Admiration by the Groom
“1How beautiful are your feet in sandals,2aPrince’s daughter!The curves of your hips are like jewels,The work of the hands of an artist.Ch 7:2 in HebOr Nobleman’sPs 45:132 “Your navel is like a round gobletThat never lacks mixed wine;Your belly is like a heap of wheat,1Surrounded with lilies.Lit Fenced around3 “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 looks toward Damascus.Song 4:4Num 21:265 “Your head 1crowns you like aCarmel,And the flowing hair of your head is 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 delights!Or With love among your charmsSong 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 grasp its fruit stalks.’Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,And the fragrance of your 1breath like aapples,Lit noseSong 2:59 And your 1amouth like the best wine!”The Bride“It bgoes down smoothly for my beloved,Flowing gently through the lips of those who are asleep.Lit palateSong 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’s go out to the 1country,Let’s spend the night in the villages.Lit field12 “Let’s rise early and go to the vineyards;Let’s asee whether the vine has grownAnd its buds 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 bdelicious fruits,New as well as old,Which I have saved for you, my beloved.Gen 30:14Song 2:3; 4:13, 16; Matt 13:52