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; 1
there your mother conceived you,
there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth. 2
The Beloved to Her Lover:
8:6 Set me like a cylinder seal 3 over your heart, 4
like a signet 5 on your arm. 6
For love is as strong as death, 7
passion 8 is as unrelenting 9 as Sheol.
Its flames burst forth, 10
it is a blazing flame. 11
8:7 Surging waters cannot quench love;
floodwaters 12 cannot overflow it.
If someone were to offer all his possessions 13 to buy love, 14
the offer 15 would be utterly despised. 16