How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O anoble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like bjewels,
the work of ca master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with alilies.
3 aYour two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
4 Your aneck is like an ivory tower.
Your beyes are pools in cHeshbon,
by the gate of Bath‑rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of dLebanon,
which looks toward eDamascus.
5 Your head crowns you like aCarmel,
and your bflowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 aHow beautiful and bpleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like aclusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your amouth like the best wine.
She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.
10 aI am my beloved’s,
band his desire is for me.
The Bride Gives Her Love
11 aCome, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages;
12 let us go out early to the vineyards
aand see whether the vines have budded,
whether bthe grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 aThe mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
bnew as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.