4. I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem:“Do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!”
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.