Song of Solomon 6:4-7:9

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁴ You are beautiful, my true love, like Tirzah,
lovely like Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring like those great cities.^[a]
5 Turn your eyes away from me. They enchant me!

¹⁰ Who is this young woman?
She looks like the dawn.
She is beautiful like the moon,
pure like the sun,
awe-inspiring like those heavenly bodies.

¹¹ I went to the walnut grove
to look at the blossoms in the valley,
to see if the grapevine had budded
and if the pomegranates were in bloom.
¹² I did not know that I had become
like the chariots of my noble people.^[c]

¹³ Come back! Come back, young woman from Shulam!
Come back! Come back so that we may look at you!

Why do you look at me, the young woman from Shulam,
as you look at the dance of Mahanaim?

7 ^[d]How beautiful are your feet in their sandals, noble daughter!
The curves of your thighs are like ornaments,
like the work of an artist’s hands.
² Your navel is a round bowl.
May it always be filled with spiced wine.
Your waist is a bundle of wheat enclosed in lilies.
³ Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
⁴ Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are like pools in Heshbon, pools by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like a Lebanese tower facing Damascus.
⁵ You hold your head as high as Mount Carmel.
Your dangling curls are royal beauty.
Your flowing locks could hold a king captive.

⁶ How beautiful and charming you are, my love, with your elegance.
⁷ Young woman,
your figure is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁸ I thought, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters on the vine.
May the fragrance of your breath be like apples.
⁹ May your mouth taste like the best wine …

… that goes down smoothly to my beloved
and glides over the lips of those about to sleep.^[e]