⁴ “^[a](A)You are as beautiful as ^(B)Tirzah, my darling,
As ^(C)lovely as ^(D)Jerusalem,
As ^(E)majestic as ^[b]an army with banners.
⁵ Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have overwhelmed me;
^(F)Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have leapt down from Gilead.
^6 (G)Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has ^[c]lost her young.
^7 (H)Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
Behind your veil.
⁸ There are sixty ^(I)queens and eighty concubines,
And ^[d](J)maidens without number;
⁹ She is the only one—^(K)my dove, my perfect one;
She is the only one of her mother;
She is the pure one of her who bore her.
The ^(L)daughters saw her and called her blessed,
The ^(M)queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,
¹⁰ ‘Who is this that looks down like the dawn,
As beautiful as the full ^(N)moon,
As pure ^(O)as the sun,
As ^(P)majestic as ^[e]an army with banners?’