11 come out,
    and look, you daughters of Zion.(A)
Look[a] on King Solomon wearing a crown,
    the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
    the day his heart rejoiced.(B)

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  1. Song of Songs 3:11 Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look

11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
And see King Solomon with the crown
With which his mother crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
The day of the gladness of his heart.

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14 “Return,(A) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.(B) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; (A)“for I am married to you. I will take you, (B)one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to (C)Zion.

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32 It will not be like the covenant(A)
    I made with their ancestors(B)
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,(C)
because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband(D) to[a] them,[b]
declares the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 31:32 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac / and I turned away from
  2. Jeremiah 31:32 Or was their master

32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that (A)I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [a]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 31:32 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. and I turned away from them

She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
    she will look for them but not find them.(A)
Then she will say,
    ‘I will go back to my husband(B) as at first,(C)
    for then I was better off(D) than now.’

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She will [a]chase her lovers,
But not overtake them;
Yes, she will seek them, but not find them.
Then she will say,
(A)‘I will go and return to my (B)first husband,
For then it was better for me than now.’

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  1. Hosea 2:7 Or pursue

16 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;(A)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.[a]

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  1. Hosea 2:16 Hebrew baal

16 “And it shall be, in that day,”
Says the Lord,
That you will call Me [a]‘My Husband,’
And no longer call Me [b]‘My Master,’

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  1. Hosea 2:16 Heb. Ishi
  2. Hosea 2:16 Heb. Baali