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\id SNG - Berean Study Bible
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\h Song
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\toc1 Song
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\mt1 Song
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\c 1
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\s1 The Bride Confesses Her Love
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\r (Ephesians 5:22–33; 1 Peter 3:1–7)
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\b
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\m
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\v 1 This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.\f + \fr 1:1 \ft Most translators add subheadings for speaker identifications such as The Bride, The Groom, and The Friends based on the gender and number of the Hebrew words.\f*
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
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\q2 For your love is more delightful than wine.
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\q1
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\v 3 The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing;
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\q2 your name is like perfume poured out.
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\q2 No wonder the maidens adore you.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 4 Take me away with you—let us hurry!
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\q2 May the king bring me to his chambers.
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1 We will rejoice and delight in you;
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\q2 we will praise your love more than wine.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1 It is only right that they adore you.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 5 I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem,
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\q2 like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
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\q1
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\v 6 Do not stare because I am dark,
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\q2 for the sun has gazed upon me.
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\q1 My mother’s sons were angry with me;
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\q2 they made me a keeper of the vineyards,
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\q2 but my own vineyard I have neglected.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 7 Tell me, O one I love,
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\q2 where do you pasture your sheep?
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\q2 Where do you rest them at midday?
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\q1 Why should I be like a veiled woman
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\q2 beside the flocks of your companions?
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1
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\v 8 If you do not know, O fairest of women,
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\q2 follow the tracks of the flock,
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\q1 and graze your young goats
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\q2 near the tents of the shepherds.
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 9 I compare you, my darling,
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\q2 to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
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\q1
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\v 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments,
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\q2 your neck with strings of jewels.
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1
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\v 11 We will make you ornaments of gold,
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\q2 studded with beads of silver.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 12 While the king was at his table,
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\q2 my perfume spread its fragrance.
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\q1
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\v 13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh
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\q2 resting between my breasts.
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\q1
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\v 14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
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\q2 in the vineyards of En-gedi.
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 15 How beautiful you are, my darling!
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\q2 Oh, how very beautiful!
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\q2 Your eyes are like doves.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 16 How handsome you are, my beloved!
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\q2 Oh, how delightful!
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\q2 The soft grass is our bed.
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 17 The beams of our house are cedars;
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\q2 our rafters are fragrant firs.
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\c 2
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\s1 The Bride’s Admiration
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 1 I am a rose of Sharon,\f + \fr 2:1 \ft Sharon Plain is a region in the coastal plain of Israel\f*
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\q2 a lily of the valley.
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 2 Like a lily among the thorns
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\q2 is my darling among the maidens.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest
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\q2 is my beloved among the young men.
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\q1 I delight to sit in his shade,
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\q2 and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
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\q1
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\v 4 He has brought me to the house of wine,\f + \fr 2:4 \ft That is, the banquet hall\f*
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\q2 and his banner over me is love.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 5 Sustain me with raisins;
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\q2 refresh me with apples,
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\q2 for I am faint with love.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 6 His left hand is under my head,
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\q2 and his right arm embraces me.
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\q1
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\v 7 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you
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\q2 by the gazelles and does of the field:
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\q1 Do not arouse or awaken love
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\q2 until the time is right.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 8 Listen! My beloved approaches.
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\q2 Look! Here he comes,
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\q1 leaping across the mountains,
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\q2 bounding over the hills.
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\q1
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\v 9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
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\q2 Look, he stands behind our wall,
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\q1 gazing through the windows,
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\q2 peering through the lattice.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 10 My beloved calls to me,
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\q2 “Arise, my darling.
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\q2 Come away with me, my beautiful one.
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\q1
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\v 11 For now the winter is past;
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\q2 the rain is over and gone.
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\q1
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\v 12 The flowers have appeared in the countryside;
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\q2 the season of singing \f + \fr 2:12 \ft Or pruning\f* has come,
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\q1 and the cooing of turtledoves
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\q2 is heard in our land.
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\q1
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\v 13 The fig tree ripens its figs;
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\q2 the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.
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\q1 Arise, come away, my darling;
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\q2 come away with me, my beautiful one.”
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 14 O my dove in the clefts of the rock,
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\q2 in the crevices of the cliff,
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\q1 let me see your face,
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\q2 let me hear your voice;
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\q1 for your voice is sweet,
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\q2 and your countenance is lovely.
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1
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\v 15 Catch for us the foxes—
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\q2 the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—
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\q2 for our vineyards are in bloom.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 16 My beloved is mine and I am his;
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\q2 he pastures his flock among the lilies.
