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Your two breasts are like two fawns, yes, lovely twins.[a] Your neck is stately as an ivory tower, your eyes as limpid pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is shapely[b] like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.

“As Mount Carmel crowns the mountains, so your hair is your crown. The king is held captive in your queenly tresses.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:3 lovely twins, literally, “twins of a gazelle.”
  2. Song of Solomon 7:4 Your nose is shapely, implied.

Your breasts(A) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle.
Your neck is like an ivory tower.(B)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon(C)
    by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon(D)
    looking toward Damascus.
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.(E)
    Your hair is like royal tapestry;
    the king is held captive by its tresses.

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