Song of Songs 8:6
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
Note Or passion
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Note cruel: Heb. hard
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the Lord.
Note Sheol is the place of the dead.
Note Hebrew: יה Yah
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.
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Topics Marriage
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- as a seal
- Exodus 28:9–12, 21, 29, 30; Isaiah 49:16; Jeremiah 22:24; Haggai 2:23; Zechariah 3:9; 2 Timothy 2:19
- love
- Song of Songs 5:8; Psalm 42:1, 2; Psalm 63:1; Psalm 84:2; John 21:15–19; Acts 20:24; Acts 21:13; 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15; Philippians 1:20–23; Revelation 12:11
- jealousy
- Numbers 5:14; Numbers 25:11; Deuteronomy 32:21; Proverbs 6:34; 2 Corinthians 11:2
- cruel
- Heb. hard. the coals.
- Psalm 120:4; Proverbs 25:22; Romans 12:20