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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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/songs/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>You are beautiful, my darling,</p><p class="line2">beautiful beyond words.</p><p class="line1">Your eyes are like doves</p><p class="line2">behind your veil.</p><p class="line1">Your hair falls in waves,</p><p class="line2">like a flock of goats winding down the slopes 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 as white as sheep,</p><p class="line2">recently shorn and freshly washed.</p><p class="line1">Your smile is flawless,</p><p class="line2">each tooth matched with its twin.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></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 scarlet ribbon;</p><p class="line2">your mouth is inviting.</p><p class="line1">Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates</p><p class="line2">behind your veil.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your neck is as beautiful as the tower of David,</p><p class="line2">jeweled with the shields of a thousand heroes.</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">twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Before the dawn breezes blow</p><p class="line2">and the night shadows flee,</p><p class="line1">I will hurry to the mountain of myrrh</p><p class="line2">and to the hill of frankincense.</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">beautiful in every way.</p><p class="b"/><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">Come down<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> from Mount Amana,</p><p class="line2">from the peaks of Senir and Hermon,</p><p class="line1">where the lions have their dens</p><p class="line2">and leopards live among the hills.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You have captured my heart,</p><p class="line2">my treasure,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> my bride.</p><p class="line1">You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes,</p><p class="line2">with a single 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>Your love delights me,</p><p class="line2">my treasure, my bride.</p><p class="line1">Your love is better than wine,</p><p class="line2">your perfume more fragrant than spices.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Your lips are as sweet as nectar, my bride.</p><p class="line2">Honey and milk are under your tongue.</p><p class="line1">Your clothes are scented</p><p class="line2">like the cedars of Lebanon.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You are my private garden, my treasure, my bride,</p><p class="line2">a secluded spring, a hidden fountain.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Your thighs shelter a paradise of pomegranates</p><p class="line2">with rare spices—</p><p class="line1">henna with 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">fragrant calamus and cinnamon,</p><p class="line1">with all the trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloes,</p><p class="line2">and every other lovely spice.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You are a garden fountain,</p><p class="line2">a well of fresh water</p><p class="line2">streaming down from Lebanon’s mountains. </p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><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">Rise up, south wind!</p><p class="line1">Blow on my garden</p><p class="line2">and spread its fragrance all around.</p><p class="line1">Come into your garden, my love;</p><p class="line2">taste its finest fruits.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Not one is missing; each has a twin.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Look down.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">my sister;</span><span class="ft"> 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