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4 How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Behind your veil,
your eyes are doves.d
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down Mount Gilead.e
2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep
coming up from washing,
each one bearing twins,
and none has lost its young.B,f
3 Your lips are like a scarlet cord,g
and your mouthC is lovely.
Behind your veil,
your browD is like a slice of pomegranate.h
4 Your neck is like the tower of David,i
constructed in layers.
A thousand shields are hung on it—
all of them shields of warriors.
5 Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,j that feed among the lilies.
6 Until the day breaksE
and the shadows flee,k
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.l
7 You are absolutely beautiful,m my darling;
there is no imperfection in you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon,* n my bride;o
come with me from Lebanon!
Descend from the peak of Amana,
from the summit of Senir and Hermon,p
from the dens of the lions,
from the mountains of the leopards.
9 You have captured my heart,q my sister,r my bride.
You have captured my heart with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.
10 How delightful your caresses are, my sister, my bride.
Your caresses are much better than wine,s
and the fragrance of your perfume than any balsam.
11 Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride.t
Honey and milku are under your tongue.
The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
12 My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden—
a locked gardenA and a sealed spring.v
13 Your branches are a paradiseB of pomegranates
with choicest fruits;w
henna with nard,
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,x
with all the trees of frankincense,y
myrrh and aloes,z
with all the best spices.
a well of flowing wateraa
streaming from Lebanon.
16 Awaken,ab north wind;
come, south wind.
Blow on my garden,
and spread the fragrance of its spices.
Let my love come to his garden
and eat its choicest fruits.ac
5 I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.
I gatherC my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.
Narrator
Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with caresses!D,ad
2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My love was knocking!a
Man
Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my perfect one.
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.
3 I have taken off my clothing.b
How can I put it back on?
I have washed my feet.
How can I get them dirty?
4 My love thrust his hand through the opening,
and my feelings were stirred for him.
My hands dripped with myrrh,c
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
but my love had turned and gone away.
My heart sankE because he had left.F
I sought him, but did not find him.d
I called him, but he did not answer.
7 The guards who go about the city found me.e
They beat and wounded me;
they took my cloakG from me—
the guardians of the walls.f
8 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you,g
if you find my love,
tell him that I am lovesick.h
9 What makes the one you love better than another,
most beautiful of women?i
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
10 My love is fit and strong,A,j
notable among ten thousand.k
and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like dovesm
beside flowing streams,
washed in milk
and set like jewels.C
13 His cheeksn are like beds of spice,
mounds ofD perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.o
14 His armsE are rods of gold
His bodyG is an ivory panel
covered with lapis lazuli.q
15 His legs are alabaster pillars
set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon,r
as majestic as the cedars.s
He is absolutely desirable.t
This is my love, and this is my friend,
young women of Jerusalem.
6 Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has heH turned?
We will seek him with you.
2 My love has gone down to his garden,u
to beds of spice,v
to feed in the gardensw
and gather lilies.x
3 I am my love’s and my love is mine;y
he feeds among the lilies.
4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners.z
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
for they captivate me.aa
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.ab
6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
7 Behind your veil,ad
your browJ is like a slice of pomegranate.
and eighty concubinesae
and young women* without number.
9 But my dove,a my virtuous one, is unique;b
she is the favorite of her mother,
perfect to the one who gave her birth.
Women see her and declare her fortunate;c
queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:
10 Who is thisd who shines like the dawn,
as beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners?e
11 I came down to the walnut grove
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were buddingf
and the pomegranates blooming.
12 I didn’t know what was happening to me.
I felt like I was
in a chariot with a nobleman.A
13 Come back, come back, Shulammite!B
Come back, come back, that we may look at you!
Man
How you gaze at the Shulammite,
7 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess!D,i
The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
the handiwork of a master.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.j
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,k
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by Bath-rabbim’s gate.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns youE like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captivel in your tresses.
6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant,m
my love, with such delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”n
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.o
9 Your mouthF is like fine winep—
Woman
flowing smoothly for my love,
gliding past my lips and teeth!G
let’s go to the field;
let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.A
12 Let’s go early to the vineyards;
let’s see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.s
There I will give you my caresses.
13 The mandrakest give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy,
both new and old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
8 If only I could treat you like my brother,B
one who nursed at my mother’s breasts,
I would find you in public and kiss you,
and no one would scorn me.
2 I would lead you, I would take you,
to the house of my motheru who taught me.C
I would give you spiced wine to drink
from the juice of my pomegranate.
3 May his left hand be under my head,
and his right arm embrace me.v
4 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you,
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.a
5 Who is thisb coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on the one she loves?
Woman
I awakened you under the apricot tree.c
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
6 Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.d
For love is as strong as death;e
jealousy is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flamesf—
an almighty flame!D
7 A huge torrent cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealthE for love,g
it would be utterly scorned.
8 Our sister is young;
she has no breasts.h
What will we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
we will build a silver barricade on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with cedar planks.i
10 I amF a wall
and my breasts like towers.
So to him I have become
11 Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.j
He leased the vineyard to tenants.k
Each was to bring for his fruit
one thousand pieces of silver.l
The one thousand are for you, Solomon,
but two hundred for those who take care of its fruits.
13 YouB who dwell in the gardens,
companionsn are listening for your voice;
let me hear you!o
14 Run away with me,C my love,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.p
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