The Maidens about His Beloved:
8:5 Who is this coming up from the desert,
leaning on her beloved?
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Under the apple tree I aroused you;
there your mother conceived you,
there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
8:6 Set me like a cylinder seal
like a signet
For love is as strong as death,
passion
Its flames burst forth,
it is a blazing flame.
8:7 Surging waters cannot quench love;
floodwaters
If someone were to offer all his possessions
the offer