Song of Solomon 6:10-12

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¹⁰‘Who is this,’ they ask, ‘arising as the dawn, fair as the moon, pure as the sun, so utterly captivating?’”^[a]

The Girl: ¹¹“I went down into the orchard of nuts and out to the valley to see the springtime there, to see whether the grapevines were budding or the pomegranates were blossoming yet. ¹²Before I realized it, I was stricken with terrible homesickness and wanted to be back among my own people.”^[b]

The Young Women of Jerusalem:

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Footnotes

Song of Solomon 6:10 so utterly captivating, literally, “terrible as an army with banners.”
Song of Solomon 6:12 among my own people, literally, “among the chariots of my princely people.” Another possible reading is, “beside my beloved in his chariot.”