Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

He

⁴You are beautiful as vTirzah, wmy love,

xlovely as yJerusalem,

zawesome as an army with banners.

⁵Turn away your eyes from me,

for they overwhelm me—

aYour hair is like a flock of goats

leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

⁶bYour teeth are like a flock of ewes

that have come up from the washing;

all of them bear twins;

not one among them has lost its young.

⁷cYour cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate

behind your veil.

⁸There are dsixty equeens and eighty econcubines,

and fvirgins without number.

⁹My gdove, my hperfect one, is the only one,

the only one of her mother,

pure to iher who bore her.

jThe young women saw her and called her blessed;

ethe queens and econcubines also, and they praised her.

¹⁰k“Who is this who looks down like the dawn,

beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,

lawesome as an army with banners?”

She

¹¹I went down to the nut orchard

to look at mthe blossoms of the valley,

nto see whether the vines had budded,

whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

¹²oBefore I was aware, my desire set me

among pthe chariots of my kinsman, a prince.2