Lexham English Bible LEB
New International Version NIV
1 {Oh my}! You [are] beautiful, my beloved! {Oh my}! You [are] beautiful! Your eyes [are] doves from behind your veil. Your hair [is] like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead.
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How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead.
2 Your teeth [are] like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.
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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.
3 Your lips [are] like a thread of crimson, and your mouth [is] lovely. Your temple [is] like pomegranate from behind your veil.
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Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.
4 Your neck [is] like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand {ornaments} are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors.
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Your neck is like the tower of David, built with courses of stone ; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
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 fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.
6 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of the myrrh, to the hill of the frankincense.
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Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.
7 You [are] completely beautiful, my beloved! {You are flawless}!
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You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.
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