Songs 8:3
Good News Translation
Your left hand is under my head, and your right hand caresses me.

New Revised Standard Version
O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

Contemporary English Version
Put your left hand under my head and embrace me with your right arm.

New American Bible
His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Songs 2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Deuteronomy 33:27 His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.

Isaiah 62:4,5 Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhabited. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Context
Longing for Her Beloved
2I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates. 3His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.…
Cross References
Songs 8:2
I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.

Songs 8:4
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

Songs 8:2
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