The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
the handiwork of a master.
2Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
3Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.7:3 Sg 4:5
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by Bath-rabbim’s gate.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
5Your head crowns you7:5 Lit head upon you is like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth —
a king could be held captive7:5 Sg 4:9 in your tresses.
6How beautiful you are and how pleasant,7:6 Sg 1:15–16
my love, with such delights!
7Your stature is like a palm tree;
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”7:8 Pr 5:19
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.7:8 Sg 2:3
Woman
flowing smoothly for my love,
gliding past my lips and teeth!7:9 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads past lips of sleepers
10I am my love’s,
11Come, my love,
let’s go to the field;
let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.7:11 Or the villages
12Let’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.7:12 Sg 6:11
There I will give you my caresses.
13The mandrakes7:13 Gn 30:14–16 give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy,
both new and old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
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