Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other (SNG 6:3-7:10)

He

[6:4] You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

[6:5] Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me— Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

[6:6] Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young.

[6:7] Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

[6:8] There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

[6:9] My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.

[6:10] “Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?”

She

[6:11] I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

[6:12] Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.

Others

[6:13] Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you.

He

Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies?

[7:1] How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

[7:2] Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

[7:3] Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

[7:4] Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus.

[7:5] Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

[7:6] How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!

[7:7] Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.

[7:8] I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

[7:9] and your mouth like the best wine.

She

It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.

[7:10] I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.