The Bridegroom Admiration by the Bridegroom 1 ULT How your feet are beautiful in sandals, daughter of a noble! The curves of your thighs{ are} like ornaments, the work of the hands of a 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 ULT Your navel{ is} the rounded bowl— that never lacks spiced wine. Your belly{ is} a heap of wheat encircled with the 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 ULT Your two breasts{ are} like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. BSB BSB: Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 ULT Your neck{ is} like a tower of ivory. Your eyes{ are} pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose{ is} like the tower of Lebanon, looking{ to the} face of 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 ULT Your head on you{ is} like Carmel, and the loose hair of your head{ is} like purple; a king is held captive in the 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 ULT How you are beautiful and how you are lovely— love with delights! BSB BSB: How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 ULT This is your height— it is like a palm tree, and your breasts{ like its} clusters. BSB BSB: Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 ULT I said,“I will go up{ the} palm tree; I will grab hold of its fruit stalks.” And, please, let your breasts be like the clusters of the vine, and{ let the} smell of your nose{ be} 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 ULT and{ let} your mouth{ be} like the best wine. Going down for my beloved smoothly, 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 ULT I{ belong} to my beloved and his longing{ is} for me. BSB BSB: I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
11 ULT Come, my beloved, let us go out{ to} the fields; 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 ULT Let us go early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine has budded,{ if} the blossoms have opened,{ if} the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give my love to you. 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 ULT The mandrakes give off a scent, and over our doors{ are} all choice fruits, new ones and also old ones. My beloved, I have stored{ these} up for you. 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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