Tell me, you, the one I love:(A)
Where do you pasture your sheep?(B)
Where do you let them rest at noon?(C)
Why should I be like one who veils herself[a][b]
beside the flocks of your companions?(D)

M[c] If you do not know,
most beautiful of women,(E)
follow[d] the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
near the shepherds’ tents.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:7 Or who wanders
  2. Song of Solomon 1:7 To express shame or grief, or to conceal identity as a prostitute would; Gn 38:14-15
  3. Song of Solomon 1:8 Some understand the young women to be the speakers in this verse.
  4. Song of Solomon 1:8 Lit go out for yourself into

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