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Proverbs 7:17-19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

17 I have sprinkled my bed[a] with myrrh,
    with aloes, and with cinnamon.
18 Come, let us drink our fill of love,
    until morning, let us feast on love!
19 For my husband is not at home,[b]
    he has gone on a long journey;

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Footnotes

  1. 7:17 Bed: a bed can designate a place of burial in Is 57:2; Ez 32:25; 2 Chr 16:14. Myrrh…aloes: the spices could be used for funerals as for weddings (Jn 19:39). It is possible that the language is ambivalent, speaking of death as it seems to speak of life. As the woman offers the youth a nuptial feast, she is in reality describing his funerary feast.
  2. 7:19–20 For my husband is not at home: the woman is calculating. She knows exactly how long her husband will be gone.
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