12. Now is she without, now in the rechovot, and lurketh in wait at every pinnah (corner)--
13. So she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with a brazen ponem said unto him,
14. I have zivkhei shelamim vowed; this yom have I payed my neder.
15. Al ken (therefore) came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
16. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with a bedspread of fine linen of Mitzrayim.
17. I have perfumed my mishkav (bed) with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. Come, let us take our fill of dodim (loves) until boker; let us delight ourselves with ahavim (loves, pl. of intensity).
19. For the ish (man, i.e., husband) is not b'bais, he is gone a derech merachok (distant journey);
20. He hath taken a bag of kesef with him, and will come back to his bais at the appointed time.