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15 Catch the foxes for us!
Our vines now have flowers
    and they will soon give us fruit.
So catch the little foxes before they destroy our vineyards.[a]

The young woman:

16 My lover belongs to me,
    and I belong to him.
He moves among the lilies with his sheep.
17 Turn back to me, my lover.
    Stay until dawn comes and the shadows have gone,
Be like a gazelle or a young male deer
    that plays among the mountains' rocks.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:15 The foxes may mean anything that spoils the love between the man and woman.