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16 My bed is spread with beautiful blankets,
    with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.

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There will be no flax for the harvesters,
    no thread for the weavers.

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Your sails were made of Egypt’s finest linen,
    and they flew as a banner above you.
You stood beneath blue and purple awnings
    made bright with dyes from the coasts of Elishah.

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22 “Therefore, I will throw her on a bed of suffering,[a] and those who commit adultery with her will suffer greatly unless they repent and turn away from her evil deeds.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:22 Greek a bed.

22 She makes her own bedspreads.
    She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.

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28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt[a] and from Cilicia[b]; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:28a Possibly Muzur, a district near Cilicia; also in 10:29.
  2. 10:28b Hebrew Kue, probably another name for Cilicia.

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