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¹ I am but a rose from the Sharon,
just a lily in the valleys.

² Like a lily among thorns
is my darling among the other women.

³ Like an apple tree among the other trees in the forest
is my darling among the other men.
I love to sit in his shadow;
his fruit is sweet to my taste.
⁴ He brings me to the banquet hall;
his banner over me is love.
⁵ Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples,
for I am sick with love.
⁶ [I wish] his left arm [were] under my head,
and his right arm around me.

⁷ I warn you, daughters of Yerushalayim,
by the gazelles and deer in the wilds,
not to awaken or stir up love
until it wants to arise!

⁸ The voice of the man I love! Here he comes,
bounding over the mountains, skipping over the hills!
⁹ My darling is like a gazelle or young stag.
There he is, standing outside our wall,
looking in through the windows,
peering in through the lattice.
¹⁰ My darling speaks; he is saying to me,
"Get up, my love! My beauty! Come away!
¹¹ For you see that the winter has passed,
the rain is finished and gone,
¹² the flowers are appearing in the countryside,
the time has come for [the birds] to sing,
and the cooing of doves can be heard in the land.
¹³ The fig trees are forming their unripe figs,
and the grapevines in bloom give out their perfume.
Get up, my love, my beauty!
Come away!"

¹⁴ My dove, hiding in holes in the rock,
in the secret recesses of the cliff,
let me see your face and hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

¹⁵ "Catch the foxes for us,
yes, the little foxes!
They are ruining the vineyards
when our vineyards are in bloom!"

¹⁶ My darling is mine, and I am his,
as he pastures his flock among the lilies.
¹⁷ Before the daytime breeze rises
and the shadows flee,
return, my love, like a stag or gazelle
on the hills of Beter.