“1How beautiful are your 2feet in sandals,O anoble’s daughter!The curves of your thighs are like ornaments,The work of the hands of an artist.Ch 7:2 in HebLit footstepsPs 45:132 “Your navel is like a round basinWhich never lacks mixed wine;Your belly is like a heap of wheatEncircled 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 pleasant you are,1My love, with all your pleasures!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 seize 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 1fields,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 flourishedAnd 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 treasured up for you, my beloved.Gen 30:14Song 2:3; 4:13, 16; Matt 13:52