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(A)Like a tower of David, your neck,
    built in courses,
A thousand shields hanging upon it,
    all the armor of warriors.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 The ornaments about her neck are compared to the trophies and armaments on the city walls. Cf. 1 Kgs 10:10; 14:26–28; Ez 27:10.

Your neck is like the tower(A) of David,
    built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(B)
    all of them shields of warriors.

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  1. Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.