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Solomon Admires His Bride's Beauty

 Behold, you are beautiful, my love,
behold, you are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
² Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes
that have come up from the washing,
all of which bear twins,
and not one among them has lost its young.
³Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
and your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
⁴Your neck is like the tower of David,
built in rows of stone;^[a]
on it hang a thousand shields,
all of them shields of warriors.
⁵Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,
that graze among the lilies.
⁶Until the day breathes
and the shadows flee,
I will go away to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.
⁷You are altogether beautiful, my love;
there is no flaw in you.
⁸Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;
come with me from Lebanon.
Depart^[b] from the peak of Amana,
from the peak of Senir and Hermon,
from the dens of lions,
from the mountains of leopards.

⁹You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;
you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.
¹⁰How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
¹¹Your lips drip nectar, my bride;
honey and milk are under your tongue;
the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
¹²A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
a spring locked, a fountain sealed.
¹³Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates
with all choicest fruits,
henna with nard,
¹⁴nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
with all trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all choice spices—
¹⁵a garden fountain, a well of living water,
and flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹⁶Awake, O north wind,
and come, O south wind!
Blow upon my garden,
let its spices flow.

Together in the Garden of Love

Let my beloved come to his garden,
and eat its choicest fruits.

Footnotes:

1. Song of Solomon 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
2. Song of Solomon 4:8 Or Look

Cross references:

1. Song of Solomon 4:1:See ch. 1:15
2. Song of Solomon 4:1:ch. 1:15; 5:12
3. Song of Solomon 4:1:ch. 6:7
4. Song of Solomon 4:1:ch. 6:5; [ch. 7:5]
5. Song of Solomon 4:1:Mic. 7:14
6. Song of Solomon 4:2:ch. 6:6
7. Song of Solomon 4:3:[Josh. 2:18]
8. Song of Solomon 4:3:ch. 1:5; 2:14
9. Song of Solomon 4:3:ch. 6:7
10. Song of Solomon 4:3:[See ver. 1 above]; ch. 6:7
11. Song of Solomon 4:4:[ch. 7:4]
12. Song of Solomon 4:4:Neh. 3:19
13. Song of Solomon 4:4:[Ezek. 27:10, 11]
14. Song of Solomon 4:4:[2 Sam. 1:21]
15. Song of Solomon 4:5:ch. 7:3; [ch. 8:10; Prov. 5:19]
16. Song of Solomon 4:5:See ch. 2:9
17. Song of Solomon 4:5:ch. 2:16; 6:3
18. Song of Solomon 4:6:ch. 2:17
19. Song of Solomon 4:6:ver. 14; [ch. 3:6]
20. Song of Solomon 4:6:ver. 14; [ch. 3:6]
21. Song of Solomon 4:7:See ch. 1:15
22. Song of Solomon 4:7:ch. 5:2; [Eph. 5:27]
23. Song of Solomon 4:8:[Ps. 45:10, 11]
24. Song of Solomon 4:8:ch. 7:4; See 1 Kgs. 4:33
25. Song of Solomon 4:8:[Isa. 62:5]
26. Song of Solomon 4:8:ch. 7:4; See 1 Kgs. 4:33
27. Song of Solomon 4:8:Deut. 3:9; 1 Chr. 5:23
28. Song of Solomon 4:8:Ps. 89:12
29. Song of Solomon 4:9:ch. 5:1, 2
30. Song of Solomon 4:9:[Judg. 8:26]
31. Song of Solomon 4:10:[See ver. 9 above]; ch. 5:1, 2
32. Song of Solomon 4:10:ch. 1:2, 4
33. Song of Solomon 4:10:[ch. 1:3]
34. Song of Solomon 4:11:[Prov. 5:3]
35. Song of Solomon 4:11:Prov. 24:13
36. Song of Solomon 4:11:Hos. 14:6; [Gen. 27:27]
37. Song of Solomon 4:11:[See ver. 8 above]; ch. 7:4; See 1 Kgs. 4:33
38. Song of Solomon 4:12:[See ver. 9 above]; ch. 5:1, 2
39. Song of Solomon 4:12:[Gen. 29:3; Dan. 6:17]
40. Song of Solomon 4:12:[Prov. 5:15]
41. Song of Solomon 4:13:Eccles. 2:5
42. Song of Solomon 4:13:ch. 7:13
43. Song of Solomon 4:13:ch. 1:14
44. Song of Solomon 4:13:See ch. 1:12
45. Song of Solomon 4:14:Ex. 30:23
46. Song of Solomon 4:14:Ex. 30:23
47. Song of Solomon 4:14:ver. 6
48. Song of Solomon 4:14:See ch. 3:6
49. Song of Solomon 4:14:John 19:39
50. Song of Solomon 4:14:Ex. 30:23
51. Song of Solomon 4:15:Jer. 2:13; [John 4:10; 7:38]
52. Song of Solomon 4:15:[See ver. 8 above]; ch. 7:4; See 1 Kgs. 4:33
53. Song of Solomon 4:16:[ch. 5:1; 6:2]
54. Song of Solomon 4:16:[ch. 6:2]
55. Song of Solomon 4:16:ch. 6:2
56. Song of Solomon 4:16:[See ver. 13 above]; ch. 7:13