The Bridegroom Admiration by the Bridegroom 1 AKJV How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. BSB BSB: How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.
2 AKJV Your navel is like a round goblet, which wants not liquor: your belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. BSB BSB: Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
3 AKJV Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. BSB BSB: Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 AKJV Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: your nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. BSB BSB: Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
5 AKJV Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. BSB BSB: Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
6 AKJV How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights! BSB BSB: How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 AKJV This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes. BSB BSB: Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 AKJV I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples; BSB BSB: I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
9 AKJV And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. BSB BSB: and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.
The Bride 10 AKJV I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. BSB BSB: I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
11 AKJV Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. BSB BSB: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.
12 AKJV Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give you my loves. BSB BSB: Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom—there I will give you my love.
13 AKJV The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. BSB BSB: The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.
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