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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your teeth are like a choice flock [(of ewe lambs, selected for their wool)], rising from the washing, all perfect, no blemish among them.

Like a scarlet thread are your lips, and your speech is comely; like a slice of pomegranate are your cheeks from within your kerchief.

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.

As a thread of scarlet are your lips, and your speech is comely. Like a pomegranate-half is your cheek-top behind your beads.

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.

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

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)].

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle who pasture among the roses.

Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, which feed among the lilies.

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")].

Until the sun spreads and the shadows flee; I will go to Mount Moriyah and to the hill of frankincense.

Before the day cools, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

[(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)].

You are completely beautiful, my beloved, and you are without blemish.

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no blemish in thee.

[and there, again — ] "You are wholly fair, My love, and there is no blemish in you" [(and I will again desire your offerings)].

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.

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.

[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.

You captured my heart, my sister, O bride; you captured my heart with but one of your eyes, with one necklace of your necklaces.

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.

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!]

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

A locked garden is my sister, O bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

A locked garden [i.e., chaste] is My sister, [My] bride, a locked gate, a sealed spring.

Your arid fields are a pomegranate orchard with luscious fruits; henna with spikenard.

Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, henna and nard.

Your dry fields [i.e., even the "mediocre" among you] are like a [fruitful] orchard of pomegranates, with choice fruits, henna and nard.

Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes with all the major spices.

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

You are a garden spring, a well of living waters; and flowing streams from Levanon.

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Levanon.

A pool of gardens, a well of living waters [(allusions to the ablutions of the daughters of Israel)] and [crystal-clear] drippings from Levanon.

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.

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.

[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!"]