## Song of Songs Chapter 4

###### Song of Songs 4:1
[Song of Songs 4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:1)

הִנָּ֨ךְ יָפָ֤ה רַעְיָתִי֙ הִנָּ֣ךְ יָפָ֔ה עֵינַ֣יִךְ יוֹנִ֔ים מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵ֑ךְ שַׂעְרֵךְ֙ כְּעֵ֣דֶר הָֽעִזִּ֔ים שֶׁגָּלְשׁ֖וּ מֵהַ֥ר גִּלְעָֽד׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Behold you are beautiful, my beloved, behold you are beautiful, your eyes are like doves from within your kerchief; your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilad.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes behind thy veil: thy hair is like a flock of goats, that cascade down from mount Gil῾ad.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Behold, you are fair, My love [viz. Numbers 14:20]; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves. Behind your (strings of) beads, your hair [sparkles] like a flock of goats sliding down Mount Gilead.


###### Song of Songs 4:2
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שִׁנַּ֙יִךְ֙ כְּעֵ֣דֶר הַקְּצוּב֔וֹת שֶׁעָל֖וּ מִן־הָרַחְצָ֑ה שֶׁכֻּלָּם֙ מַתְאִימ֔וֹת וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין בָּהֶֽם׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Your teeth are like a counted flock which have come up from the washing; all of which are perfect and none are blemished among them.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes, which came up from the washing; all of which bear twins, and none of them miscarries.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your teeth are like a choice flock [(of ewe lambs, selected for their wool)], rising from the washing, all perfect, no blemish among them.


###### Song of Songs 4:3
[Song of Songs 4:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:3)

כְּח֤וּט הַשָּׁנִי֙ שִׂפְתוֹתַ֔יִךְ וּמִדְבָּרֵ֖ךְ נָאוֶ֑ה כְּפֶ֤לַח הָֽרִמּוֹן֙ רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Like a scarlet thread are your lips, and your speech is comely; like a slice of pomegranate are your cheeks from within your kerchief.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is comely: thy cheek is like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
As a thread of scarlet are your lips, and your speech is comely. Like a pomegranate-half is your cheek-top behind your beads.


###### Song of Songs 4:4
[Song of Songs 4:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:4)

כְּמִגְדַּ֤ל דָּוִיד֙ צַוָּארֵ֔ךְ בָּנ֖וּי לְתַלְפִּיּ֑וֹת אֶ֤לֶף הַמָּגֵן֙ תָּל֣וּי עָלָ֔יו כֹּ֖ל שִׁלְטֵ֥י הַגִּבֹּרִֽים׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Your neck is like the Tower of Dovid, built as a model of beauty; a thousand shields are hung upon it, all the quivers of the mighty.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy neck is like the tower of David built with turrets, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Like the tower of David [i.e., majestic] is your neck, built for beauty. The "teaching of the shield" is hung upon it, all the quivers of the mighty [(i.e., the disciples)].


###### Song of Songs 4:5
[Song of Songs 4:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:5)

שְׁנֵ֥י שָׁדַ֛יִךְ כִּשְׁנֵ֥י עֳפָרִ֖ים תְּאוֹמֵ֣י צְבִיָּ֑ה הָרוֹעִ֖ים בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle who pasture among the roses.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, which feed among the lilies.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your two breasts [(which "nurse" you, i.e., Moses and Aaron)] are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, grazing in the lilies [(a "goodly pasture")].


###### Song of Songs 4:6
[Song of Songs 4:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:6)

עַ֤ד שֶׁיָּפ֙וּחַ֙ הַיּ֔וֹם וְנָ֖סוּ הַצְּלָלִ֑ים אֵ֤לֶךְ לִי֙ אֶל־הַ֣ר הַמּ֔וֹר וְאֶל־גִּבְעַ֖ת הַלְּבוֹנָֽה׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Until the sun spreads and the shadows flee; I will go to Mount Moriyah and to the hill of frankincense.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Before the day cools, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[(And this idyll between Me and you will persist)] until the sun is bared and the shadows are fled [(viz. 2:17) i.e., until the desecration of the sanctuary of Shiloh in the days of Chofni and Pinchas (viz. I Samuel 1), when] I will leave [this sanctuary and go] to the mount of myrrh [(Mount Moriah)] and to the hill of frankincense [(the Temple)].


###### Song of Songs 4:7
[Song of Songs 4:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:7)

כֻּלָּ֤ךְ יָפָה֙ רַעְיָתִ֔י וּמ֖וּם אֵ֥ין בָּֽךְ׃{ס}

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
You are completely beautiful, my beloved, and you are without blemish.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no blemish in thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[and there, again — ] "You are wholly fair, My love, and there is no blemish in you" [(and I will again desire your offerings)].


###### Song of Songs 4:8
[Song of Songs 4:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:8)

אִתִּ֤י מִלְּבָנוֹן֙ כַּלָּ֔ה אִתִּ֖י מִלְּבָנ֣וֹן תָּב֑וֹאִי תָּשׁ֣וּרִי**׀** מֵרֹ֣אשׁ אֲמָנָ֗ה מֵרֹ֤אשׁ שְׂנִיר֙ וְחֶרְמ֔וֹן מִמְּעֹנ֣וֹת אֲרָי֔וֹת מֵֽהַרְרֵ֖י נְמֵרִֽים׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
With me [will you come] from Levanon O bride, with me from Levanon will you come; you will look from the peak of Amanah, from the peaks of Snir of Chermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of leopards.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Come with me from Levanon, my bride, with me from Levanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Ḥermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[And when you are subsequently exiled for your sins] — with Me from the Levanon [(the Temple), My bride — with Me from the Levanon shall you come [i.e., I shall share your exile with you.] Look from the top (also, "first")] of Amanah: [When I gather in your exiles, reflect upon the reward owing you for the "first" of your emunah (faith) in Me: your following Me in the desert, your journeying and encamping at My command; look] from the top of Senir and Chermon, from the dens of lions [(Sichon and Og)], from the mountains of leopards.


