Song of Songs 8:1
O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
Note I should not…: Heb. they should not despise me
Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- that thou
- Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6; Haggai 2:7; Zechariah 9:9; Malachi 3:1; Matthew 13:16, 17; Luke 2:26–32, 38; Luke 10:23, 24; 1 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 2:11, 12
- sucked
- Isaiah 66:11, 12; Galatians 4:26
- find thee
- John 1:14; John 3:13; John 8:42; John 13:3; John 16:28; Hebrews 2:9–14; Hebrews 9:26–28
- I would
- Song of Songs 1:2; Psalm 2:12; Psalm 45:10, 11; Luke 7:45–48; Luke 9:26; Luke 12:8; John 7:46–52; John 9:25–38; Galatians 6:14; Philippians 3:3, 7, 8
- yea
- Psalm 51:17; Psalm 102:16, 17; Mark 12:42–44; Mark 14:6–9
- I should not be despised
- Heb. they should not despise me.
- Isaiah 60:14; Luke 10:16; Luke 18:9; 1 Corinthians 1:28