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She Speaks to the Women

Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and wild deer,
don’t awaken love,
    don’t arouse love, until I am ready.[a]

The Women of Jerusalem Speak

Who is this woman
    coming from the desert[b]
    with this large group of people?
The dust rises behind them
    like clouds of smoke from burning myrrh and frankincense and other spices.[c]

Look, Solomon’s traveling chair.[d]
    There are 60 soldiers guarding it,
    strong soldiers of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:5 until I am ready Literally, “until it desires.”
  2. Song of Solomon 3:6 woman coming from the desert See 8:5.
  3. Song of Solomon 3:6 spices Literally, “powders of the trader.” These were imported spices and incense.
  4. Song of Solomon 3:7 traveling chair A kind of chair that the rich traveled in. These chairs were covered and had poles that slaves used to carry them. Also in verse 9.

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