M[a] If you do not know,
most beautiful of women,(A)
follow[b] the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
near the shepherds’ tents.

I compare you, my darling,(B)
to a[c] mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.[d](C)
10 Your cheeks are beautiful with jewelry,(D)
your neck with its necklace.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:8 Some understand the young women to be the speakers in this verse.
  2. Song of Solomon 1:8 Lit go out for yourself into
  3. Song of Solomon 1:9 Lit my
  4. Song of Solomon 1:9 Pharaoh’s chariot horses were stallions.

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