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May your mouth[a] be like good wine.

The Loved One

May it go down smoothly to my beloved,
    gliding gently over the lips of the sleeping ones.
10 I belong to my beloved,
    and his desire is for me.

11 Come, my beloved.
    Let us go out to the country,
        let us spend the night in the villages.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:9 Lit. palate
  2. Song of Solomon 7:11 Or night among the henna blossoms

    and your mouth like the best wine.

She

May the wine go straight to my beloved,(A)
    flowing gently over lips and teeth.[a]
10 I belong to my beloved,
    and his desire(B) is for me.(C)
11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,
    let us spend the night in the villages.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 7:9 Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew lips of sleepers
  2. Song of Songs 7:11 Or the henna bushes