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href="../songs/3.htm" title="Song of Solomon 3">◄</a> Song of Solomon 4 <a href="../songs/5.htm" title="Song of Solomon 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/songs/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="speech"><p class="speaker">He</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>How beautiful you are, my darling!</p><p class="line2">Oh, how beautiful!</p><p class="line2">Your eyes behind your veil are doves.</p><p class="line1">Your hair is like a flock of goats</p><p class="line2">descending from the hills of Gilead.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,</p><p class="line2">coming up from the washing.</p><p class="line1">Each has its twin;</p><p class="line2">not one of them is alone.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;</p><p class="line2">your mouth is lovely.</p><p class="line1">Your temples behind your veil</p><p class="line2">are like the halves of a pomegranate.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your neck is like the tower of David,</p><p class="line2">built with courses of stone <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.">a</a></sup></span> ;</p><p class="line1">on it hang a thousand shields,</p><p class="line2">all of them shields of warriors.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your breasts are like two fawns,</p><p class="line2">like twin fawns of a gazelle</p><p class="line2">that browse among the lilies.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Until the day breaks</p><p class="line2">and the shadows flee,</p><p class="line1">I will go to the mountain of myrrh</p><p class="line2">and to the hill of incense.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You are altogether beautiful, my darling;</p><p class="line2">there is no flaw in you.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,</p><p class="line2">come with me from Lebanon.</p><p class="line1">Descend from the crest of Amana,</p><p class="line2">from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon,</p><p class="line1">from the lions’ dens</p><p class="line2">and the mountain haunts of leopards.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;</p><p class="line2">you have stolen my heart</p><p class="line1">with one glance of your eyes,</p><p class="line2">with one jewel of your necklace.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!</p><p class="line2">How much more pleasing is your love than wine,</p><p class="line1">and the fragrance of your perfume</p><p class="line2">more than any spice!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;</p><p class="line2">milk and honey are under your tongue.</p><p class="line1">The fragrance of your garments</p><p class="line2">is like the fragrance of Lebanon.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride;</p><p class="line2">you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates</p><p class="line2">with choice fruits,</p><p class="line2">with henna and nard,</p> <p class="line2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>nard and saffron,</p><p class="line2">calamus and cinnamon,</p><p class="line2">with every kind of incense tree,</p><p class="line2">with myrrh and aloes</p><p class="line2">and all the finest spices.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You are <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or I am (spoken by She)">b</a></sup></span> a garden fountain,</p><p class="line2">a well of flowing water</p><p class="line2">streaming down from Lebanon.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">She</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Awake, north wind,</p><p class="line2">and come, south wind!</p><p class="line1">Blow on my garden,</p><p class="line2">that its fragrance may spread everywhere.</p><p class="line1">Let my beloved come into his garden</p><p class="line2">and taste its choice fruits.</p></div></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span><br><span 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