Solomon Admires His Bride The Bridegroom 1 UEB Oh, you are beautiful, my love; you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats going down from Mount Gilead. BSB BSB: How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
2 UEB Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes, coming up from the washing place. Each one has a twin, and none among them is bereaved. BSB BSB: Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
3 UEB Your lips are like a thread of scarlet; your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like pomegranate halves behind your veil. BSB BSB: Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
4 UEB Your neck is like the tower of David built in rows of stone, with a thousand shields hanging on it, all the shields of soldiers. BSB BSB: Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
5 UEB Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, grazing among the lilies. BSB BSB: Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
6 UEB Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense. BSB BSB: Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
7 UEB You are beautiful in every way, my love and there is no blemish in you. BSB BSB: You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
8 UEB Come with me from Lebanon, my bride. Come with me from Lebanon; come from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from lions' dens, from mountain dens of leopards. BSB BSB: Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
9 UEB You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart, with just one look at me, with just one jewel of your necklace. BSB BSB: You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
10 UEB How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice. BSB BSB: How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
11 UEB Your lips, my bride, drip honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. BSB BSB: Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.
12 UEB My sister, my bride is a garden locked up, a garden locked up, a spring that is sealed. BSB BSB: My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
13 UEB Your branches are a grove of pomegranate trees with choice fruits, and of henna and nard plants, BSB BSB: Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,
14 UEB Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon with all kinds of spices, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices. BSB BSB: with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
15 UEB You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water, streams flowing down from Lebanon. BSB BSB: You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
The Bride 16 UEB Awake, north wind; come, south wind; blow on my garden so that its spices may give off their fragrance. May my beloved come into his garden and eat some of its choice fruit. BSB BSB: Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.
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