Add parallel Print Page Options

    Your lips are as red as scarlet threads;
        your mouth is beautiful.
    Your cheeks rosy and round are beneath your veil,
        like the halves of a pomegranate.
    Your neck is elegant like the tower of David,
        perfectly fit stone-by-stone.
    There hang a thousand shields,
        the shields of mighty men.
    Your breasts are like two fawns,
        twin gazelles grazing in a meadow of lilies.

Read full chapter

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
    your mouth(A) is lovely.(B)
Your temples behind your veil
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(C)
Your neck is like the tower(D) of David,
    built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(E)
    all of them shields of warriors.
Your breasts(F) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle(G)
    that browse among the lilies.(H)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.