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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/songs/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">He</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, you are beautiful, my love,</span><br /><span class="indent">behold, you are beautiful!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your eyes are doves</span><br /><span class="indent">behind your veil.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your hair is like a flock of goats</span><br /><span class="indent">leaping down the slopes of Gilead.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes</span><br /><span class="indent">that have come up from the washing,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">all of which bear twins,</span><br /><span class="indent">and not one among them has lost its young.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your lips are like a scarlet thread,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your mouth is lovely.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate</span><br /><span class="indent">behind your veil.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your neck is like the tower of David,</span><br /><span class="indent">built in rows of stone;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">on it hang a thousand shields,</span><br /><span class="indent">all of them shields of warriors.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your two breasts are like two fawns,</span><br /><span class="indent">twins of a gazelle,</span><br /><span class="indent">that graze among the lilies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Until the day breathes</span><br /><span class="indent">and the shadows flee,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will go away to the mountain of myrrh</span><br /><span class="indent">and the hill of frankincense.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You are altogether beautiful, my love;</span><br /><span class="indent">there is no flaw in you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;</span><br /><span class="indent">come with me from Lebanon.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Depart<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Look">b</a></sup></span> from the peak of Amana,</span><br /><span class="indent">from the peak of Senir and Hermon,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">from the dens of lions,</span><br /><span class="indent">from the mountains of leopards.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;</span><br /><span class="indent">you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes,</span><br /><span class="indent">with one jewel of your necklace.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!</span><br /><span class="indent">How much better is your love than wine,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your lips drip nectar, my bride;</span><br /><span class="indent">honey and milk are under your tongue;</span><br /><span class="indent">the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">A garden locked is my sister, my bride,</span><br /><span class="indent">a spring locked, a fountain sealed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates</span><br /><span class="indent">with all choicest fruits,</span><br /><span class="indent">henna with nard,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,</span><br /><span class="indent">with all trees of frankincense,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">myrrh and aloes,</span><br /><span class="indent">with all choice spices—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">a garden fountain, a well of living water,</span><br /><span class="indent">and flowing streams from Lebanon.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Awake, O north wind,</span><br /><span class="indent">and come, O south wind!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Blow upon my garden,</span><br /><span class="indent">let its spices flow.</span></p><p class="heading">Together in the Garden of Love</p><span class="block-indent"> <subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">Let my beloved come to his garden,</span><br /><span class="indent">and eat its choicest fruits.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>Look</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) 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