4 How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Behind your veil,
your eyes are doves.^(A)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down Mount Gilead.^(B)
2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep
coming up from washing,
each one bearing twins,
and none has lost its young.^[a](C)
3 Your lips are like a scarlet cord,^(D)
and your mouth^[b] is lovely.
Behind your veil,
your brow^[c] is like a slice of pomegranate.^(E)
4 Your neck is like the tower of David,^(F)
constructed in layers.
A thousand shields are hung on it—
all of them shields of warriors.
⁵ Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,^(G) that feed among the lilies.
⁶ Until the day breaks^[d]
and the shadows flee,^(H)
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.^(I)
7 You are absolutely beautiful,^(J) my darling;
there is no imperfection in you.

4 How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Behind your veil,
your eyes are doves.^(A)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down Mount Gilead.^(B)
2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep
coming up from washing,
each one bearing twins,
and none has lost its young.^[a](C)
3 Your lips are like a scarlet cord,^(D)
and your mouth^[b] is lovely.
Behind your veil,
your brow^[c] is like a slice of pomegranate.^(E)
4 Your neck is like the tower of David,^(F)
constructed in layers.
A thousand shields are hung on it—
all of them shields of warriors.
⁵ Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,^(G) that feed among the lilies.
⁶ Until the day breaks^[d]
and the shadows flee,^(H)
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.^(I)
7 You are absolutely beautiful,^(J) my darling;
there is no imperfection in you.