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I had just left the guards
    when I found the man I love!
I held him and would not let him go,
    while I took him to my mother’s house,
    to the room of one who bore[a] me.

She Speaks to the Women

Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and wild deer,
don’t awaken love,
    don’t arouse love, until I am ready.[b]

The Women of Jerusalem Speak

Who is this woman
    coming from the desert[c]
    with this large group of people?
The dust rises behind them
    like clouds of smoke from burning myrrh and frankincense and other spices.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:4 bore Or “taught.” See 8:2.
  2. Song of Solomon 3:5 until I am ready Literally, “until it desires.”
  3. Song of Solomon 3:6 woman coming from the desert See 8:5.
  4. Song of Solomon 3:6 spices Literally, “powders of the trader.” These were imported spices and incense.

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