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Her Lover’s Visit Remembered

W The sound of my lover! here he comes[a]
    springing across the mountains,
    leaping across the hills.
My lover is like a gazelle[b]
    or a young stag.
See! He is standing behind our wall,
    gazing through the windows,
    peering through the lattices.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8–13 In this sudden change of scene, the woman describes a rendezvous and pictures her lover hastening toward her dwelling until his voice is heard calling her to him.
  2. 2:9 Gazelle: a frequent motif in ancient poems from Mesopotamia.

Listen! My beloved!
    Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
    bounding over the hills.(A)
My beloved is like a gazelle(B) or a young stag.(C)
    Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
    peering through the lattice.

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