Song of Songs 4:1-8

1 My dear friend, how beautiful you are!

Yes, you are very beautiful!

Your eyes behind your veil are like doves.

Your hair is like a group of goats

that are coming down from Mount Gilead.

2 Your teeth are very white like a group of sheep.

They are like sheep after someone has cut off their dirty wool

and they are coming from the pool of water.

Each tooth is one of a pair.

Not one of them is alone.

3 Your lips are like bright red strings.

Your mouth is lovely.

The sides of your face are beautiful,

like the halves of a pomegranate.

I see them through your veil.

4 Your neck is like the great tower of King David.

It is round and strong.

Your necklace is like the shields of 1,000 brave soldiers

that hang from the stones of the tower.

5 Your breasts are perfect,

like two young gazelles that are twins.

They feed themselves among the lilies.

6 I will go to the mountain of myrrh

and the hill of frankincense.

I will stay among them until the dawn comes

and the shadows go away.

7 You are completely beautiful, my dear friend.

Your body is perfect in every way.

8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride.

Yes, come with me from Lebanon.

Come down from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir.

Come down from the highest part of Hermon.

Come away from those mountains where lions live,

and where there are leopards.