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Song of Songs 4 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:1 - Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:3 - Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 - Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an arsenal, whereon hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:5 - Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6 - Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will hie me to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:7 - You are all fair, my love; there is no flaw in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:8 - Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Ama'na, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:9 - You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 - How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride! how much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Your lips distil nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12 - A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:13 - Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 - nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices--
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:16 - Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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