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

10 My lover spoke and said to me,
“Rise up, my dearest,
        my fairest, and go.
11 Here, the winter is past;
        the rains have come and gone.
12 Blossoms have appeared in the land;
        the season of singing[a] has arrived,
        and the sound of the turtledove is heard in our land.
13 The green fruit is on the fig tree,
        and the grapevines in bloom are fragrant.
Rise up,[b] my dearest,
        my fairest, and go.

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  1. Song of Solomon 2:12 Or pruning
  2. Song of Solomon 2:13 LXX and Kethib add go; but Qere, DSS, Vulg, Syr, and Tg lack the verb; cf 2:10.