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\q1
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\v 17 Before the day breaks and shadows flee,
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\q2 turn, my beloved,
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\q1 and be like a gazelle
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\q2 or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.\f + \fr 2:17 \ft Or the rugged mountains\f*
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\c 3
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\s1 The Bride’s Dream
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\b
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\q1
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\v 1 On my bed at night
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\q2 I sought the one I love;
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\q1 I sought him,
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\q2 but did not find him.
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\q1
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\v 2 I will arise now and go about the city,
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\q2 through the streets and squares.
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\q1 I will seek the one I love.
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\q2 So I sought him but did not find him.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 3 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city:
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\q2 “Have you seen the one I love?”
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\q1
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\v 4 I had just passed them when I found the one I love.
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\q2 I held him and would not let go
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\q1 until I had brought him to my mother’s house,
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\q2 to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 5 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you
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\q2 by the gazelles and does of the field:
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\q1 Do not arouse or awaken love
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\q2 until the time is right.
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\s1 Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day
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\b
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\q1
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\v 6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness
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\q2 like a column of smoke,
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\q1 scented with myrrh and frankincense
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\q2 from all the spices of the merchant?
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\q1
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\v 7 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage,\f + \fr 3:7 \ft That is, the couch on which servants carry a king\f*
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\q2 escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.
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\q1
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\v 8 All are skilled with the sword,
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\q2 experienced in warfare.
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\q1 Each has his sword at his side
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\q2 prepared for the terror of the night.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 9 King Solomon has made his carriage
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\q2 out of the timber of Lebanon.
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\q1
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\v 10 He has made its posts of silver,
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\q2 its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric.
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\q1 Its interior is inlaid with love
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\q2 by the daughters of Jerusalem.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 11 Come out, O daughters of Zion,
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\q2 and gaze at King Solomon,
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\q1 wearing the crown his mother bestowed
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\q2 on the day of his wedding—
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\q2 the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
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\c 4
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\s1 Solomon Admires His Bride
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 1 How beautiful you are, my darling—
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\q2 how very beautiful!
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\q1 Your eyes are like doves
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\q2 behind your veil.
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\q1 Your hair is like a flock of goats
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\q2 streaming down Mount Gilead.
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\q1
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\v 2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep
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\q2 coming up from the washing;
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\q1 each has its twin,
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\q2 and not one of them is lost.
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\q1
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\v 3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon,
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\q2 and your mouth is lovely.
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\q1 Your brow behind your veil
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\q2 is like a slice of pomegranate.
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\q1
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\v 4 Your neck is like the tower of David,
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\q2 built with rows of stones;
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\q1 on it hang a thousand shields,
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\q2 all of them shields of warriors.
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\q1
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\v 5 Your breasts are like two fawns,
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\q2 twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 6 Before the day breaks and the shadows flee,
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\q2 I will make my way
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\q1 to the mountain of myrrh
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\q2 and to the hill of frankincense.
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\q1
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\v 7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling;
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\q2 in you there is no flaw.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
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\q2 come with me from Lebanon!
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\q1 Descend \f + \fr 4:8 \ft Or Look down\f* from the peak of Amana,
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\q2 from the summits of Senir and Hermon,
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\q1 from the dens of the lions,
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\q2 from the mountains of the leopards.
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\q1
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\v 9 You have captured my heart,
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\q2 my sister, my bride;
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\q1 you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes,
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\q2 with one jewel of your neck.
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\q1
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\v 10 How delightful is your love,
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\q2 my sister, my bride!
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\q1 Your love is much better than wine,
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\q2 and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
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\q1
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\v 11 Your lips, my bride,
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\q2 drip sweetness like the honeycomb;
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\q1 honey and milk are under your tongue,
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\q2 and the fragrance of your garments
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\q2 is like the aroma of Lebanon.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 12 My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up,
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\q2 a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
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\q1
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\v 13 Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates
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\q2 with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,
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\q1
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\v 14 with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon,
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\q2 with every kind of frankincense tree,
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\q1 with myrrh and aloes,
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\q2 with all the finest spices.
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\q1
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\v 15 You are a garden spring,
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\q2 a well of fresh water \f + \fr 4:15 \ft Or flowing water or living water\f*
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\q2 flowing down from Lebanon.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 16 Awake, O north wind,
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\q2 and come, O south wind.
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\q1 Breathe on my garden
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\q2 and spread the fragrance of its spices.
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\q1 Let my beloved come into his garden
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\q2 and taste its choicest fruits.
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\c 5
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\s1 The Bride and Her Beloved
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 1 I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride;
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\q2 I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.
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\q1 I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
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\q2 I have drunk my wine with my milk.
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1 Eat, O friends, and drink;
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\q2 drink freely, O beloved.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 2 I sleep, but my heart is awake.
