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    Your teeth are pearl white like a flock of sheep shorn,
        fresh up from a wash.
    Each perfect and paired with another;
        not one of them is lost.
    Your lips are as red as scarlet threads;
        your mouth is beautiful.
    Your cheeks rosy and round are beneath your veil,
        like the halves of a pomegranate.
    Your neck is elegant like the tower of David,
        perfectly fit stone-by-stone.
    There hang a thousand shields,
        the shields of mighty men.

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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,
    coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin;
    not one of them is alone.(A)
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
    your mouth(B) is lovely.(C)
Your temples behind your veil
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(D)
Your neck is like the tower(E) of David,
    built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(F)
    all of them shields of warriors.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.