Song of Solomon 2
1 I am [like] [MET] a flower/rose from the Sharon [Plain], and [like] [MET] a lily [that grows] in a valley.
I [am] [the] crocus of Sharon lily of the valleys.
2 Among the [other] young women, the one whom I love is like [MET] a lily [growing] among thorns!
Like a lily between the thorns [is] so friend my between the daughters.
3 And among [the other] men, you, the man who loves me, are like [MET] an apple/fruit tree [that grows] in the forest. [You are like a tree whose] shadow [protects me from the sun], and your [being close to me] [EUP] is like [MET] eating sweet fruit.
Like an apple tree among [the] trees of the forest [is] so lover my between the sons in shade his I desired and I sat and fruit his [was] sweet to palate my.
4 You led me to the (banquet room/room where we could make love), and it is evident that you love me very much.
He has brought me into [the] house of wine and standard his over me [is] love.
5 Refresh me and strengthen me [with your lovemaking] [like I am refreshed by eating] [MET, EUP] raisins and other fruit, because I very much desire that you love me even more.
Sustain me with raisin-cakes refresh me with apples for [am] weak of love I.
6 Put your left arm under my head and with your right arm hold me close.
Left [hand] his [is] under head my and right [hand] his it embraces me.
7 You young women of Jerusalem, solemnly promise me, while the does and gazelles [are listening], that you will not disturb us while we are making love until we are ready to quit.
I adjure you O daughters of Jerusalem by gazelles or by [the] does of the field if you will awaken - and if you will arouse love until that it will please.
8 I hear the voice of the man who loves me. [It is as though] [MET] he is leaping over the mountains and skipping over the hills
[the] sound of Lover my there! this [is] coming [is] leaping over the mountains [is] bounding over the hills.
9 like [SIM] a deer or a gazelle. Now he is standing outside the wall of our house, looking in the window, and peering through the (lattice/wooden strips inside the window frame).
[is] like Lover my a gazelle or [the] fawn of the deer there! this [is] standing behind wall our [is] gazing from the windows [is] peering from the lattices.
10 He spoke to me and said, “You whom I love, get up; my beautiful one, come with me [CHI]!
He answered lover my and he said to me arise yourself O friend my beautiful [one] my and come yourself.
11 Look, the (winter/cold season) is ended; the rain has stopped;
For there! (the winter *Qk) it has passed the rain it has passed away it has gone itself.
12 flowers are blooming throughout the country/land. It is now time to sing; we hear the doves cooing.
The blossoms they have appeared in the land [the] time of pruning it has arrived and [the] sound of the turtle-dove it has been heard in land our.
13 There are young/new figs on the fig trees, and there are blossoms on the grapevines and their fragrance fills the air. You whom I love, get up; my beautiful one, come with me!
The fig tree it has ripened early figs its and the vines - blossom they have given forth odor arise (yourself *QK) O friend my beautiful [one] my and come yourself.
14 [You are like] [MET] a dove that is hiding [far from me] in an opening/crack in the rocky cliff. Show me your face, and allow me to hear your voice, because your voice is sweet-sounding and your face is lovely [CHI].”
O dove my in [the] clefts of the rock in [the] hiding place of the steep place let see me form your cause to hear me voice your for voice your [is] sweet and form your [is] lovely.
15 [There are other men who are like] [MET] little jackals/foxes that ruin vineyards; do not allow [those men to attack me].
Seize for us foxes foxes small [which] ruin vineyards and vineyards our [are] blossom.
16 You who love me, I belong to you and you belong to me, and you [experience pleasure when you kiss] my lips [like] [MET] a shepherd enjoys taking care of his sheep.
Lover my [belongs] to me and I [belong] to him who [is] grazing among the lilies.
17 You who love me, come and be like [SIM] a gazelle or like a young deer on the hills of Bether, and then flee like a deer at dawn [tomorrow morning], when the darkness fades.
Until that will breathe the day and they will flee the shadows turn be like yourself O lover my a gazelle or [the] fawn of the deer on [the] mountains of ravine[s].
