4:1  HOW FAIR you are, my love [he said], how very fair! Your eyes behind your veil [remind me] of those of a dove; your hair [makes me think of the black, wavy fleece] of a flock of [the Arabian] goats which one sees trailing down Mount Gilead [beyond the Jordan on the frontiers of the desert].

4:2  Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes which have come up from the washing, of which all are in pairs, and none is missing among them.

4:3  Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

4:4  Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an arsenal, whereon hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.

4:5  Your two breasts are like two fawns, like twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.

4:6  Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, [in my thoughts] I will get to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense [to him whom my soul adores].

4:7  [He exclaimed] O my love, how beautiful you are! There is no flaw in you!

4:8  Come away with me from Lebanon, my [promised] bride, come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the top of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

4:9  You have ravished my heart {and} given me courage, my sister, my [promised] bride; you have ravished my heart {and} given me courage with one look from your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

4:10  How beautiful is your love, my sister, my [promised] bride! How much better is your love than wine! And the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!

4:11  Your lips, O my [promised] bride, drop honey as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue. And the odor of your garments is like the odor of Lebanon.

4:12  A garden enclosed {and} barred is my sister, my [promised] bride--a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

4:13  Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates {or} a paradise with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

4:14  Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloes, with all the chief spices.

4:15  You are a fountain [springing up] in a garden, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

4:16  [You have called me a garden, she said] Oh, I pray that the [cold] north wind and the [soft] south wind may blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out [in abundance for you in whom my soul delights]. Let my beloved come into his garden and eat its choicest fruits.