10 My beloved speaks and says to me:
(A)“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away,
11 for behold, the winter is past;
    (B)the rain is over and gone.
12 (C)The flowers appear on the earth,
    the time of singing[a] has come,
and the voice of (D)the turtledove
    is heard in our land.
13 (E)The fig tree ripens its figs,
    and (F)the vines are in blossom;
    they give forth fragrance.
(G)Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
    and come away.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:12 Or pruning

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
    as (A)a seal upon your arm,
for (B)love is strong as death,
    (C)jealousy[a] is fierce as the grave.[b]
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
    the very (D)flame of the Lord.
Many waters cannot quench love,
    neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
    all the wealth of his (E)house,
    he[c] would be utterly despised.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:6 Or ardor
  2. Song of Solomon 8:6 Hebrew as Sheol
  3. Song of Solomon 8:7 Or it

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