Man

15 How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves.(A)

Woman

16 How handsome you are, my love.(B)
How delightful!
Our bed is verdant;
17 the beams of our house are cedars,
and our rafters are cypresses.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:17 Or firs, or pines

The Lover

15 Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling.
    Look at you! You are so beautiful.
        Your eyes are doves.

The Loved One

16 Look at you! You are handsome, my beloved, truly lovely.
    How lush is our couch.
17 The beams of our house are cedar,[a]
    our rafters are pine.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:17 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae; and so throughout the book