Song of Songs 3:6-4:7

New International Version

⁶Who is this coming up from the wilderness^(A)
    like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh^(B) and incense
    made from all the spices^(C) of the merchant?
⁷Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
    escorted by sixty warriors,^(D)
    the noblest of Israel,
⁸all of them wearing the sword,
    all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
    prepared for the terrors of the night.^(E)
⁹King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
    he made it of wood from Lebanon.
¹⁰Its posts he made of silver,
    its base of gold.
Its seat was upholstered with purple,
    its interior inlaid with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, ¹¹come out,
    and look, you daughters of Zion.^(F)
Look^[a] on King Solomon wearing a crown,
    the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
    the day his heart rejoiced.^(G)

He

4 How beautiful you are, my darling!
    Oh, how beautiful!
    Your eyes behind your veil^(H) are doves.^(I)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
    descending from the hills of Gilead.^(J)
²Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,
    coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin;
    not one of them is alone.^(K)
³Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
    your mouth^(L) is lovely.^(M)
Your temples behind your veil
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.^(N)
⁴Your neck is like the tower^(O) of David,
    built with courses of stone^[b];
on it hang a thousand shields,^(P)
    all of them shields of warriors.
⁵Your breasts^(Q) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle^(R)
    that browse among the lilies.^(S)
⁶Until the day breaks
    and the shadows flee,^(T)
I will go to the mountain of myrrh^(U)
    and to the hill of incense.
⁷You are altogether beautiful,^(V) my darling;
    there is no flaw^(W) in you.

Footnotes

Song of Songs 3:11 Or interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / ¹¹Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look
Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.