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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</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>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>How beautiful you are, my love, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are those of a dove, except for what is hidden within. Your hair is like flocks of goats, which ascend along the mountain of Gilead.</font><p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Your teeth are like flocks of shorn sheep, which ascend from the washing, each one with its identical twin, and not one among them is barren.</font><p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your eloquence is sweetness. Like a piece of pomegranate, so are your cheeks, except for what is hidden within.</font><p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Your neck is like the tower of David, which was built with ramparts: a thousand shields are hanging from it, all the armor of the strong.</font><p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Your two breasts are like two young does, twins that pasture among the lilies.</font><p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Until the day rises and the shadows decline, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.</font><p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>You are totally beautiful, my love, and there is no blemish in you.</font><p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Advance from Lebanon, my spouse, advance from Lebanon, advance. You shall be crowned at the head of Amana, near the summit of Senir and Hermon, by the dens of lions, by the mountains of leopards.</font><p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>You have wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse. You have wounded my heart with one look of your eyes, and with one lock of hair on your neck.</font><p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>How beautiful are your breasts, my sister, my spouse! Your breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the fragrance of your ointments is above all aromatic oils.</font><p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Your lips, my spouse, are a dripping honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue. And the fragrance of your garments is like the odor of frankincense.</font><p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>An enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse: an enclosed garden, a sealed fountain.</font><p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>You send forth a paradise of pomegranates along with the fruits of the orchard: Cypress grapes, with aromatic oil;</font><p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>aromatic oil and saffron; sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Lebanon; myrrh and aloe, with all the best ointments.</font><p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>The fountain of the gardens is a well of living waters, which flow forcefully from Lebanon.</font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=#CC0000>Rise up, north wind, and advance, south wind. Send a breeze through my garden, and carry its aromatic scents.</font><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>