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Come with me from Lebanon, my promised bride;[a]
    come with me from Lebanon.
Descend quickly from the heights of Amana,
    from the peaks of Senir and Hermon,
from the dens of lions,
    from the mountains of leopards.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:8 Promised bride: i.e., the betrothed. Amana . . . Senir . . . Hermon: names of peaks in the Anti-Lebanon. The Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon are two mountain chains on the borders of Palestine. These far-off mountains symbolize the distance that separates the two lovers.