###### Song of Songs 4:9
[Song of Songs 4:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:9)

לִבַּבְתִּ֖נִי אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה לִבַּבְתִּ֙נִי֙ (באחד) [בְּאַחַ֣ת] מֵעֵינַ֔יִךְ בְּאַחַ֥ד עֲנָ֖ק מִצַּוְּרֹנָֽיִךְ׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
You captured my heart, my sister, O bride; you captured my heart with but one of your eyes, with one necklace of your necklaces.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy eyes, with one link of thy necklace.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You have drawn My heart, My sister, My bride with [even] one of your eyes, with [even] one link of your necklace [i.e., with even one of your many mitzvoth and virtues; how much more so with all of them!]


###### Song of Songs 4:10
[Song of Songs 4:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:10)

מַה־יָּפ֥וּ דֹדַ֖יִךְ אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה מַה־טֹּ֤בוּ דֹדַ֙יִךְ֙ מִיַּ֔יִן וְרֵ֥יחַ שְׁמָנַ֖יִךְ מִכׇּל־בְּשָׂמִֽים׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
How beautiful is your love my sister, O bride; how superior is your love to wine, and the fragrance of your oils to all perfumes.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thy ointments than all spices!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
How fair are your loves [i.e., all the places where you showed your love for Me [(Gilgal, Shiloh, Nov, Giveon, the Temple in Jerusalem)], My sister, [My] bride. How much better are your loves than wine, and the fragrance of your oils [(your good name)] than all spices.


###### Song of Songs 4:11
[Song of Songs 4:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:11)

נֹ֛פֶת תִּטֹּ֥פְנָה שִׂפְתוֹתַ֖יִךְ כַּלָּ֑ה דְּבַ֤שׁ וְחָלָב֙ תַּ֣חַת לְשׁוֹנֵ֔ךְ וְרֵ֥יחַ שַׂלְמֹתַ֖יִךְ כְּרֵ֥יחַ לְבָנֽוֹן׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Your lips drip flowing honey, O bride; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Levanon.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the scent of thy garments is like the scent of Levanon.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They drip [(with Torah "sweets")] like the honeycomb, your lips, my bride. Honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments [i.e., the fragrance of the mitzvoth affecting your garments [e.g., tzitzith, tcheleth (the blue fringe), the priestly vestments, sha'atnez (the interdiction of an admixture of wool and linen)] is as the fragrance of the Levanon.


###### Song of Songs 4:12
[Song of Songs 4:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:12)

גַּ֥ן׀נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
A locked garden is my sister, O bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
A locked garden [i.e., chaste] is My sister, [My] bride, a locked gate, a sealed spring.


###### Song of Songs 4:13
[Song of Songs 4:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:13)

שְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙ פַּרְדֵּ֣ס רִמּוֹנִ֔ים עִ֖ם פְּרִ֣י מְגָדִ֑ים כְּפָרִ֖ים עִם־נְרָדִֽים׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Your arid fields are a pomegranate orchard with luscious fruits; henna with spikenard.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, henna and nard.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your dry fields [i.e., even the "mediocre" among you] are like a [fruitful] orchard of pomegranates, with choice fruits, henna and nard.


###### Song of Songs 4:14
[Song of Songs 4:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:14)

נֵ֣רְדְּ**׀** וְכַרְכֹּ֗ם קָנֶה֙ וְקִנָּמ֔וֹן עִ֖ם כׇּל־עֲצֵ֣י לְבוֹנָ֑ה מֹ֚ר וַאֲהָל֔וֹת עִ֖ם כׇּל־רָאשֵׁ֥י בְשָׂמִֽים׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes with all the major spices.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.


###### Song of Songs 4:15
[Song of Songs 4:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:15)

מַעְיַ֣ן גַּנִּ֔ים בְּאֵ֖ר מַ֣יִם חַיִּ֑ים וְנֹזְלִ֖ים מִן־לְבָנֽוֹן׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
You are a garden spring, a well of living waters; and flowing streams from Levanon.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Levanon.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
A pool of gardens, a well of living waters [(allusions to the ablutions of the daughters of Israel)] and [crystal-clear] drippings from Levanon.


###### Song of Songs 4:16
[Song of Songs 4:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Song%20of%20Songs/r/4:16)

ע֤וּרִי צָפוֹן֙ וּב֣וֹאִי תֵימָ֔ן הָפִ֥יחִי גַנִּ֖י יִזְּל֣וּ בְשָׂמָ֑יו יָבֹ֤א דוֹדִי֙ לְגַנּ֔וֹ וְיֹאכַ֖ל פְּרִ֥י מְגָדָֽיו׃

**The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001:**
Awake, wind from the north and come, wind from the south, blow upon my garden so that its fragrance may flow; let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its luscious fruit.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[G-d says:] Awake, O north [wind], and come, O south [wind]. Blow [upon] My garden [and let the fragrance of] its spices be wafted [afar and gather in the exiles.] [Israel responds:] Let my Beloved come to His garden and eat His choice fruits. ["If You are there, all is there!"]