1 “ How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O daughter! Your legs are like stones of much worth, the work of an able workman.

2 Y our navel is like a beautiful glass full of wine. Your stomach is like gathered grain with lilies around it.

3 Y our two breasts are like two young deer, the two young ones of a gazelle.

4 Y our neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus.

5 Y our head crowns you like Carmel. Your flowing hair is like strings of purple. The king is held by the beauty of your hair.

6 H ow beautiful and how pleasing you are, my love! How happy you make me!

7 Y ou stand like a palm tree. And your breasts are like its fruit.

8 I said, ‘I will go to the top of the palm tree. I will take hold of its branches.’ O, may your breasts be like the fruit of the vine, and the sweet smell of your breath like pleasing fruit.

9 A nd may your mouth be like the best wine.” The Woman “For my love, it is smooth going down, flowing through the lips while sleeping.

10 “ I am my love’s, and he wants me.

11 C ome, my love, let us go to the country. Let us spend the night in the villages.

12 L et us get up early and go to the grape-fields. Let us see if the buds are on the vines, and if its flowers have opened. Let us see if the pomegranates have flowers. There I will give you my love.

13 T he mandrakes have given out their sweet smell. And over our doors are all the best fruits, both new and old, which I have saved for you, my love.