Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
English Standard Version ESV
1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess! The curves of your thighs are like jewelry, the handiwork of a master.
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How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl; it never lacks mixed wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat surrounded by 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 breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
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Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking 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, which looks toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple cloth- a king could be held captive in your 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 How beautiful you are and how pleasant, [my] love, with such delights!
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How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters [of fruit].
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Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I said, "I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like clusters of grapes, and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.
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I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 Your mouth is like fine wine- flowing smoothly for my love gliding past my lips and teeth!
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and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.
10 I belong to my love, and his desire is for me.
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I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my love, let's go to the field; let's spend the night among the henna blossoms.
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Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;
12 Let's go early to the vineyards; let's see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
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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 a fragrance, and at our doors is every delicacy- new as well as old. I have treasured them up for you, my love.
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The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside 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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