 11.38 14.11 Psalms 45.14
cause
2.14 Psalms 50.15 John 14.13,14 15.7 16.24
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Make haste
Heb. Flee away.