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\q2 A sound! My beloved is knocking:
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\q1 “Open to me, my sister, my darling,
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\q2 my dove, my flawless one.
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\q1 My head is drenched with dew,
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\q2 my hair with the dampness of the night.”
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\b
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\q1
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\v 3 I have taken off my robe—
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\q2 must I put it back on?
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\q1 I have washed my feet—
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\q2 must I soil them again?
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\q1
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\v 4 My beloved put his hand to the latch;
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\q2 my heart pounded for him.
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\q1
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\v 5 I rose up to open for my beloved.
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\q2 My hands dripped with myrrh,
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\q1 my fingers with flowing myrrh
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\q2 on the handles of the bolt.
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\q1
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\v 6 I opened for my beloved,
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\q2 but he had turned and gone.
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\q1 My heart sank at his departure.
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\q2 I sought him, but did not find him.
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\q2 I called, but he did not answer.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 7 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city.
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\q2 They beat me and bruised me;
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\q1 they took away my cloak,
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\q2 those guardians of the walls.
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\q1
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\v 8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you,
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\q2 if you find my beloved,
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\q2 tell him I am sick with love.
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1
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\v 9 How is your beloved better than others,
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\q2 O most beautiful among women?
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\q1 How is your beloved better than another,
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\q2 that you charge us so?
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 10 My beloved is dazzling and ruddy,
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\q2 outstanding among ten thousand.
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\q1
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\v 11 His head is purest gold;
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\q2 his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
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\q1
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\v 12 His eyes are like doves
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\q2 beside the streams of water,
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\q1 bathed in milk
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\q2 and mounted like jewels.
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\q1
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\v 13 His cheeks are like beds of spice,
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\q2 towers of perfume.
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\q1 His lips are like lilies,
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\q2 dripping with flowing myrrh.
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\q1
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\v 14 His arms are rods of gold
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\q2 set with beryl.
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\q1 His body is an ivory panel
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\q2 bedecked with sapphires.
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\q1
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\v 15 His legs are pillars of marble
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\q2 set on bases of pure gold.
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\q1 His appearance is like Lebanon,
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\q2 as majestic as the cedars.
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\q1
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\v 16 His mouth \f + \fr 5:16 \ft Hebrew palate\f* is most sweet;
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\q2 he is altogether lovely.
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\q1 This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
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\q2 O daughters of Jerusalem.
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\c 6
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\s1 Together in the Garden
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1
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\v 1 Where has your beloved gone,
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\q2 O most beautiful among women?
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\q1 Which way has he turned?
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\q2 We will seek him with you.
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\s2 The Bride
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\b
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\q1
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\v 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden,
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\q2 to the beds of spices,
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\q1 to pasture his flock in the gardens
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\q2 and to gather lilies.
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\q1
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\v 3 I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me;
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\q2 he pastures his flock among the lilies.
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 4 You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah,
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\q2 as lovely as Jerusalem,
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\q2 as majestic as troops with banners.
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\q1
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\v 5 Turn your eyes away from me,
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\q2 for they have overcome me.
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\q1 Your hair is like a flock of goats
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\q2 streaming down from Gilead.
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\q1
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\v 6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
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\q2 coming up from the washing;
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\q1 each has its twin,
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\q2 and not one of them is lost.
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\q1
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\v 7 Your brow behind your veil
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\q2 is like a slice of pomegranate.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,
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\q2 and maidens without number,
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\q1
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\v 9 but my dove, my perfect one, is unique,
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\q2 the favorite of the mother who bore her.
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\q1 The maidens see her and call her blessed;
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\q2 the queens and concubines sing her praises.
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1
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\v 10 Who is this who shines like the dawn,
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\q2 as fair as the moon,
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\q1 as bright as the sun,
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\q2 as majestic as the stars in procession?
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 11 I went down to the walnut grove
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\q2 to see the blossoms of the valley,
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\q1 to see if the vines were budding
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\q2 or the pomegranates were in bloom.
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\q1
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\v 12 Before I realized it, my desire had set me
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\q2 among the royal chariots of my people.\f + \fr 6:12 \ft Or among the chariots of Amminadab\f*
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\s2 The Friends
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\b
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\q1
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\v 13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite!
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\q2 Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you.
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\s2 The Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1 Why do you look at the Shulammite,
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\q2 as on the dance of Mahanaim \f + \fr 6:13 \ft Or the dance of the two camps\f*?
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\c 7
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\s1 Admiration by the Bridegroom
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\b
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\q1
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\v 1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet,
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\q2 O daughter of the prince!
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\q1 The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
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\q2 the handiwork of a master.
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\q1
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\v 2 Your navel is a rounded goblet;
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\q2 it never lacks blended wine.
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\q1 Your waist is a mound of wheat
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\q2 encircled by the lilies.
