1. I am the rose of Sharon, and the shoshan (lily) of the valleys.
2. As the shoshan (lily) among thorns, so is my love among the banot.
3. As the tapuach (apple tree) among the trees of the wood, so is dodi (my beloved) among the banim. Betzilloh (in his shade, shadow) chimmadti (I desire [see Shir HaShirim 5:16]), and his p'ri (fruit) is sweet to my taste.
4. He brought me to the Bais HaYayin, and his degel (standard, banner, flag) over me is ahavah.
5. Sustain me with cakes of raisins, comfort me with apples: ki cholat ahavah ani (for I am faint with ahavah, lovesick).
6. His left hand is under my rosh, and his right hand doth embrace me.
7. I charge you, O ye banot Yerushalayim, by the gazelles, and by the deer of the sadeh, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah till it pleases [i.e., until its own time--see 3:5; 8:4].
8. Kol dodi (the voice of my beloved)! Hinei, he cometh leaping upon the harim, bounding over the hills.
9. Dodi (my beloved) is like a gazelle or a young deer; hinei, he standeth behind our Kotel (Wall); he looketh forth at the chalonot (windows), peering through the lattices [Rev 3:20].