Song of Solomon 6:4–8:14

4  Thou art beautiful, O fmy love, as gTirzah,

hComely as Jerusalem,

iTerrible as an army kwith banners.

5  Turn away thine eyes from me, for ||they have overcome me:

lThy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

6  mThy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing,

Whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

7  nAs a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

8  There are othreescore queens, and fourscore concubines,

And pvirgins without number.

9  qMy dove, rmy undefiled is but one;

She is the only one of her mother,

She is the schoice one of ther that bare her.

uThe daughters saw her, and blessed her;

Yea, othe queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

10  xWho is she that looketh forth as the morning,

Fair as ythe moon, sclear as yzthe sun,

And iterrible as an army with banners?

11  I went down into the garden of nuts to see the afruits of the valley,

And bto see whether the vine flourished, and bthe cpomegranates dbudded.

12  †Or ever I was aware,

My soul ||made me like the echariots of Ammi-nadib.

13  Return, return, O fShulamite;

Return, return, that we may look upon thee.

What will ye see in the Shulamite?

As it were the gcompany ||of two armies.

7 How beautiful are athy feet with shoes, bO prince’s daughter!

The joints of thy thighs are like cjewels,

The work of the hands of da cunning workman.

2  Thy navel is like a round egoblet, which wanteth not †liquor:

Thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with flilies.

3  gThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

4  hThy neck is as a tower of ivory;

Thine eyes like the fishpools in iHeshbon, by the gate of kBath-rabbim:

Thy nose is as lthe tower of mLebanon which looketh toward nDamascus.

5  Thine head upon thee is like ||oCarmel,

And pthe hair of thine head like purple;

qThe king is †held in the rgalleries.

6  How fair and how spleasant art thou, O love, for tdelights!

7  This thy stature is like to a upalm tree,

And thy breasts to xclusters of grapes.

8  I said, I will go up to the upalm tree,

I will take hold of the boughs thereof:

Now also thy breasts shall be as xclusters of the vine,

And the smell of thy nose like yapples;

9  And zthe roof of thy mouth like the best wine

For my beloved, athat goeth down †sweetly,

Causing the lips ||of those that are basleep to speak.

10  cI am my beloved’s, and his ddesire is toward me.

11  Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field;

Let us lodge in the villages.

12  Let us get up early to the vineyards;

Let us esee if the vine flourish, whether the ftender grape †appear,

And ethe pomegranates bud forth:

There will I give thee my loves.

13  The gmandrakes give a smell,

And at hour gates are all manner of ipleasant fruits,

jNew and old,

Which I have klaid up for thee, O my beloved.

8 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!

When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;

Yea, †I should not be despised.

2  I would lead thee, and abring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me:

I would cause thee to drink of bspiced wine of the cjuice of my dpomegranate.

3  eHis left hand should be under my head,

eAnd his right hand should embrace me.

4  fI charge you, gO daughters of Jerusalem,

†That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

5  hWho is this that cometh up from the wilderness,

Leaning upon her beloved?

I iraised thee up under the kapple tree:

There thy mother brought thee forth:

There she brought thee forth that bare thee.

6  Set me as a seal upon thine heart,

As la seal upon thine arm:

For mlove is strong as death;

nJealousy is †cruel as the grave:

The ocoals thereof are coals of fire,

Which hath pa most vehement qflame.

7  Many waters cannot quench love,

Neither can the floods drown it:

iIf a man would give all the substance of his house for love,

It would utterly be contemned.

8  We have a little sister, and rshe hath no breasts:

What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

9  If she be a wall, we will build upon her a spalace of silver:

And if she be a door, we will inclose her with tboards of cedar.

10  I am a wall, and my breasts like utowers:

Then was I in his eyes as one that found †favour.

11  Solomon had a vvineyard at wBaal-hamon;

xHe let out the vineyard unto ykeepers;

Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring za thousand pieces of silver.

12  My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:

Thou, O Solomon, must have za thousand,

And ythose that keep the fruit thereof atwo hundred.

13  bThou that dwellest in the gardens,

cThe companions hearken to thy voice:

dCause me to hear it.

14  e†Make haste, my beloved,

And fbe thou like to a roe or to a young hart

Upon the mountains of spices.