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“If you don’t know, O most beautiful woman in all the world, follow the trail of my flock to the shepherds’ tents, and there feed your sheep and their lambs. What a lovely filly you are,[a] my love! 10 How lovely your cheeks are, with your hair[b] falling down upon them! How stately your neck with that long string of jewels.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:9 What a lovely filly you are, literally, “I compare you to my mare harnessed to Pharaoh’s chariot.”
  2. Song of Solomon 1:10 with your hair, literally, “with your ornaments.”

Friends

If you do not know, most beautiful of women,(A)
    follow the tracks of the sheep
and graze your young goats
    by the tents of the shepherds.

He

I liken you, my darling, to a mare
    among Pharaoh’s chariot horses.(B)
10 Your cheeks(C) are beautiful with earrings,
    your neck with strings of jewels.(D)

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