| New Living Translation | New International Version |
| 1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a skilled craftsman. | 1How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands. |
| 2Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies. | 2Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. |
| 3Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle. | 3Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle. |
| 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. | 4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus. |
| 5Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty. The king is held captive by its tresses. | 5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses. |
| 6Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights! | 6How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights! |
| 7You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit. | 7Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. |
| 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. | 8I said, "I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, |
| 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. | 9and your mouth like the best wine. She May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth. |
| 10I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own. | 10I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me. |
| 11Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers. | 11Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. |
| 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. | 12Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom-- there I will give you my love. |
| 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. | 13The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved. |
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