⁹ I liken you, my darling, to a mare
    among Pharaoh’s chariot horses.^(A)
10 Your cheeks^(B) are beautiful with earrings,
    your neck with strings of jewels.^(C)
11 We will make you earrings of gold,
    studded with silver.

¹² While the king was at his table,
    my perfume spread its fragrance.^(D)
13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh^(E)
    resting between my breasts.
¹⁴ My beloved^(F) is to me a cluster of henna^(G) blossoms
    from the vineyards of En Gedi.^(H)

¹⁵ How beautiful^(I) you are, my darling!
    Oh, how beautiful!
    Your eyes are doves.^(J)

¹⁶ How handsome you are, my beloved!^(K)
    Oh, how charming!
    And our bed is verdant.

¹⁷ The beams of our house are cedars;^(L)
    our rafters are firs.

2 I am a rose^[b](M) of Sharon,^(N)
    a lily^(O) of the valleys.

² Like a lily among thorns
    is my darling among the young women.

⁵ Who is this coming up from the wilderness^(B)
    leaning on her beloved?

Under the apple tree I roused you;
    there your mother conceived^(C) you,
    there she who was in labor gave you birth.
⁶ Place me like a seal over your heart,
    like a seal on your arm;
for love^(D) is as strong as death,
    its jealousy^[a](E) unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
    like a mighty flame.^[b]
7 Many waters cannot quench love;
    rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
    all the wealth of one’s house for love,
    it^[c] would be utterly scorned.^(F)

⁸ We have a little sister,
    and her breasts are not yet grown.
What shall we do for our sister
    on the day she is spoken for?
⁹ If she is a wall,
    we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
    we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

¹⁰ I am a wall,
    and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
    like one bringing contentment.
¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard^(G) in Baal Hamon;
    he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
    a thousand shekels^[d](H) of silver.
¹² But my own vineyard^(I) is mine to give;
    the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
    and two hundred^[e] are for those who tend its fruit.

¹³ You who dwell in the gardens
    with friends in attendance,
    let me hear your voice!

¹⁴ Come away, my beloved,
    and be like a gazelle^(J)
or like a young stag^(K)
    on the spice-laden mountains.^(L)