5. That they may be shomer over thee and keep thee from the zarah, from the nokhriyah with her smooth words.
6. For at the chalon (window) of my bais I looked through my lattice,
7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the banim, a na'ar (young man) devoid of lev [of understanding, sense],
8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went on the derech to her bais,
9. In the twilight, at erev, in the black and dark lailah;
10. And, hinei, there met him an isha with the attire of a zonah, and crafty of lev.
11. She is loud and soreret (rebellious, defiant); her raglayim abide not in her bais;
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.