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Young Woman

16 My lover is mine, and I am his.
    He browses among the lilies.
17 Before the dawn breezes blow
    and the night shadows flee,
return to me, my love, like a gazelle
    or a young stag on the rugged mountains.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:17 Or on the hills of Bether.

16 I belong to my lover and he belongs to me—
        the one grazing among the lilies.
17         Before the day breeze blows
        and the shadows flee,
    turn about, my love; be like a gazelle
        or a young stag
        upon the jagged mountains.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:17 Or upon the mountains of Bether; cf 8:14 mountains of spice