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1 How graceful are your sandaled feet, willing woman! The smooth curves of your thighs—like fine jewelry, the work of an artist's hands!
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How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 Your navel, cupped like the full moon— may it never lack spiced wine! Your belly is a mound of winnowed wheat edged with lilies.
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Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle doe;
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Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 your neck, like a tower of ivory; your eyes, pools in Heshbon, by the gate of that lordly city. Your profile is like the tower of Lebanon, looking out toward Damascus.
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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.
5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and your hair, braided in royal purple— a king is bound by the tresses!
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Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 You are so beautiful, so lovely— my love, delightful one!
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How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
7 Your stately form resembles a date palm, and your breasts are like clustered fruit.
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You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say, "I will climb the palm tree; I will hold its fruit!" May your breasts be now like grape clusters, and the scent of your breath like apples!
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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,
9 Your palate is like excellent wine . . . [Woman]. . . flowing smoothly for my love, gliding through the lips and teeth.
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and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
10 I belong to my lover, and his longing is only for me.
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I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
11 [Woman]Come, my love: Let's go out to the field and rest all night among the flowering henna.
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Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
12 Let's set out early for the vineyards. We will see if the vines have budded and the blossoms opened, see if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I'll give my loving to you.
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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.
13 The mandrakes give off their scent, and at our doorways is every delicacy— fresh or ripened— my love, I have kept them hidden for you.
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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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