New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
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How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
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Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
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Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
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Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
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Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
6 How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
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How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
7 You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
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You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. O may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
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I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;
9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
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And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
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I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
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Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.
12 let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
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Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
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The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.
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