6 "Put me like a seal on your heart,

Like a seal on your arm;

For love is as strong as death,

Jealousy is as severe and cruel as Sheol (the place of the dead).

Its flashes are flashes of fire,

[A most vehement flame] the very flame of the *8:6 Heb YHWH (Yahweh).Lord! [Deut 4:24; Is 49:16; 1 Cor 10:22]

7 "Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor can rivers drown it.

If a man would offer all the riches of his house for love,

It would be utterly scorned and despised."

(The Chorus)