Shir Hashirim, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
{7:2} Your body is like a round goblet,
No mixed wine is wanting.
Your waist is like a heap of wheat,
Set about with lilies.
{7:3} Your two breasts are like two fawns,
That are twins of a roe.
{7:4} Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim;
Your nose is like the tower of Levanon which looks toward Dammesek.
{7:5} Your head on you is like Karmel,
The hair of your head like purple;
The king is held captive in its tresses.
{7:6} How beautiful and how pleasant are you,
Love, for delights!
{7:7} This, your stature, is like a palm tree,
Your breasts like its fruit.
{7:8} I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree.
I will take hold of its fruit."
Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
The smell of your breath like apples,
Beloved
{7:9} Your mouth like the best wine,
That goes down smoothly for my beloved,
Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
{7:10} I am my beloved's.
His desire is toward me.
{7:11} Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field.
Let us lodge in the villages.
{7:12} Let's go early up to the vineyards.
Let's see whether the vine has budded,
Its blossom is open,
And the pomegranates are in flower.
There I will give you my love.
{7:13} The [1>]dudaim[<1] give forth fragrance.
At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,
Which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
{8:1} Oh that you were like my brother,
Who sucked the breasts of my mother!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
Yes, and no one would despise me.
{8:2} I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house,
Who would instruct me.
I would have you drink spiced wine,
Of the juice of my pomegranate.
{8:3} His left hand would be under my head.
His right hand would embrace me.
{8:4} I adjure you, daughters of Yerushalayim,
That you not stir up, nor awaken love,
Until it so desires.
Friends
{8:5} Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,
Leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I aroused you.
There your mother conceived you.
There she was in labor and bore you.
{8:6} Set me as a seal on your heart,
As a seal on your arm;
For love is strong as death.
Jealousy is as cruel as She'ol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
A very flame of the LORD.
{8:7} Many waters can't quench love,
Neither can floods drown it.
If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
He would be utterly scorned.
Friends
{8:8} We have a little sister.
She has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
In the day when she is to be spoken for?
{8:9} If she is a wall,
We will build on her a turret of silver.
If she is a door,
We will enclose her with boards of cedar.
Beloved
{8:10} I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,
Then I was in his eyes like one who found shalom.
{8:11} Shlomo had a vineyard at Ba`al Hamon.
He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
{8:12} My own vineyard is before me.
The thousand are for you, Shlomo;
Two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
Lover
{8:13} You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,
Let me hear your voice!
Beloved
{8:14} Come away, my beloved!
Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:13} mandrakes
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