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Song of Songs 2

2 I am like an insignificant flower on the plains,

like an insignificant lily growing in the valleys.

The

2 Among all the other young women,

you, my dear one, are like a lily growing among thorns!

The

3 Compared to other men, you, the one whom I love, are like an apple tree that produces delicious fruit and grows in the forest among common trees.

You are like a tree whose shade protects me from the sun,

and your being close to me is delightful, like eating sweet fruit.

4 I want you to lead me to the place where we can make love,

and it is evident that you love me very much.

The

5 Strengthen and refresh me with fruit,

because the way you love me makes me feel lovesick.

The

6 The man whom I love has placed his left arm under my head,

and he holds me close with his right arm.

The

7 You young women of Jerusalem,

I want you to solemnly promise me, while the female gazelles and female deer are listening,

that you will not cause people to love romantically

until it is the right time.

The

8 Listen! Look! The man whom I love is coming.

It is as though he is leaping over the mountains

and skipping over the hills,

9 like a gazelle or a young male deer.

Look! There he is! He is standing outside the wall of our house,

peering in through the window,

and looking intently through the wooden strips inside the window frame.

10 The man whom I love spoke to me and said,

“My dear one, get up;

my beautiful one, come with me!

11 Look, the cold season has ended;

the rain has stopped.

12 The flowers are blooming throughout the country.

It is now time to sing;

we hear the doves cooing throughout our land.

13 There are new figs on the fig trees,

and there are blossoms on the grapevines,

and their fragrance fills the air.

My dear one, get up;

my beautiful one, come with me!

14 You are like a dove that is hiding far from me in an opening in the rocky cliff.

Allow me to see your form,

and allow me to hear your voice,

because your voice sounds sweet,

and your form is comely.”

The

15 There are harmful things that are like little foxes that ruin vineyards;

do not allow these things to ruin our growing relationship.

16 You whom I love, you are mine, and I am yours.

You have pleasure when you kiss my lips,

as a gazelle does when eating among the lilies.

17 You whom I love, come and be like a gazelle or a young male deer on the mountains in Bether,

until the evening breeze blows and the sun sets.

3 The woman speaking to herself

 At night while I lay on my bed,

I searched for the man whom I love.

I searched for him,

but could not find him.

2 So I said to myself,

“I will get up now and walk around the city,

through the streets and plazas,

to search for the man whom I love.”

So I got up and went out to search for him,

but I could not find him.

3 The city watchmen saw me

while they were walking around the city.

I asked them,

“Have you seen the man whom I love?”

4 As soon as I walked past them,

I found the man whom I love.

I clung to him and would not release my hold on him

until I brought him to my mother’s house,

to the bedroom of my mother who had conceived me.

The

5 You young women of Jerusalem,

I want you to solemnly promise me, while the female gazelles and female deer are listening,

that you will not cause people to love romantically

until it is the right time.

The

6 Look! See what is coming up from the dry and uninhabited area.

Look at what is stirring up dust like clouds of smoke,

and like billows of smoke from burning myrrh and incense,

which are from the fragrant powders imported by traveling traders!

7 Look! Solomon has sent his portable royal chair,

and it is surrounded by 60 bodyguards

chosen from the greatest soldiers in Israel.

8 They all have swords,

and they all know how to use them.

Each one has his sword strapped to his side

and is prepared to defend against dangers that might occur during the night.

9 King Solomon commanded his servants to make that royal portable chair for him;

it was made with wood from Lebanon.

10 The canopy that covered it was held up by posts made with silver,

and the base of the palanquin was made with gold.

The seat was covered with purple cloth,

and the inside of the palanquin was lovingly decorated by the women of Jerusalem.

11 You young women of Jerusalem,

come and look at King Solomon

wearing the headdress that his mother put on his head

on the day when he was married,

on the day when he was very happy.

4 The man speaking to the woman he loves

 My dear one, you are beautiful,

you are very beautiful!

Beneath your veil, your eyes are as gentle and as beautiful as doves.

Your long black hair moves from side to side like a flock of black goats

moving down the slopes of Mount Gilead.

2 Your teeth are very white,

white like a flock of sheep whose wool people have just cut off

and which have just come up from washing in a stream.

You have all of your teeth on both sides of your mouth;

none of them is missing.

3 Your lips are the color of bright red thread,

and your mouth is beautiful.

Beneath your veil,

your cheeks are round and rosy like the halves of a pomegranate.

4 Your long neck is beautiful like the tower of King David

that was built using layers of stone.

The beauty of your jeweled neck is like a thousand shields hanging on the walls of a tower;

like the beauty of a thousand warrior’s shields hanging from a tower.

5 Your two breasts are as beautiful as two young twin gazelles

that eat grass among lilies.

6 Until the evening breeze blows

and the sun sets,

I will go to your breasts

because they are like two hills that smell like pleasant spices.

7 My dear one, you are completely beautiful;

your body is perfectly formed and has no blemish!

8 Come back to me, my bride. It is as though you are in Lebanon

far away, where I cannot reach you.

Come back to me.

It is as though you are inaccessible on the top of Mount Hermon

or the nearby peaks, where I cannot go to you.

Come from the mountains, where the lions have their dens

and where the leopards live.

9 You who are as dear to me as a sister, my bride,

by only once quickly looking at me with your eyes, and by one strand of jewels in your necklace,

you have obtained my full affection.

10 You who are as dear to me as a sister, my bride,

your love for me is delightful!

It is more delightful than wine!

The fragrance of your perfume

is more pleasing than any spice!

11 When you kiss me, my bride, it is as delightful as eating honey.

Your kisses are as sweet as milk mixed with honey.

