1 “ How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! The curves of your hips are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.

¶ How beautiful are thy feet in thy shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of an excellent workman.

2 “ Your navel is like a round goblet Which never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat Fenced about with lilies.

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which does not lack liquor; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

3 “ Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

4 “ Your neck is like a tower of ivory, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, Which faces toward Damascus.

Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim; thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

5 “ Your head crowns you like Carmel, And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads; The king is captivated by your tresses.

Thine head upon thee is like scarlet, and the hair of thine head like the purple of the king hung in the galleries.

6 “ How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your charms!

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

7 “ Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.

This, thy stature is like unto the palm tree, and thy breasts to the clusters.

8 “ I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree, I will take hold of its fruit stalks.’ Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of your breath like apples,

I said, I will climb up the palm tree, I will take hold of the clusters thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples;

9 A nd your mouth like the best wine!” “ It goes down smoothly for my beloved, Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep. The Union of Love

and thy palate like the best wine that goes into my beloved sweetly and causes the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

10 “ I am my beloved’s, And his desire is for me.

¶ I am my beloved’s, and with me he has his contentment.

11 “ Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages.

Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

12 “ Let us rise early and go to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine has budded And its blossoms have opened, And whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vines flourish, whether the tender flowers appear, if the pomegranates bud forth; there I will give thee my loves.

13 “ The mandrakes have given forth fragrance; And over our doors are all choice fruits, Both new and old, Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.

The mandrakes have given their fragrance, and at our gates are all manner of sweet fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.