The Bridegroom Admiration by the Bridegroom 1 UEB How beautiful your feet appear in your sandals, prince's daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a master 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 UEB Your navel is like a round bowl; may it never lack mixed wine. Your belly is like a mound of wheat encircled 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 UEB Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. BSB BSB: Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 UEB Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower in Lebanon that 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 UEB Your head is on you like Carmel; the hair on your head is dark purple. The king is held captive by its 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 UEB How beautiful and how lovely you are, my love, with delights! BSB BSB: How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 UEB Your height is like that of a date palm tree, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. BSB BSB: Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 UEB I said, "I want to climb that palm tree; I will take hold of its branches." May your breasts be like clusters of grapes, and may the fragrance of your nose be like 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 UEB May your palate be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding over the lips of those who sleep. 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 UEB I am my beloved's, and he desires me. BSB BSB: I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
11 UEB Come, my beloved, let us go out into the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages. BSB BSB: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.
12 UEB Let us rise early to go to the vineyards; let us see whether the vines have budded, whether their blossoms have opened, and whether the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love. 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 UEB The mandrakes give off their fragrance; at the door where we are staying are all sorts of choice fruits, new and old, that I have stored up for you, 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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