10 “My beloved responded and said to me,
(A)Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along.
11 For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.
12 The blossoms have already appeared in the land;
The time has arrived for [a]pruning the vines,
And the voice of the (B)turtledove has been heard in our land.
13 The (C)fig tree has ripened its fruit,
And the (D)vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance.
Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along!’”

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:12 Or singing

The Lover

10 My beloved spoke to me:
    “Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.
11 Look! Winter is past.
    The rain is over and gone.
12 Blossoms have appeared in the land.
    The season of songbirds[a] has arrived,
        and cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree has produced its fruit,[b]
    the grapevines have blossomed and exude their fragrance.

“Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:12 Or for pruning
  2. Song of Solomon 2:13 Lit. has ripened