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.
21. By her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the smoothness of her sfatayim she seduced him.
22. He goeth after her and followeth immediately, as a shor (ox) goeth to tavach (stock yard, slaughter-house), or as the fettered to the musar of the fool;
23. Till a khetz (arrow) strike through his liver; as a tzippor hasteth to the pach (snare), and knoweth not that it is for his nefesh (life).
24. Pay heed unto me now therefore, O ye banim, and attend to the words of my peh (mouth).