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1. Your feet are beautiful in sandals, you daughter of a prince. Your round thighs are like jewels shaped by an artist.
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1. How H4100 beautiful H3302 are thy feet H6471 with shoes H5275 , O prince H5081 's daughter H1323 ! the joints H2542 of thy thighs H3409 are like H3644 jewels H2481 , the work H4639 of the hands H3027 of a cunning workman H542 .
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2. Your navel is like a round drinking cup always filled with wine. Your stomach is like a pile of wheat surrounded with lilies.
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2. Thy navel H8326 is like a round H5469 goblet H101 , which wanteth H2637 not H408 liquor H4197 : thy belly H990 is like a heap H6194 of wheat H2406 set about H5473 with lilies H7799 .
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3. Your breasts are like two fawns, like twins of a gazelle.
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3. Thy two H8147 breasts H7699 are like two H8147 young H6082 roes H6646 that are twins H8380 .
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4. Your neck is like an ivory tower. near the gate of Bath Rabbim. that looks down on Damascus.
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4. Thy neck H6677 is as a tower H4026 of ivory H8127 ; thine eyes H5869 like the fishpools H1295 in Heshbon H2809 , by H5921 the gate H8179 of Bathrabbim H1337 : thy nose H639 is as the tower H4026 of Lebanon H3844 which looketh H6822 toward H6440 Damascus H1834 .
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5. Your head is like Mount Carmel, and your hair is like purple cloth; the king is captured in its folds.
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5. Thine head H7218 upon H5921 thee is like Carmel H3760 , and the hair H1803 of thine head H7218 like purple H713 ; the king H4428 is held H631 in the galleries H7298 .
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6. You are beautiful and pleasant; my love, you are full of delights.
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6. How H4100 fair H3302 and how H4100 pleasant H5276 art thou , O love H160 , for delights H8588 !
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7. You are tall like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its bunches of fruit.
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7. This H2063 thy stature H6967 is like H1819 to a palm tree H8558 , and thy breasts H7699 to clusters H811 of grapes .
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8. I said, "I will climb up the palm tree and take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like bunches of grapes, the smell of your breath like apples,
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8. I said H559 , I will go up H5927 to the palm tree H8558 , I will take hold H270 of the boughs H5577 thereof: now H4994 also thy breasts H7699 shall be H1961 as clusters H811 of the vine H1612 , and the smell H7381 of thy nose H639 like apples H8598 ;
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9. and your mouth like the best wine. Let this wine go down sweetly for my lover; may it flow gently past the lips and teeth.
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9. And the roof of thy mouth H2441 like the best H2896 wine H3196 for my beloved H1730 , that goeth H1980 down sweetly H4339 , causing the lips H8193 of those that are asleep H3463 to speak H1680 .
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10. I belong to my lover, and he desires only me.
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10. I H589 am my beloved H1730 's , and his desire H8669 is toward H5921 me.
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11. Come, my lover, let's go out into the country and spend the night in the fields.
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11. Come H1980 , my beloved H1730 , let us go forth H3318 into the field H7704 ; let us lodge H3885 in the villages H3723 .
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12. Let's go early to the vineyards and see if the buds are on the vines. Let's see if the blossoms have already opened and if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.
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12. Let us get up early H7925 to the vineyards H3754 ; let us see H7200 if H518 the vine H1612 flourish H6524 , whether the tender grape H5563 appear H6524 , and the pomegranates H7416 bud forth H5132 : there H8033 will I give H5414 thee H853 my loves H1730 .
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13. The mandrake flowers give their sweet smell, and all the best fruits are at our gates. I have saved them for you, my lover, the old delights and the new.
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13. The mandrakes H1736 give H5414 a smell H7381 , and at H5921 our gates H6607 are all manner H3605 of pleasant H4022 fruits , new H2319 and H1571 old H3465 , which I have laid up H6845 for thee , O my beloved H1730 .
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