The Bridegroom Admiration by the Bridegroom 1 RV How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 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 RV Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about 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 RV Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe. BSB BSB: Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 RV Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; thine eyes as the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim; thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looketh 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 RV Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof . 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 RV How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! BSB BSB: How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 RV This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes . BSB BSB: Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 RV I said, I will climb up into the palm tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof: let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy breath 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 RV And thy mouth like the best wine, that goeth down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those that are asleep. 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 RV I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. BSB BSB: I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
11 RV Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. BSB BSB: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.
12 RV Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine hath budded, and its blossom be open, and the pomegranates be in flower: there will I give thee 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 RV The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O 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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