The Bridegroom Admiration by the Bridegroom 1 DBY How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist. 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 DBY Thy navel is a round goblet, which wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a 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 DBY Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle; BSB BSB: Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 DBY Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, like the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh 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 DBY Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by thy ringlets! 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 DBY How fair and how pleasant art thou, my love, in delights! BSB BSB: How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 DBY This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape clusters. BSB BSB: Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 DBY I said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; And thy breasts shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy 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 DBY And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ...That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep. 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 DBY 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 DBY — Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; 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 DBY We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, If the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee 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 DBY The mandrakes yield fragrance; And at our gates are all choice fruits, new and old: I have laid them up for thee, 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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