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class="q1"><span class="v22_4_2"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.2" class="v22_4_2">2</span>Your teeth are as white as sheep</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_2">that have just been shorn and washed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_2">Not one of them is missing;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_2">they are all perfectly matched.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_3"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.3" class="v22_4_3">3</span>Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_3">how lovely they are when you speak.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_3">Your cheeks glow behind your veil.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_4"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.4" class="v22_4_4">4</span>Your neck is like the tower of David,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_4">round and smooth,<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.4.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_4">with a necklace like a thousand shields hung around it.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_5"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.5" class="v22_4_5">5</span>Your breasts are like gazelles,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_5">twin deer feeding among lilies.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_6"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.6" class="v22_4_6">6</span>I will stay on the hill of myrrh,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_6">the hill of incense,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_6">until the morning breezes blow</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_6">and the darkness disappears.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_7"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.7" class="v22_4_7">7</span>How beautiful you are, my love;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_7">how perfect you are!</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_8"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.8" class="v22_4_8">8</span>Come with me from the Lebanon Mountains, my bride;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_8">come with me from Lebanon.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_8">Come down from the top of Mount Amana,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_8">from Mount Senir and Mount Hermon,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_8">where the lions and leopards live.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_9"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.9" class="v22_4_9">9</span>The look in your eyes, my sweetheart and bride,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_9">and the necklace you are wearing</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_9">have stolen my heart.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_10"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.10" class="v22_4_10">10</span>Your love delights me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_10">my sweetheart and bride.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_10">Your love is better than wine;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_10">your perfume more fragrant than any spice.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_11"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.11" class="v22_4_11">11</span>The taste of honey is on your lips, my darling;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_11">your tongue is milk and honey for me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_11">Your clothing has all the fragrance of Lebanon.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_12"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.12" class="v22_4_12">12</span>My sweetheart, my bride, is a secret garden,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_12">a walled garden, a private spring;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_13"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.13" class="v22_4_13">13</span>there the plants flourish.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_13">They grow like an orchard of pomegranate trees</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_13">and bear the finest fruits.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_13">There is no lack of henna and nard,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_14"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.14" class="v22_4_14">14</span>of saffron, calamus, and cinnamon,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_14">or incense of every kind.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_14">Myrrh and aloes grow there</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_14">with all the most fragrant perfumes.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_15"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.15" class="v22_4_15">15</span>Fountains water the garden,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_15">streams of flowing water,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_15">brooks gushing down from the Lebanon Mountains.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_16"><span class="reftext" id="Song.4.16" class="v22_4_16">16</span>Wake up, North Wind.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_16">South Wind, blow on my garden;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_16">fill the air with fragrance.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_4_16">Let my lover come to his garden</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_4_16">and eat the best of its fruits.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.4: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">round and smooth; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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