1. I am a rose of Sharon,a lily of the valleys.
2. Like a lily among thorns,so is my darling among the young women.
3. Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest,so is my love among the young men.I delight to sit in his shade,and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4. He brought me to the banquet hall, and he looked on me with love.
5. Sustain me with raisins;refresh me with apricots, for I am lovesick.
6. His left hand is under my head,and his right arm embraces me.
7. Young women of Jerusalem, I charge youby the gazelles and the wild does of the field:do not stir up or awaken loveuntil the appropriate time.
8. Listen! My love is approaching.Look! Here he comes,leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
9. My love is like a gazelleor a young stag. Look, he is standing behind our wall,gazing through the windows,peering through the lattice.
10. My love calls to me:Arise, my darling.Come away, my beautiful one.
11. For now the winter is past;the rain has ended and gone away.
12. The blossoms appear in the countryside.The time of singing has come,and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land.