Song of Solomon 5:9-6:3

Good News Translation

⁹ Most beautiful of women,
    is your lover different from everyone else?
What is there so wonderful about him
    that we should give you our promise?

¹⁰ My lover is handsome and strong;
    he is one in ten thousand.
¹¹ His face is bronzed and smooth;
    his hair is wavy,
    black as a raven.
¹² His eyes are as beautiful as doves by a flowing brook,
    doves washed in milk and standing by the stream.^[a]
13 His cheeks are as lovely as a garden
    that is full of herbs and spices.
His lips are like lilies,
    wet with liquid myrrh.
¹⁴ His hands are well-formed,
    and he wears rings set with gems.
His body is like smooth ivory,^[b]
    with sapphires set in it.
¹⁵ His thighs are columns of alabaster
    set in sockets of gold.
He is majestic, like the Lebanon Mountains
    with their towering cedars.
¹⁶ His mouth is sweet to kiss;
    everything about him enchants me.
This is what my lover is like,
    women of Jerusalem.

² My lover has gone to his garden,
    where the balsam trees grow.
He is feeding his flock in the garden
    and gathering lilies.
³ My lover is mine, and I am his;
    he feeds his flock among the lilies.