Song of Songs 4

He Speaks to Her

¹My darling, you are so beautiful!

Oh, you are beautiful!

Your eyes are like doves

under your veil.

Your hair is long and flowing,

like little goats dancing down the slopes of Mount Gilead.

²Your teeth are white like ewes[#4:2 Female goats.]

just coming from their bath.

They all give birth to twins;

not one of them has lost a baby.

³Your lips are like a red silk thread.

Your mouth is beautiful.

Your cheeks under your veil

are like two slices of pomegranate.

⁴Your neck is long and thin

like David’s tower.

That tower was built to be decorated

with a thousand shields on its walls,

with the shields of powerful soldiers.

⁵Your breasts are like twin fawns,

like twins of a gazelle,

feeding among the lilies.

⁶I will go to that mountain of myrrh

and to that hill of frankincense

while the day breathes its last breath,

and the shadows run away.

⁷My darling, you are beautiful all over.

Every part of you is perfect.

⁸Come with me, my bride, from Lebanon.

Come with me from Lebanon.

Come from the peak of Amana,

from the top of Senir and Hermon,

from the lion’s caves,

from the mountain of the leopards.

⁹My darling, my bride, you excite me![#4:9 Literally, “sister.” Also in verses 10, 11; 5:1, 2.]

You have stolen my heart with just one quick look from your eyes,

with just one of the jewels from your necklace.

¹⁰Your love is so beautiful, my darling, my bride!

Your love is better than wine.

The smell of your perfume

is better than any kind of spice!

¹¹My bride, your lips drip honey.

Honey and milk are under your tongue.

Your clothes smell as sweet as perfume.

¹²My darling, my bride,

you are pure like a locked garden.

You are like a locked pool,

a closed fountain.

¹³Your limbs are like a garden

filled with pomegranates and other pleasant fruit,

with all the best spices:

henna,

¹⁴nard, saffron, calamus, and cinnamon.[#4:13-14 A kind of yellow flower used in making perfume.; #4:13-14 A kind of reed plant used in making perfume.; #4:13-14 A kind of plant used as a spice and in making perfume.]

Your limbs are like a garden

filled with trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloe.

¹⁵You are like a garden fountain—

a well of fresh water—

flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.

She Speaks

¹⁶Wake up, north wind.

Come, south wind.

Blow on my garden.

Spread its sweet smell.

Let my lover enter his garden

and eat its pleasant fruit.