Your neck is like the tower of David,(A)
constructed in layers.
A thousand bucklers are hung on it—
all of them shields of warriors.[a]
Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,(B) that feed among the lilies.
Before the day breaks[b]
and the shadows flee,(C)
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:4 Perhaps describing the woman’s necklace
  2. Song of Solomon 4:6 Lit breathes

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