7How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of a craftsman's hands. 2Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. 3Your brea...
6Where has your lover gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your lover turn, that we may look for him with you? 2My lover has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies. 3I am my lover's and m...
5I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink your fill, O lovers. 2I slept but my heart was awake....
4How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead. 2Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its t...
3All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. 2I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not...
2I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. 2Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens. 3Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my t...
1Solomon's Song of Songs. 2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth- for your love is more delightful than wine. 3Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens love you! 4Take me away with...
12Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, I find no pleasure in them- 2before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after...
11Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. 2Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. 3If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tre...
10As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. 3Even as he walks along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how...
