Revised Standard Version RSV
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.
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Look at you! You are beautiful, my true love. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats moving down Mount Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved.
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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep about to be sheared, sheep that come up from the washing. All of them bear twins, and not one has lost its young.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
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Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like slices of pomegranate.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an arsenal, whereon hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.
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Your neck is like David's beautifully-designed tower. A thousand round shields belonging to soldiers are hung on it.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
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Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin gazelles grazing among the lilies.
6 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will hie me to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
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When the day brings a cool breeze and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of incense.
7 You are all fair, my love; there is no flaw in you.
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You are beautiful in every way, my true love. There is no blemish on you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Ama'na, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.
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You will come with me from Lebanon, from Lebanon as my bride. You will travel with me from the peak of Mount Amana, from the mountain peaks in Senir and Hermon, from the lairs of lions, from the mountains of leopards.
9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
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My bride, my sister, you have charmed me. You have charmed me with a single glance from your eyes, with a single strand of your necklace.
10 How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride! how much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
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How beautiful are your expressions of love, my bride, my sister! How much better are your expressions of love than wine and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice.
11 Your lips distil nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.
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Your lips drip honey, my bride. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The fragrance of your clothing is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
12 A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.
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My bride, my sister is a garden that is locked, a garden that is locked, a spring that is sealed.
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,
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You are paradise that produces pomegranates and the best fruits, henna flowers and nard,
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices--
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nard and saffron, calamus, cinnamon, and all kinds of incense, myrrh, aloes, and all the best spices.
15 a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
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[You are] a spring for gardens, a well of living water flowing from Lebanon.
16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
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Awake, north wind! Come, south wind! Blow on my garden! Let its spices flow from it. Let my beloved come to his garden, and let him eat his own precious fruit.
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