Song of Solomon 8:4-6

International Children’s Bible

⁴ Women of Jerusalem, promise me.
    Promise not to wake love.
Don’t excite my feelings of love
    until I’m ready.

⁵ Who is this coming out of the desert,
    leaning on her lover?

I woke you under the apple tree.
    It was there that you were born.
    There your mother gave birth to you.
⁶ Put me like a seal on your heart,
    like a seal on your arm.
Love is as strong as death.
    Desire is as strong as the grave.
Love bursts into flames.
    It burns like a very hot fire.