The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 [He] How beautiful you are, my love! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gil'ad.
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See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep that have just come up from being washed; each of them is matched, and none of them is missing.
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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like a pomegranate split open behind your veil.
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Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built magnificently, on which hang a thousand bucklers, each one a brave warrior's shield.
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Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among lilies.
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Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.
6 When the day's cool breeze comes up and the shadows lengthen, I will get myself to the mountain of myrrh to the hill of frankincense.
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Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
7 Everything about you is beautiful, my love; you are without a flaw.
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You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.
8 Come with me from the L'vanon, my bride, come with me from the L'vanon. Come down from the heights of Amanah, from the heights of S'nir and Hermon, down from the lions' lairs and the leopard-haunted hills.
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Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
9 My sister, my bride, you have carried my heart away! With just one glance, with one bead of your necklace you have carried my heart away.
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You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!
10 My sister, my bride, how sweet is your love! How much better your love than wine, more fragrant your perfumes than any spice!
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How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
11 Your lips, my bride, drip honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the scent of your garments is like the scent of the L'vanon.
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Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
12 My sister, my bride, is a garden locked up, a pool covered over, a spring sealed shut.
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A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
13 You are an orchard that puts forth pomegranates and other precious fruits, henna and nard
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The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
14 nard, saffron and aromatic cane, cinnamon and all kinds of frankincense trees, myrrh, aloes, all the best spices.
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Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
15 You are a garden fountain, a spring of running water, flowing down from the L'vanon.
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You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.
16 [She] Awake, north wind! Come, south wind! Blow on my garden to spread its fragrance. Let my darling enter his garden and eat its finest fruit.
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Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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