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The Young Woman’s Beauty Extolled

How beautiful you are, my love,
    how very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
    behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
    moving down the slopes of Gilead.(A)

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How beautiful you are, my darling!
    Oh, how beautiful!
    Your eyes behind your veil(A) are doves.(B)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
    descending from the hills of Gilead.(C)

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12 His eyes are like doves
    beside springs of water,
bathed in milk,
    fitly set.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain

12 His eyes are like doves(A)
    by the water streams,
washed in milk,(B)
    mounted like jewels.

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