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13 New fruit is growing on the fig trees.
There are flowers on the vines,
    and their sweet smell is in the air.
I love you, my beautiful friend.
    Please get up now and come with me!’

The young man:

14 My dear friend, you are like a dove that is hiding among the rocks.
    You hide from me in the mountains.
Show your face to me
    because it is lovely.
Let me hear your voice
    because it has a sweet sound.

15 Catch the foxes for us!
Our vines now have flowers
    and they will soon give us fruit.
So catch the little foxes before they destroy our vineyards.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:15 The foxes may mean anything that spoils the love between the man and woman.