Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 How beautiful are thy feet in <em>thy</em> shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs <em>are</em> like jewels, the work of the hands of an <em>excellent</em> workman.
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How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist’s hands.
2 Thy navel <em>is like</em> a round goblet, <em>which</em> does not lack liquor; thy belly <em>is like</em> a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
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Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.
3 Thy two breasts <em>are</em> like two young roes <em>that are</em> twins.
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Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle.
4 Thy neck <em>is</em> as a tower of ivory; thine eyes <em>like</em> the fishpools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim; thy nose <em>is</em> as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
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Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee <em>is</em> like scarlet, and the hair of thine head like the purple of the king hung in the galleries.
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Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
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How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights!
7 This, thy stature is like unto the palm tree, and thy breasts to the clusters.
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Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.
8 I said, I will climb up the palm tree, I will take hold of the clusters thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples;
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I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
9 and thy palate like the best wine that goes into my beloved sweetly and causes the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
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and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
10 I <em>am</em> my beloved’s, and with me he has his contentment.
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I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
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Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vines flourish, <em>whether</em> the tender flowers appear, if the pomegranates bud forth; there I will give thee my loves.
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Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes have given their fragrance, and at our gates <em>are</em> all manner of sweet <em>fruits</em>, new and old, <em>which</em> I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
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The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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