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Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    twins of a gazelle.
Your neck is like an ivory tower;
    your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon[a]
    by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the Tower of Lebanon
    that faces toward Damascus.
Your head is held high like Carmel;[b]
    your flowing locks are as dark as purple,
    and a king is held captive in your tresses.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 7:5 Heshbon: a city in the Transjordan blessed with a great supply of spring water. Bath-rabbim: “Daughter of many,” so named perhaps because at that gate people went in crowds for water. Tower of Lebanon: probably the beautiful and towering mountains of Lebanon.
  2. Song of Songs 7:6 Carmel: a region on the west coast of the kingdom famous for its majesty and beauty.