The Bride’s Admiration The Bride 1 UDB I am like an insignificant flower in the plains, like an insignificant lily growing in a valley. BSB BSB: I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
The Bridegroom 2 UDB Among all the other young women, you, the one whom I love, are like a lily growing among thorns! BSB BSB: Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
The Bride 3 UDB Among all the other men, this man is the one who loves me; he is like a tree that grows in the forest. Under his shade I am safe from the sun. When he is close to me, it is like eating sweet fruit. BSB BSB: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 UDB He led me to the room where I feasted on his love, where he made love to me as if he were covering me with his love. BSB BSB: He has brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me is love.
5 UDB Refresh me and strengthen me with your lovemaking. It is like eating raisins and other fruit, because I want you to love me even more. BSB BSB: Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
6 UDB I hope he puts his left arm under my head and holds me close with his right arm. BSB BSB: His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
7 UDB You young women of Jerusalem, I want you to take an oath, while the does and gazelles are listening, that you will not cause us to desire love until the right time comes. BSB BSB: O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
8 UDB I hear the voice of the man who loves me. It is as though he is leaping over the mountains and skipping over the hills BSB BSB: Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
9 UDB like a deer or a gazelle. Now he is standing outside the wall of our house, looking in the window, and peering through the lattice. BSB BSB: My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
10 UDB He spoke to me and said, "You whom I love, get up; my beautiful one, come with me! BSB BSB: My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
11 UDB Look, the winter has ended; the rain has stopped. BSB BSB: For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
12 UDB The flowers are blooming throughout the country. It is now time to sing; we hear the pigeons cooing. BSB BSB: The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
13 UDB There are young figs on the fig trees, and there are blossoms on the grapevines and their fragrance fills the air. You whom I love, get up; my beautiful one, come with me! BSB BSB: The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
The Bridegroom 14 UDB You are like a dove hiding in the rocky cliff. Show me your face, and allow me to hear your voice, because your voice is sounds sweet, and your face is lovely." BSB BSB: O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
The Friends 15 UDB There are other men who ruin women as wild dogs ruin vineyards; do not allow those men to attack me. BSB BSB: Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.
The Bride 16 UDB This man whom I love—I belong to him, and he belongs to me. He takes great pleasure in kissing my lips, as sheep love to graze in pastures. BSB BSB: My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
17 UDB You whom I love, you must go away before dawn, when the darkness disappears. Go away quickly, like a gazelle or like a young deer running on the high hills. BSB BSB: Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
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