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Who Is This?

The Friends and Other Bystanders

Who is this woman coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and with incense,
made from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

Look! It’s Solomon’s own carriage.[a]
Sixty warriors surround it,
the most heroic of Israel,
all of them wearing a sword,
all trained for battle,
each man with his sword at his side,
ready for the terrors of the night.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 3:7 Carriage here does not refer to a wheeled vehicle but to a portable chair or couch carried by porters.