Admiration by the Bridegroom
“1How beautiful are your 2feet in sandals,O 3aprince’s daughter!The curves of your hips are like 4jewels,The work of the hands of an artist.Ch 7:2 in HebLit footstepsOr nobleman’sOr ornamentsPs 45:132 “Your navel is like a round gobletWhich never lacks mixed wine;Your belly is like a heap of wheatFenced about with lilies.3 “Your atwo breasts are like two fawns,Twins of a gazelle.Song 4:54 “Your aneck is like a tower of ivory,Your eyes like the pools in bHeshbonBy the gate of Bath-rabbim;Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,Which faces toward Damascus.Song 4:4Num 21:265 “Your head 1crowns you like aCarmel,And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads;The king is captivated by your tresses.Lit is uponIs 35:26 “How abeautiful and how delightful you are,1My love, with all your charms!Or With love among your delightsSong 1:15, 16; 4:107 “1Your stature is like a palm tree,And your breasts are like its clusters.Lit This stature of yours8 “I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree,I will take hold of its fruit stalks.’Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,And the fragrance of your 1breath like 2aapples,Lit noseOr apricotsSong 2:59 And your 1amouth like the best wine!”“2It bgoes down smoothly for my beloved,Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.Lit palateBRIDESong 5:16Prov 23:31
The Union of Love
10 “aI am my beloved’s,And his bdesire is for me.Song 2:16; 6:3Ps 45:11; Gal 2:2011 “Come, my beloved, let us go out into the 1country,Let us spend the night in the villages.Lit field12 “Let us rise early and go to the vineyards;Let us asee whether the vine has buddedAnd its blossoms have opened,And whether the pomegranates have bloomed.There I will give you my love.Song 6:1113 “The amandrakes have given forth fragrance;And over our doors are all bchoice fruits,Both new and old,Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.Gen 30:14Song 2:3; 4:13, 16; Matt 13:52