Song of Songs 1:7-9

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⁷Tell 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

⁸^[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.

⁹I compare you, my darling,^(F)
to a^[d] mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.^(G)

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Footnotes

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

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