The Bridegroom Admiration by the Bridegroom 1 UDB You, the daughter of a prince, have lovely feet in your sandals. Your curved hips are like jewels that have been made by a skilled craftsman. 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 UDB Your navel is like a round bowl that I hope will always be full of wine mixed with spices. Your waist is like a pile of wheat with lilies growing around it. 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 UDB Your breasts are as delicate as two young twin deer. BSB BSB: Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 UDB Your neck is like a tower made of ivory. Your eyes sparkle the pools in the city of Heshbon, near the Bath Rabbim Gate. Your nose is long, like the tower in Lebanon that faces 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 UDB Your head is majestic like Mount Carmel. Your long hair is shiny and black; it is as though I, your king, am captured by your tresses. 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 UDB My love, you are so beautiful and lovely with all your delights. BSB BSB: How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 UDB You are stately like a palm tree, and your breasts are like grape clusters. BSB BSB: Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 UDB I said to myself, "I will climb that palm tree and take hold of those clusters of dates." I want your breasts to be also like clusters of grapes that I can feel; I want your breath to be like the sweet fragrance of apricots. 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 UDB I want your kisses to be like very good wine. When I kiss you, the woman who loves me, I want it to be as if it was wine flowing over our mouths and teeth. 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 UDB I belong to the man who loves me, and he desires me. BSB BSB: I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
11 UDB You who love me, let us go to the countryside, and sleep in a village somewhere. BSB BSB: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.
12 UDB And let us go early to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have budded and if there are blossoms on them that have opened, and see if the pomegranate trees are blooming, and there I will allow you to make love to me. 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 UDB The mandrake plants are producing a fragrant odor, and we are surrounded by delightful pleasures, new ones and old ones, pleasures that I have been saving to give to you, the man who loves me. 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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