1Behold, you are beautiful my intimate one, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are of a dove; outside of your silence, your hair is like a flock of goats that goes up from Mount Gelad 2Your teeth are like a flock that is shorn going up from their washing, all bearing twins and none is barren among them 3Your lips like a cord of scarlet and your speech beautiful as the blossoms of a pomegranate 4Your neck, in your stillness, is like the tower of David; your throat built with belts, one thousand shields hanging upon it, all quivers of mighty men 5Your two breasts as two gazelles, twins of deer that feed among the lilies 6While the day will grow cool and the shadows of evening will decline, I shall go to the mountains of myrrh and to the hills of frankincense 7You are entirely beautiful, my intimate one, and there is no defect in you 8Come from Lebanon, my sister bride, come from Lebanon! Come and cross over from the top of Amana and from the top of Sanir and Khermon, from the den of lions and from the mountains of leopards 9You have given me heart, my sister bride, you have given me heart with one of your eyes, with one necklace of your neck 10How beautiful are your breasts, my sister bride! How much better are your breasts than wine, and the fragrance of your sweet spices than all sweet spices! 11Your lips drip honeycomb! All honey and milk are under your lips and the fragrance of your vesture is as the fragrance of Lebanon! 12A garden that is enclosed is my sister bride! A garden that is enclosed, a spring that is sealed 13Your nudity is a paradise of pomegranates with the fruit of produce; henna flower with spikenard 14Spikenard and saffron, crocus, cane and cinnamon with trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the best of sweet spices 15A spring garden, a well of living waters that flows from Lebanon 16Awaken, oh North, and come south wind! Blow in my garden! My sweet fragrances shall flow, and my beloved shall come to his garden, and he will eat from the fruit of his produce The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Translated by Glenn David Bauscher Glenn David Bauscher Lulu Publishing Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing 3rd edition Copyright © 2019 |