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756 B
756 B
The lover continues to speak to the woman.
Come with me...dens of leopards
The lover wants his bride to come with him away from a wild and dangerous place. This is a metaphor and the couple is not really on these mountains or by these dens. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
from Lebanon
"away from Lebanon"
Amana
the name of a mountain near Damascus (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)
Senir
the name of a mountain near Amana and Hermon. Some people think that this refers to the same mountain as Hermon. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)
dens
places where lions and leopards live, like caves or holes in the ground