Song 4 | ABEn | STEP | Behold, you are fair my dear one; behold, you are fair. Your eyes -- doves outside your veil. Your head of hair is as herds of goats, the ones who were revealed from Gilead.

‏ Song of Solomon 4

CHAPTER 4 The Bridegroom Enthralled with the Bride

1 Behold, you are fair my dear one; behold, you are fair. Your eyes -- doves outside your veil. Your head of hair is as herds of goats, the ones who were revealed from Gilead. 2 Your teeth are as herds of the ones being sheared, the ones which ascended from the bath, all bearing twins, and [²a childless one ¹there is not] among them. 3 [²are as ⁴string ³a scarlet ¹Your lips], and your speech beautiful. [²are as ³a rind ⁴of the ⁵pomegranate ¹your cheeks], outside your veil. 4 [²is as ³the tower ⁴of David ¹Your neck], the tower having been built for the armory; a thousand shields hang upon it, all the arrows of the mighty. 5 [²two ³breasts ¹Your] are as two [²fawns ¹twin] of the doe, the ones feeding among the lilies. 6 Until of which time [³should refresh ¹the ²day], and [³move away ¹the ²shadows], I will go myself to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. 7 Entirely fare is my dear one, and [²blemish ¹there is no] in you. 8 Come from Lebanon, O bride, come from Lebanon. You shall come and go through from the top of Trust, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the lairs of lions, from the mountains of leopards. 9 You took my heart, my sister, O bride; you took my heart with one of your eyes, with one garland of your neck. 10 How [²were beautified ¹your breasts] my sister, O bride. How [²were beautified ¹your breasts] above wine, and the scent of your garments above all aromatics. 11 [³honeycomb ²drop ¹Your lips], O bride. Honey and milk are under your tongue; and the scent of your garments is as the scent of frankincense. 12 [²is as a garden ³being locked ¹My sister], O bride; a spring having a seal upon it. 13 Your dowries are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of fruit trees; camphor with spikenards. 14 Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh, aloes, with all of the foremost perfumes. 15 A spring of gardens; a well of water living, and gurgling from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind! And come, O south! and refresh my garden, and let flow my aromatics!