Chapter 4
1 Behold , you are beautiful , my love . Behold , you are beautiful . Your eyes are like doves behind your veil . Your hair is as a flock of goats , that descend from Mount Gilead .
2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock , which have come up from the washing , where every one of them has twins . None is bereaved amongst them .
3 Your lips are like scarlet thread . Your mouth is lovely . Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil .
4 Your neck is like David ’s tower built for an armoury , on which a thousand shields hang , all the shields of the mighty men .
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed amongst the lilies .
6 Until the day is cool , and the shadows flee away , I will go to the mountain of myrrh , to the hill of frankincense .
7 You are all beautiful , my love . There is no spot in you .
8 Come with me from Lebanon , my bride , with me from Lebanon . Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon , from the lions’ dens , from the mountains of the leopards .
9 You have ravished my heart , my sister, my bride . You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes , with one chain of your neck .
10 How beautiful is your love , my sister, my bride ! How much better is your love than wine , the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices !
11 Your lips , my bride , drip like the honeycomb . Honey and milk are under your tongue . The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon .
12 My sister, my bride , is a locked up garden ; a locked up spring , a sealed fountain .
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates , with precious fruits , henna with spikenard plants ,
14 spikenard and saffron , calamus and cinnamon , with every kind of incense tree ; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices ,
15 a fountain of gardens , a well of living waters , flowing streams from Lebanon . Beloved
16 Awake , north wind , and come, you south ! Blow on my garden , that its spices may flow out . Let my beloved come into his garden , and taste his precious fruits .