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Just then, as I left them, I found my lover!
    I hugged him and I would not let him go.
I took him to my mother's house.
I took him into my mother's bedroom.
    That is where my life started, inside my mother's body.

Promise this to me, young women of Jerusalem:
    Do not cause our love to wake up.
Do not cause it to become too strong
    until the time is right.
The gazelles and the wild deer will know about your promise.

A royal wedding

Who is this who is coming from the desert?[a]
    It seems that smoke is rising into the air!
There is a lovely smell of myrrh and incense.[b]
    It is the smell of all the spices that a trader sells.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:6 The speaker here may be the young woman herself, or it might be one of her friends.
  2. 3:6 The ‘smoke’ that is rising may be sand or dirt from the ground. It blows about because many people are moving. There is also a lovely smell of spice.