| New King James Version | English Standard Version |
| 1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman. | 1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. |
| 2Your navel is a rounded goblet; It lacks no blended beverage. Your waist is a heap of wheat Set about with lilies. | 2Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies. |
| 3Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle. | 3Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. |
| 4Your neck is like an ivory tower, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus. | 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. |
| 5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, And the hair of your head is like purple; A king is held captive by your tresses. | 5Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. |
| 6How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! | 6How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! |
| 7This stature of yours is like a palm tree, And your breasts like its clusters. | 7Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. |
| 8I said, “I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches.” Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The fragrance of your breath like apples, | 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, |
| 9And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved, Moving gently the lips of sleepers. | 9and your mouth like the best wine. She It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. |
| 10I am my beloved’s, And his desire is toward me. | 10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. |
| 11Come, my beloved, Let us go forth to the field; Let us lodge in the villages. | 11Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; |
| 12Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, Whether the grape blossoms are open, And the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. | 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. |
| 13The mandrakes give off a fragrance, And at our gates are pleasant fruits, All manner, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, my beloved. | 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. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved. |
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