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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains. |
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