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\q1
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\v 3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
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\q2 twins of a gazelle.
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\q1
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\v 4 Your neck is like a tower
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\q2 made of ivory;
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\q1 your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon
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\q2 by the gate of Bath-rabbim;
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\q1 your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,
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\q2 facing toward Damascus.
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\q1
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\v 5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
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||
\q2 the hair of your head like purple threads;
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\q2 the king is captured in your tresses.
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||
\b
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\q1
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\v 6 How fair and pleasant you are,
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\q2 O love, with your delights!
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\q1
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\v 7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
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||
\q2 your breasts are clusters of fruit.
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||
\q1
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\v 8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
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\q2 I will take hold of its fruit.”
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||
\q1 May your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
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||
\q2 the fragrance of your breath like apples,
|
||
\q2
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\v 9 and your mouth \f + \fr 7:9 \ft Hebrew palate \f* like the finest wine.
|
||
\s2 The Bride
|
||
\b
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||
\q1 May it flow smoothly to my beloved,
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||
\q2 gliding gently over lips and teeth.\f + \fr 7:9 \ft LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; Hebrew gliding gently over lips as we sleep\f*
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
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||
\v 10 I belong to my beloved,
|
||
\q2 and his desire is for me.
|
||
\q1
|
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\v 11 Come, my beloved,
|
||
\q2 let us go to the countryside;
|
||
\q2 let us spend the night among the wildflowers.\f + \fr 7:11 \ft Or among the henna blossoms or in the villages\f*
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 12 Let us go early to the vineyards
|
||
\q2 to see if the vine has budded,
|
||
\q1 if the blossom has opened,
|
||
\q2 if the pomegranates are in bloom—
|
||
\q2 there I will give you my love.
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 13 The mandrakes send forth a fragrance,
|
||
\q2 and at our door is every delicacy,
|
||
\q1 new as well as old,
|
||
\q2 that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.
|
||
\c 8
|
||
\s1 Longing for Her Beloved
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 1 O that you were to me like a brother
|
||
\q2 who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
|
||
\q1 If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you,
|
||
\q2 and no one would despise me.
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 2 I would lead you and bring you
|
||
\q2 to the house of my mother who taught me.
|
||
\q1 I would give you spiced wine to drink,
|
||
\q2 the nectar of my pomegranates.
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 3 His left hand is under my head,
|
||
\q2 and his right arm embraces me.
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 4 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you:
|
||
\q2 Do not arouse or awaken love
|
||
\q2 until the time is right.
|
||
\s2 The Friends
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness,
|
||
\q2 leaning on her beloved?
|
||
\s2 The Bride
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1 I roused you under the apple tree;
|
||
\q2 there your mother conceived you;
|
||
\q2 there she travailed and brought you forth.
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 6 Set me as a seal over your heart,
|
||
\q2 as a seal upon your arm.
|
||
\q1 For love is as strong as death,
|
||
\q2 its jealousy \f + \fr 8:6 \ft Or passion\f* as unrelenting as Sheol.
|
||
\q1 Its sparks are fiery flames,
|
||
\q2 the fiercest blaze of all.
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 7 Mighty waters cannot quench love;
|
||
\q2 rivers cannot sweep it away.
|
||
\q1 If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love,
|
||
\q2 his offer would be utterly scorned.
|
||
\s2 The Friends
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 8 We have a little sister,
|
||
\q2 and her breasts are not yet grown.
|
||
\q1 What shall we do for our sister
|
||
\q2 on the day she is spoken for?
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 9 If she is a wall,
|
||
\q2 we will build a tower of silver upon her.
|
||
\q1 If she is a door,
|
||
\q2 we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
|
||
\s2 The Bride
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 10 I am a wall,
|
||
\q2 and my breasts are like towers.
|
||
\q1 So I have become in his eyes
|
||
\q2 like one who brings peace.
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 11 Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon.
|
||
\q2 He leased it to the tenants.
|
||
\q1 For its fruit, each was to bring
|
||
\q2 a thousand shekels of silver.\f + \fr 8:11 \ft Hebrew a thousand of silver; that is, approximately 25.1 pounds or 11.4 kilograms of silver\f*
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 12 But my own vineyard is mine to give;
|
||
\q2 the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon,
|
||
\q2 and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
|
||
\s2 The Bridegroom
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 13 You who dwell in the gardens,
|
||
\q2 my companions are listening for your voice.
|
||
\q2 Let me hear it!
|
||
\s2 The Bride
|
||
\b
|
||
\q1
|
||
\v 14 Come away, my beloved,
|
||
\q2 and be like a gazelle
|
||
\q1 or a young stag
|
||
\q2 on the mountains of spices.
|