Song of Solomon 6:13–7:13

Friends

¹³Come back, come back, O Shulammite;

come back, come back, that we may gaze on you!

He

Why would you gaze on the Shulammite

as on the dance^d of Mahanaim?^b

7^aHow beautiful your sandaled feet,

O prince’s^e daughter!

Your graceful legs are like jewels,

the work of an artist’s hands.

²Your navel is a rounded goblet

that never lacks blended wine.

Your waist is a mound of wheat

encircled by lilies.

³Your breasts^f are like two fawns,

like twin fawns of a gazelle.

⁴Your neck is like an ivory tower.^g

Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon^h

by the gate of Bath Rabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanonⁱ

looking toward Damascus.

⁵Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.^j

Your hair is like royal tapestry;

the king is held captive by its tresses.

⁶How beautiful^k you are and how pleasing,

my love, with your delights!^l

⁷Your stature is like that of the palm,

and your breasts^m like clusters of fruit.

⁸I said, “I will climb the palm tree;

I will take hold of its fruit.”

May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,

the fragrance of your breath like apples,ⁿ

⁹and your mouth like the best wine.

She

May the wine go straight to my beloved,^o

flowing gently over lips and teeth.^b

¹⁰I belong to my beloved,

and his desire^p is for me.^q

¹¹Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,

let us spend the night in the villages.^c

¹²Let us go early to the vineyards^r

to see if the vines have budded,^s

if their blossoms^t have opened,

and if the pomegranates^u are in bloom^v—

there I will give you my love.

¹³The mandrakes^w send out their fragrance,

and at our door is every delicacy,

both new and old,

that I have stored up for you, my beloved.^x