Song of Solomon 2:12
The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land. (NAB)
The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. (NRSV)
*One feature of Hebrew poetry is Janus parallelism where certain words can be read in more than one way. This explains the different translations of the same text above.



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