Love’s delight in the loved one
Bridegroom
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📚How beautiful✭ you are, my love! How beautiful you are!
You have doves✭’ eyes behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats✭
that appears from mount Gilead.
2 📚✭Your teeth are like a flock
of sheep just shorn,
which come up from the washing,
each of which bears twins,
and none of them is barren.
3 📚Your lips are like a strip of scarlet,
and your mouth is lovely.
Your temples are like a piece of a
pomegranate behind your veil.
4 📚✭Your neck is like the tower of David
built as an armoury,
where hang a thousand shields,
all shields of mighty men.
5 📚Your two breasts are like two fawns
that are twins,
which feed among the lilies.
6 📚Until the day breaks and the shadows
flee away,
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
and to the hill of frankincense.
7 📚You are altogether beautiful, my love.
There is no blemish✭ in you.
8 📚✭Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
come with me from Lebanon.
Look from the top of Amana,
from the top of Shenir and Hermon,
from the lions’ dens,
from the mountains of the leopards.
9 📚✭You have ravished my heart, my sister✭,
my bride.
You have ravished my heart with one
glance of your eyes,
with one strand of your necklace.
10 📚✭How beautiful is your love, my sister,
my bride!
How much better is your love than wine!
And the fragrance of your oils than
all spices!
11 📚✭Your lips, O my bride, drip like the honeycomb.
Honey and milk are under your tongue,
and the fragrance of your garments
is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
12 📚✭A garden locked up is my sister, my bride;
a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
13 📚Your plants are an orchard of
pomegranates, with choice fruits,
henna with spikenard,
14 📚Spikenard and saffron, calamus and
cinnamon,
with all the trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
15 📚✭You are a garden fountain, a well of
living waters,
and streams from Lebanon.
16 📚✭Awake, O north wind, and come,
you south wind! Blow on my garden
so that the fragrance of its spices
may spread out.
Bride
Let my beloved✭ come into his garden,
and eat his choice fruits.