Tell me, you whom 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]
beside the flocks of your companions?(D)

Man

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

I compare you, my darling,(F)
to a[d] mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:7 Or who wanders
  2. 1:8 Some understand the young women to be the speakers in this verse.
  3. 1:8 Lit go out for yourself into
  4. 1:9 Lit my

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