3. Your fragrance is sweet;your very name is perfume.That’s why the young women love you.
4. Take me along with you; let’s run!My king has brought me into his chambers, saying,"Let’s exult and rejoice in you.Let’s savor your loving more than wine.No wonder they all love you!"
5. Dark am I, and lovely, daughters of Jerusalem—like the black tents of the Kedar nomads,like the curtains of Solomon’s palace.
6. Don’t stare at me because I’m darkenedby the sun’s gaze.My own brothers were angry with me.They made me a caretaker of the vineyards—but I couldn’t care for my own vineyard.
7. Tell me, you whom I love with all my heart—where do you pasture your flock,where do you rest them at noon?—so I don’t wander around with the flocks of your companions.[Man]
8. If you don’t know your way,most beautiful of women,then follow the tracks of the herdsand graze your little goatsby the tents of the shepherds.
9. I picture you, my dearest,as a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots!
10. Lovely are your cheeks, adorned with ear hoops;your neck, with beads.