Song of Solomon 8:13
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You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!
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Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.
Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.
For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.
And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.
“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”