Song of Solomon 4

1 Oh, you are beautiful, my love; you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats going down from Mount Gilead.

Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold, thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves behind thy veil. Thy hair is as a flock of goats that lie along the side of mount Gilead.

2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes, coming up from the washing place. Each one has a twin, and none among them is bereaved.

Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes that are newly shorn, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins, and none is bereaved among them.

3 Your lips are like a thread of scarlet; your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like pomegranate halves behind your veil.

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is comely. Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind thy veil.

4 Your neck is like the tower of David built in rows of stone, with a thousand shields hanging on it, all the shields of soldiers.

Thy neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all the shields of the mighty men.

5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, grazing among the lilies.

Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

6 Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

7 You are beautiful in every way, my love and there is no blemish in you.

Thou are all fair, my love, and there is no spot in thee.

8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride. Come with me from Lebanon; come from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from lions' dens, from mountain dens of leopards.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart, with just one look at me, with just one jewel of your necklace.

Thou have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. Thou have ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice.

How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine, and the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!

11 Your lips, my bride, drip honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Thy lips, O my bride, drop the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

12 My sister, my bride is a garden locked up, a garden locked up, a spring that is sealed.

A garden shut up is my sister, my bride, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

13 Your branches are a grove of pomegranate trees with choice fruits, and of henna and nard plants,

Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

14 Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon with all kinds of spices, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water, streams flowing down from Lebanon.

Thou are a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

16 Awake, north wind; come, south wind; blow on my garden so that its spices may give off their fragrance. May my beloved come into his garden and eat some of its choice fruit.

Awake, O north wind, and come, thou south, blow upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits.