5. I’m dark but lovely,women of Jerusalem,dark like the tents of Kedar,like the curtains of Solomon.
6. Don’t look at how dark I am,at how dark the sun has made me.My brothers were angry with meand made me tend the vineyards,so I haven’t tended my own vineyard!
7. Tell me, you whom I love,where do you feed your sheep?Where do you let them rest at noon?Why should I look for you near your friend’s sheep,like a woman who wears a veil?
8. You are the most beautiful of women.Surely you know to follow the sheepand feed your young goatsnear the shepherds’ tents.
9. My darling, you are like a mareamong the king’s stallions.
10. Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments,and your neck with jewels.
11. We will make for you gold earringswith silver hooks.
12. The smell of my perfume spreads outto the king on his couch.