¹ How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skilful workman.

² Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.¹

1. liquor: Heb. mixture

³ Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

⁴ Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thy eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

⁵ Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive by her locks of hair.¹²

1. Carmel: or, crimson
2. held: Heb. bound

⁶ How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

⁷ This thy stature is like a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes .

⁸ I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its boughs: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the fragrance of thy breath like apples;

⁹ And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.¹²

1. sweetly: Heb. straightly
2. of those...: or, of the ancient

¹⁰ I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

¹¹ Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

¹² Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourisheth, whether the tender grape appeareth, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.¹

1. appear: Heb. open

¹³ The mandrakes give a fragrance, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.