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Song of Solomon 3:5-7
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Song of Solomon 3:5-7
Easy-to-Read Version
She Speaks to the Women
5 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
6 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]
7 Look, Solomon’s traveling chair.[d]
There are 60 soldiers guarding it,
strong soldiers of Israel.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 3:5 until I am ready Literally, “until it desires.”
- Song of Solomon 3:6 woman coming from the desert See 8:5.
- Song of Solomon 3:6 spices Literally, “powders of the trader.” These were imported spices and incense.
- 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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