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Your neck is like a tower of ivory;
    your eyes are pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
    looking out over Damascus.[a]
Your head crowns you like Carmel;[b][c]
    the flowing locks of your head are like purple tapestry;[d]
        a king is held captive in the tresses!
How beautiful you are and how pleasant,
    O loved one in the delights!

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:4 Literally “looking out over the face of Damascus”
  2. Song of Solomon 7:5 Literally “Your head is on you like the Carmel”
  3. Song of Solomon 7:5 Because of its height and fertility, Mount Carmel is often associated with royalty
  4. Song of Solomon 7:5 Literally “the purple”