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Song of Songs 1:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

15 M(A) How beautiful you are, my friend,
    how beautiful! your eyes are doves![a]
16 W How beautiful you are, my lover—
    handsome indeed!
Verdant indeed is our couch;[b]
17     the beams of our house are cedars,
    our rafters, cypresses.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:15 Doves: doves are pictured in the ancient world as messengers of love.
  2. 1:16–17 Continuing the royal metaphor, the meeting place of the lovers, a shepherd’s hut of green branches, becomes a palace with beams of cedar and rafters of cypress when adorned with their love.
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