Song of Solomon 8:12
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
- KJV
- My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
- WEB
- My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
- ASV
- My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
- DARBY
- My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: The thousand [silver-pieces] be to thee, Solomon; And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred.
- BLB
- My vineyard [is]—my own—[is] before me; the thousand [is] unto you, O Solomon, and two hundred to those keeping watch over its fruit.
- ÅB
- Over min vingård råder jeg selv; de tusen sekel tilhører deg, Salomo, og to hundre dem som vokter dens frukt.
- OTB
- Min egen vingård er til min disposisjon; De tusen seklene er til deg, Salomo, Og to hundre til dem som passer dens frukt.
- B1930
- Over min vingård råder jeg selv; de tusen sekel tilhører dig, Salomo, og to hundre dem som vokter dens frukt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 1:6
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
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For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
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Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:20
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Read in contextPsalms 72:17–19
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:15
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:15–16
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
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