How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil(A) are doves.(B) Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead.(C) 2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.(D) |
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth(E) is lovely.(F) Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.(G) 4 Your neck is like the tower(H) of David, built with courses of stone[a]; on it hang a thousand shields,(I) all of them shields of warriors. |
Your breasts(J) are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle(K) that browse among the lilies.(L) 6 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee,(M) I will go to the mountain of myrrh(N) and to the hill of incense. |
You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;(T) you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.(U) 10 How delightful(V) is your love(W), my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine,(X) and the fragrance of your perfume(Y) more than any spice! |
Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue.(Z) The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.(AA) 12 You are a garden(AB) locked up, my sister, my bride;(AC) you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.(AD) |
Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates(AE) with choice fruits, with henna(AF) and nard, 14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,(AG) with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh(AH) and aloes(AI) and all the finest spices.(AJ) |
You are[b] a garden(AK) fountain,(AL) a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon. (Song of Songs 4) |
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