7 “How beautiful are your feet with sandals, O prince’s daughter! The joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of a cunning workman’s hand.

² “Your navel is as a round cup that does not lack liquor. Your belly is as a heap of wheat surrounded with lilies.

³ “Your two breasts are as two twin fawns of a gazelle.

⁴ “Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is as the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

⁵ “Your head upon you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple. The king is tied in the rafters.

⁶ “How fair you are, and how pleasant you are, O my love, in pleasures!

⁷ “This, your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters.

⁸ “I said, ‘I will go up into the palm tree. I will take hold of her branches.’ Your breasts shall now be like the clusters of the vine, and the savor of your nose like apples,

⁹ “and the roof of your mouth like good wine, “which goes straight to my well-beloved and causes the lips of the ancient to speak.

¹⁰ “I am my well-beloved’s. And his desire is toward me.

¹¹ “Come, my well-beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us remain in the villages.

¹² “Let us get up early to the vines. Let us see if the vine flourishes, whether it has budded the small grapes, or where the pomegranates flourish. There I will give you my love.

¹³ “The mandrakes have given a smell. And in our gates are all sweet things, new and old. My well-beloved, I have kept them for you.”