Who is she that cometh up out of the [a]wilderness like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh and incense, and with all the [b]spices of the merchant?

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:6 This is referred to the Church of Israel, which was led by the wilderness forty years.
  2. Song of Solomon 3:6 Hebrew, powder.

Who is this coming up from the wilderness(A)
    like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh(B) and incense
    made from all the spices(C) of the merchant?

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(Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness, leaning upon her well-beloved?) I raised thee up under an apple tree: there the mother conceived thee: there she conceived that bare thee.

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Friends

Who is this coming up from the wilderness(A)
    leaning on her beloved?

She

Under the apple tree I roused you;
    there your mother conceived(B) you,
    there she who was in labor gave you birth.

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