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11 Your lips are a honeycomb;
milk and honey
    flow from your tongue.
Your dress has the aroma
    of cedar trees from Lebanon.

12 My bride, my very own,
you are a garden, a fountain
    closed off to all others.
13 Your arms[a] are vines,
covered with delicious fruits
    and all sorts of spices—
henna, nard,

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Footnotes

  1. 4.13 Your arms: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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