5 Who is this coming up from the desert,leaning on her beloved?Under the apple tree I aroused you;there your mother conceived you,there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.
6 Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart,like a signet on your arm.For love is as strong as death,passion is as unrelenting as Sheol.Its flames burst forth,it is a blazing flame.
7 Surging waters cannot quench love;floodwaters cannot overflow it.If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love,the offer would be utterly despised.
8 We have a little sister,and as yet she has no breasts.What shall we do for our sisteron the day when she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,we will build on her a battlement of silver;but if she is a door,we will barricade her with boards of cedar.
10 I was a wall,and my breasts were like fortress towers.Then I found favor in his eyes.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon;he leased out the vineyard to those who maintained it.Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.