The Targumist and other Jewish interpreters understand this section to foreshadow the condition of Israel in the wilderness. In a similar way, some…

Where you feed ... your flock ... For why should I be ... ?—The marginal reading, that is veiled, follows the Se…

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand does embrace me.

I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, an…

Tell me, O you whom my soul loves
With all her heart, cordially and sincerely; for, notwithstanding her sinful compl…