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Love’s Meeting

11 W(A) To the walnut grove[a] I went down,
    to see the young growth of the valley;
To see if the vines were in bloom,
    if the pomegranates had blossomed.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:11 Walnut grove: also a site of activity in a wedding hymn of the Syrian moon goddess Nikkal (cf. the woman compared to the moon in v. 10).

    and his shoots will go forth.(A)
His splendor will be like the olive tree
    and his fragrance like Lebanon cedar.(B)

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