Bride
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📚✭I am the rose of Sharon,and the lily of the valleys.
Bridegroom
2 📚Like the lily among thorns,
so is my love✭ among the daughters.
Bride
3 📚Like the apple tree among the trees✭
of the woods,
so is my beloved among the sons.
I sat down under his shade with
great delight,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 📚He brought me to the banqueting house✭,
and his banner over me was love✭.
5 📚✭Sustain me with raisins, refresh me
with apples,
for I am sick with love.
6 📚His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me.
7 📚I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles and by the deer of the field,
not to arouse or awaken my love,
till he pleases.
Love longed for and invited
8 📚✭The voice of my beloved! Look!
He comes leaping on the mountains,
skipping on the hills.
9 📚My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.
See, he stands behind our wall,
he looks out the windows,
peering through the lattice.
10 📚✭My beloved spoke and said to me,
“Rise up, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away.
11 📚For, see, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone,
12 📚The flowers appear on the earth,
the time of the singing of birds has come,
and the voice of the turtledove is
heard in our land.
13 📚The fig tree puts forth its green figs,
and the vines with the tender grapes
give a good smell.
Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away”.
Bridegroom
14 📚✭O my dove in the clefts of the rock,
in the secret places of the steep ledges,
let me see your face, let me hear your
voice;
for your voice is sweet and your face
is lovely.
15 📚✭Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes,
that spoil the vines✭;
for our vineyard have tender grapes.
Bride
16 📚✭My beloved is mine, and I am his.
He grazes his flock among the lilies.
17 📚✭Until the day breaks and the shadows
flee away, turn, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle or a young stag
on the mountains of Bether✭.