Song of Solomon 5:8-16

Common English Bible

⁸ I place you under oath, daughters of Jerusalem:
If you find my love, what should you tell him?
        That I’m weak with love!

⁹ How is your lover different from any other lover,
        you who are the most beautiful of women?
How is your lover different from any other lover,
        that you make us swear a solemn pledge?

¹⁰ My lover is radiant and ruddy;
        he stands out among ten thousand!
¹¹ His head is finest gold;
        his wavy hair, black as a raven.
¹² His eyes are like doves
        by channels of water.
They are bathing in milk,
        sitting by brimming pools.
¹³ His cheeks are like fragrant plantings,
        towers of spices.
        His lips are lilies
            dripping liquid myrrh.
¹⁴ His arms are gold cylinders
        studded with jewels.
His belly is smooth ivory
        encrusted with sapphires.
¹⁵ His thighs are pillars of whitest stone
        set on pedestals of gold.
His appearance—like Lebanon,
        stately, like the cedars.
¹⁶ His mouth is everything sweet,
        every bit of him desirable.