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12 A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.
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12 You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
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13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,
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13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard,
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14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices--
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14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
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15 a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
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15 You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
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16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
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16 Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad. Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.
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| Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible) |
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