Song of Songs 6:8-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Sixty are the queens, eighty the concubines,
and young women without number—
9 One alone[a] is my dove, my perfect one,
her mother’s special one,
favorite of the one who bore her.
Daughters see her and call her happy,
queens and concubines, and they praise her:
Footnotes
- 6:9 One alone: the incomparability of the woman is a favorite motif in love poetry.
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