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Your teeth are very white like a group of sheep.
    They are like sheep after someone has cut off their dirty wool
    and they are coming from the pool of water.
Each tooth is one of a pair.
    Not one of them is alone.
Your lips are like bright red strings.
    Your mouth is lovely.
The sides of your face are beautiful,
    like the halves of a pomegranate.
I see them through your veil.[a]
Your neck is like the great tower of King David.[b]
    It is round and strong.
Your necklace is like the shields of 1,000 brave soldiers
    that hang from the stones of the tower.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:3 The woman may be wearing a veil. This may show that she has just married the man. But the word veil may mean only that her husband does not know her very well yet.
  2. 4:4 King David was Solomon's father.