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.

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded limbs are like jeweled chains, the work of a master hand.

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

Your body is like a round goblet in which no mixed wine is wanting. Your abdomen is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

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

Your two breasts are like two fawns, the twins 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.

Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like the pools of 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.

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive by its tresses.

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

How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!

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

Your stature is like that of a palm tree, and your bosom like its clusters.

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.

I resolve that I will climb the palm tree; I will grasp its branches. Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

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.

And your kisses like the best wine— that goes down smoothly and sweetly for my beloved gliding over his lips while he sleeps!

10 “ I am my love’s, and he wants me.

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me!

11 C ome, my love, let us go to 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 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.

Let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened, and whether the pomegranates are in bloom. 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.

The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all manner of choice fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved!