4. Take me away with you – let us hurry!Let the king bring me into his chambers.We rejoice and delight in you;we will praise your love more than wine.How right they are to adore you!
5. Dark am I, yet lovely,daughters of Jerusalem,dark like the tents of Kedar,like the tent curtains of Solomon.
6. Do not stare at me because I am dark,because I am darkened by the sun.My mother’s sons were angry with meand made me take care of the vineyards;my own vineyard I had to neglect.
7. Tell me, you whom I love,where you graze your flockand where you rest your sheep at midday.Why should I be like a veiled womanbeside the flocks of your friends?
8. If you do not know, most beautiful of women,follow the tracks of the sheepand graze your young goatsby the tents of the shepherds.
9. I liken you, my darling, to a mareamong Pharaoh’s chariot horses.
10. Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,your neck with strings of jewels.
11. We will make you earrings of gold,studded with silver.
12. While the king was at his table,my perfume spread its fragrance.
13. My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrhresting between my breasts.
14. My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossomsfrom the vineyards of En Gedi.
15. How beautiful you are, my darling!Oh, how beautiful!Your eyes are doves.
16. How handsome you are, my beloved!Oh, how charming!And our bed is verdant.
17. The beams of our house are cedars;our rafters are firs.