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Song of Songs 1:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

4 (A)Draw me after you! Let us run![a]
    The king has brought me to his bed chambers.
Let us exult and rejoice in you;
    let us celebrate your love: it is beyond wine!
    Rightly do they love you!

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Footnotes

  1. 1:4 Another change, but from second to third person (cf. 1:2). The “king” metaphor recurs in 1:12; 3:5–11; 7:6. Let us exult: perhaps she is addressing young women, calling on them to join in the praise of her lover.
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