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Chapter 8

Would that you were a brother to me,
    nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I met you out of doors, I would kiss you
    and none would despise me.
(A)I would lead you, bring you to my mother’s house,
    where you would teach me,
Where I would give you to drink
    spiced wine, my pomegranate[a] juice.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:2 Wine…pomegranate: sexual connotations are implied, since the root “drink” (shaqah) is a wordplay on “kiss” (nashaq) in v. 1; cf. 1:2.