Song of Solomon 8:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷Many waters cannot quench love,
    neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
    all the wealth of one’s house,
    it would be utterly scorned.

⁸We have a little sister,
    and she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister,
    on the day when she is spoken for?
⁹If she is a wall,
    we will build upon her a battlement of silver;
but if she is a door,
    we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

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