Wimbo 8:7
Song of Songs 8:7 · Biblica® Open Kiswahili Contemporary Version 2015
Maji mengi hayawezi kuuzimisha upendo, mito haiwezi kuugharikisha. Kama mtu angelitoa mali yote ya nyumbani mwake kwa ajili ya upendo, angelidharauliwa kabisa.
Song of Songs 8:7 in English
Song of Songs 8:7 · Berean Standard Bible
Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
Context
5Ni nani huyu anayekuja kutoka nyikani
akimwegemea mpenzi wake? 6(5) Nilikuamsha chini ya mtofaa,
huko mama yako alipotunga mimba yako,
huko yeye alipata utungu akakuzaa.
(6) Nitie kama muhuri moyoni mwako,
kama muhuri kwenye mkono wako;
kwa maana upendo una nguvu kama mauti,
wivu wake ni mkatili kama kuzimu.
Unachoma kama mwali wa moto,
kama mwali mkubwa wa moto wa Bwana hasa. 7Maji mengi hayawezi kuuzimisha upendo,
mito haiwezi kuugharikisha.
Kama mtu angelitoa mali yote ya nyumbani mwake
kwa ajili ya upendo,
angelidharauliwa kabisa. 8Tunaye dada mdogo,
matiti yake hayajakua bado.
Tutafanya nini kwa ajili ya dada yetu
wakati atakapokuja kuposwa? 9Kama yeye ni ukuta,
tutajenga minara ya fedha juu yake.
Na kama yeye ni mlango,
tutamzungushia mbao za mierezi.
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