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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Song of Solomon 4 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/songs/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Songs 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/songs/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon Admires His Bride<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Behold thee beautiful, my friend, behold thee beautiful; thine eyes doves from behind to thy veil: thy hair as a herd of goats which lay down from mount Gilead.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thy teeth as a herd of the shorn which came up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and none barren among them.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As a scarlet thread thy lips, and thy speech becoming: as a piece of pomegranate, thy temples from behind thy veil.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As the tower of David thy neck, built for the weapons; a thousand shields hung upon it, all shields of the powerful.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thy two breasts as two fawns, twins of the roe deer feeding among the lilies.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Till the day shall breathe, and the shadows fled away, I will go for myself to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of Lebanon.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All of thee beautiful, my friend, and no blemish in thee.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thou shalt come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: thou shalt go round about from the head of faith, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the dwellings of lions, from the mountains of panthers.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou didst rob me of the heart, my sister, O bride; thou didst rob me of the heart with one of thine eyes, with one necklace of thy neck.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>How beautiful were thy breasts, my sister, O bride! how good were thy breasts above wine, and the odor of thine ointments above all spices.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thy lips will drop honey droppings, O bride: honey and milk under thy tongue, and the odor of thy garments as the odor of Lebanon.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A garden shut up, my sister, O bride; a reservoir shut up, a fountain sealed.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thy sendings forth a park of pomegranates, with most precious fruits, cypresses with spikenards,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Spikenard and saffron; the reed and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all the heads of spices.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters and flowings from Lebanon.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south, blow upon my garden; its spices shall flow out. My beloved shall come to his garden, and he shall eat his most precious fruits.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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