| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. | 1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a skilled craftsman. |
| 2Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies. | 2Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies. |
| 3Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. | 3Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle. |
| 4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus. | 4Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus. |
| 5Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. | 5Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty. The king is held captive by its tresses. |
| 6How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! | 6Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights! |
| 7Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. | 7You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit. |
| 8I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, | 8I said, “I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like grape clusters, and the fragrance of your breath like apples. |
| 9and your mouth like the best wine. She It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. | 9May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine— Young Woman Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth. |
| 10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. | 10I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own. |
| 11Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; | 11Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers. |
| 12let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. | 12Let us get up early and go to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have budded, if the blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love. |
| 13The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. | 13There the mandrakes give off their fragrance, and the finest fruits are at our door, new delights as well as old, which I have saved for you, my lover. |
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