Expressions of Praise
1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
# O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your thighsarelike jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2 Your navelisa rounded goblet;
It lacks no blended beverage.
Your waistisa heap of wheat
Set about with lilies.
3 Your two breastsarelike two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neckislike an ivory tower,
Your eyeslikethe pools in Heshbon
By the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your noseislike the tower of Lebanon
Which looks toward Damascus.
5 Your headcrownsyou likeMountCarmel,
And the hair of your headislike purple;
A kingisheld captive byyourtresses.
6 How fair and how pleasant you are,
O love, with your delights!
7 This stature of yours is like a palm tree,
And your breastslikeits clusters.
8 I said, “I will go up to the palm tree,
I will take hold of its branches.”
Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
The fragrance of your breath like apples,
9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine.
Thewinegoesdownsmoothly for my beloved,
Moving gently the lips of sleepers.
10 Iammy beloved’s,
# Andhis desireistoward me.
11 Come, my beloved,
Let us go forth to the field;
Let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards;
# Let ussee if the vine has budded,
Whetherthe grape blossoms are open,
Andthe pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 Themandrakes give off a fragrance,
# And at our gatesarepleasantfruits,
All manner, new and old,
Which I have laid up for you, my beloved.