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Foxes in Our Vineyard

To the Workers

15 Catch the foxes for us,
the little foxes that ruin the vineyards,
our vineyards that are in blossom.

My Lover Is Mine

The Woman

16 My lover is mine and I am his.
He browses among the lilies.
17 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee,
turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle,
or like a young buck on the divided mountains.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 2:17 The term divided mountains may refer to a part of the woman’s body. Some translations avoid the issue by transliterating as mountains of Bether.