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# gazing ... peering
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The woman shows that she is excited to see the man come by using as few words as possible.
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# like a gazelle or a young stag
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The woman imagines the man coming as fast as he can to be with her.
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# a gazelle
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This is an animal that looks like a deer and moves quickly. Translate as in Song of Songs 2:7.
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# a young stag
"a young male deer"
# look
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"listen carefully" or "what I am about to say is important"
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# behind our wall
"on the other side of our wall." The woman is in a house and the man is outside the house.
# our wall
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The word "our" refers to the woman and the other people in the house with her.
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# gazing through the window
"he stares in through the windows"
# peering through the lattice
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"he peeks through the lattice". A cover for a window or some other entrance that someone has made by weaving long strips of wood together. Lattices have holes that people can look through.