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1 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.
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[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.
2 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.
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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.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.
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Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like a pomegranate split open behind your veil.
4 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.
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Your neck is like the tower of David, built magnificently, on which hang a thousand bucklers, each one a brave warrior's shield.
5 Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.
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Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among lilies.
6 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.
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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.
7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.
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Everything about you is beautiful, my love; you are without a flaw.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of leopards.
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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.
9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
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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.
10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice!
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My sister, my bride, how sweet is your love! How much better your love than wine, more fragrant your perfumes than any spice!
11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
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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.
12 You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
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My sister, my bride, is a garden locked up, a pool covered over, a spring sealed shut.
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard,
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You are an orchard that puts forth pomegranates and other precious fruits, henna and nard
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
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nard, saffron and aromatic cane, cinnamon and all kinds of frankincense trees, myrrh, aloes, all the best spices.
15 You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
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You are a garden fountain, a spring of running water, flowing down from the L'vanon.
16 Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.
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[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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