Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 What a magnificent young woman you are! How beautiful are your feet in sandals. The curve of your thighs is like the work of an artist.
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How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2 A bowl is there, that never runs out of spiced wine. A sheaf of wheat is there, surrounded by lilies.
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Your body is like a round goblet, No mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, Set about with lilies.
3 Your breasts are like twin deer, like two gazelles.
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Your two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe.
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in the city of Heshbon, near the gate of that great city. Your nose is as lovely as the tower of Lebanon that stands guard at Damascus.
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Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
5 Your head is held high like Mount Carmel. Your braided hair shines like the finest satin; its beauty could hold a king captive.
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Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.
6 How pretty you are, how beautiful; how complete the delights of your love.
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How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
7 You are as graceful as a palm tree, and your breasts are clusters of dates.
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This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
8 I will climb the palm tree and pick its fruit. To me your breasts are like bunches of grapes, your breath like the fragrance of apples,
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I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The smell of your breath like apples, Beloved
9 and your mouth like the finest wine. Then let the wine flow straight to my lover, flowing over his lips and teeth.
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Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
10 I belong to my lover, and he desires me.
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I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.
11 Come, darling, let's go out to the countryside and spend the night in the villages.
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Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
12 We will get up early and look at the vines to see whether they've started to grow, whether the blossoms are opening and the pomegranate trees are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
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Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, Its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
13 You can smell the scent of mandrakes, and all the pleasant fruits are near our door. Darling, I have kept for you the old delights and the new.
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The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, Which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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