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The fading blooms of his glorious beauty
    at the head of the fertile valley
Will be like an early fig before summer:
    whoever sees it,
    swallows it as soon as it is in hand.(A)

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Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear!

I remember the devotion[a] of your youth,
    how you loved me as a bride,
Following me in the wilderness,
    in a land unsown.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:2 Devotion: Heb. hesed; Israel’s gratitude, fidelity, and love for God.