Song of Solomon 4:1-7

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4 How beautiful you are, my darling!
    Oh, you are beautiful!
Your eyes behind your veil [^Cimparting a sense of mystery] are like doves [1:15].
    Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead [^Ca beautiful site in central Transjordan near the Jabbok river; the image indicates lush, flowing hair].
² Your teeth are like ·newly [^La flock of] sheared sheep
    just coming from ·their bath [a washing; ^Cwhite].
Each one has a twin,
    and none of them is missing [^Ca compliment in an age before dentistry].
³ Your lips are like ·red silk [a scarlet] thread,
    and your mouth is ·lovely [or desirable].
Your ·cheeks [or temple] behind your veil
    are like slices of a pomegranate [^Creddish orange].
⁴ Your neck is like David’s tower [^Cdignified; strong],
    built ·with rows of stones [in courses].
A thousand shields hang on its walls [^Ca necklace that enhances her beauty];
    each shield belongs to a ·strong soldier [hero].
⁵ Your breasts are like two fawns,
    like twins of a gazelle,
    ·feeding [grazing] among the lilies.
⁶ Until the day dawns
    and the shadows ·disappear [flee],
I will go to that mountain of myrrh
    and to that hill of ·incense [frankincense; ^Creferring to the woman].
⁷ My darling, everything about you is beautiful,
    and ·there is nothing at all wrong with you [you have no blemish].