The aroma of your clothes

is like the aroma of cedar trees in Lebanon.

12 You who are as dear to me as a sister, my bride, you are like a garden that the owner keeps locked

so that other men cannot enter it;

you are like a spring or a fountain that is covered

so that others may not drink from it.

13 You are like an orchard of pomegranate trees

full of delicious fruit

and plenty of plants that produce henna and nard spices,

14 and saffron and calamus and cinnamon

and many other kinds of incense,

myrrh and aloes,

and many other fine spices.

15 You are like a spring in a garden,

like a well of fresh-flowing water,

and like streams that flow down from the mountains of Lebanon.

The

16 I want the north wind and the south wind to come

and blow on me,

so that the fragrance of my body will spread through the air and attract the man I love.

You whom I love, I am like your garden.

I want you to come and enjoy my body,

like someone comes into a garden and enjoys eating the delicious fruit that grows there.

5 The man speaking to the woman he loves

 You who are as dear to me as a sister, my bride,

I am ready to go away with you now and enjoy making love with you.

It will be delightful, delightful like when I gather my myrrh with my other spices,

as wonderful as eating my honey and honeycomb,

and as enjoyable as drinking my wine with milk.

The

Friends, enjoy making love;

fully enjoy all that you do with each other.

The

2 I was asleep, and I had a dream.

In it I heard the man I love knocking at the door.

He said, “You who are as dear to me as a sister, my dear one, you who are like a dove, my flawless one.

Open the door for me

because my hair is wet from the dew,

from the mist that has fallen during the night.”

3 But I had already taken my robe off;

I did not want to put it on again to open the door.

I had already washed my feet;

so I did not want them to get dirty again by answering the door.

4 The man I love put his hand through the opening in the door,

and I was thrilled in my inner being that he was there.

5 I got up to open the door for the man I love,

but first I put much myrrh on my hands.

The liquid myrrh was dripping from my fingers

while I unlatched the bolt.

6 I opened the door for the man I love,

but he had left.

He had turned away and was gone!

I greatly despaired because he was not there.

I searched for him, but I could not find him.

I called out for him, but he did not answer.

7 The city watchmen saw me while they were walking around the city.

They struck me and bruised me

because they thought I was a prostitute;

those watchmen who were guarding the city walls took my robe that was on me.

8 You young women of Jerusalem,

if you see the man I love, what will you tell him?

I want you to solemnly promise me that if you see him,

you will tell him that the way he loves me makes me feel lovesick.

The

9 You who are the most beautiful of all the women,

why do you think that the man you love is better than other men?

In what way is he better than other men

that would cause you to want us to solemnly promise that we will tell him that?

The

10 It is because the man I love is handsome and healthy,

outstanding among an uncountable number of other men.

11 His face is beautiful and gleams like gold; he is as precious as purest gold.

His hair is wavy

and as black as a raven.

12 His eyes are as gentle and beautiful as doves

which are beside streams.

His eyes are as white as white doves

which are sitting beside pools of water.

13 His cheeks are like a garden where spices grow

and like towers where spices are kept.

His lips are like lilies

that have myrrh dripping from them.

14 His arms are like round gold rods,

that are decorated with precious stones.

His abdomen is like ivory

that is decorated with sapphires.

15 His legs are like alabaster columns

that are set in bases made of pure gold.

He is majestic, like the mountains of Lebanon.

He is tall and strong and outstanding like the cedar trees that grow there.

16 His kisses are very sweet;

he is completely attractive.

You young women of Jerusalem,

this is what the man I love, who is my friend, is like, and this is why he is better than all other men.

6 The women of Jerusalem speaking to the woman

 You who are the most beautiful of the women,

where has the man you love gone?

Tell us which direction he went,

and we will go with you to search for him.

The

2 The man who I love has come to me.

I am like his garden where pleasant spices grow.

He has come to enjoy my body as a gazelle enjoys grazing in a garden and as a person enjoys picking lilies. 3 I belong to the man I love, and he belongs to me.

He feels pleasure when he is near me,

as a gazelle does when eating among lilies.

The

4 My dear one, you are beautiful.

You are as beautiful as the city of Tirzah and as lovely as the city of Jerusalem.

You are as exciting and majestic to look at as an army with banners.

5 Stop looking at me like that,

because your eyes excite me very much.

Your long black hair moves from side to side like a flock of black goats

moving down the slopes of Mount Gilead.

6 Your teeth are very white,

white like a flock of sheep

that has just come up from being washed in a stream.

You have all of your teeth on both sides of your mouth;

none of them is missing.

7 Beneath your veil,

your cheeks are round and rosy like the halves of a pomegranate.

8 Even if a king had 60 queens and 80 concubines

and more young women in his court than anyone can count,

9 none of them would be as special as she is. She is like a dove; she is flawless.

Her mother considers her to be very special;

she is her mother’s favorite child.

When the young women of the king’s court see her, they say that she is fortunate,

and the queens and concubines praise her.

10 Look at this woman who appears like the dawn,

who is as beautiful to look at as the moon,

who is radiant like the sun,

who is as exciting and majestic to look at as an army with banners!

11 I went down to the walnut tree orchard

to look at the new plants that were growing in the valley.

I wanted to see if the grapevines had budded

and if the pomegranate trees were blooming.

12 All of a sudden

I imagined that I was among the chariots of my noble people.

The

13 Come back to us, beautiful woman from Shulam,

come back to us, in order that we may see you!

The

Why do you want to look at the beautiful woman from Shulam,

as if she were a dancer who dances to entertain armies?

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