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¹ Oh my!^[a] You are beautiful, my beloved!
    Oh my!^[b] You are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
    from behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
    that move down from the mountains of Gilead.
² Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes
    that came up from the washing,
all of them bearing twins,
    and there is none bereaved among them.
³ Your lips are like a thread of crimson,
    and your mouth is lovely.
Your temple is like pomegranate
    from behind your veil.
⁴ Your neck is like the tower of David,
    built in courses;
a thousand ornaments^[c] are hung on it,
    all the shields of the warriors.
⁵ Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.
⁶ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee,
    I will go to the mountain of the myrrh,
        to the hill of the frankincense.
⁷ You are completely beautiful, my beloved!
    You are flawless!^[d]

⁸ Come^[e] with me from Lebanon, my bride!
    Come with me^[f] from Lebanon!
Look from the top of Amana,
    from the top of Senir and Hermon,
from the dwelling places of the lions,
    from the mountains of leopard.
⁹ You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride!
    You have stolen my heart with one glance from your eyes,
        with one ornament from your necklaces.
¹⁰ How beautiful is your love, my sister bride!
    How better is your love than wine,
        and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
¹¹ Your lips drip nectar, my bride;
    honey and milk are under your lips;
        the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

¹² A garden locked is my sister bride,
    a spring enclosed,^[g] a fountain sealed.
¹³ Your shoots^[h] are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruit,^[i]
    henna with nard;
¹⁴ nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon spice with all trees of frankincense,
    myrrh and aloes with all chief spices.
¹⁵ A garden fountain, a well of living water,
    flowing (streams) from Lebanon.
¹⁶ Awake, O north wind! Come, O south wind!
    Blow upon my garden! Let its fragrances^[j] waft forth!^[k]
Let my beloved come to his garden,
    let him eat his choice fruit!