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12 I became so happy
    that I did not understand what was happening.
I knew that I wanted to be with her.
    I felt that I was riding with the king's men in their chariots.

The young women of Jerusalem:

13 Come back, come back, young woman from Shulam![a]
Yes, come back,
    so that we can look at you again.

The young man:

Why do you want to look at the young woman from Shulam?
Do not look at her as if she is dancing the dance of Mahanaim.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 6:13 ‘Young woman from Shulam’ could also mean ‘perfect one’.
  2. 6:13 Mahanaim is the name of a place which means ‘two armies’. King David put his soldiers together in a camp there before they fought their enemy.