9If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.


In Context

6 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

7 Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.

8 We have a young sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister for the day she is spoken for?

9 If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.

11 Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver.

Song of Solomon 8:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9If she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she [be] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:9If she be a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:9If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:9If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver; And if she be a door, We will enclose her with boards of cedar.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:9If she be a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9If she is a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she is a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:9If she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar.