1 Hoe mooi is u skrede in die skoene, o edele dogter! Die golwende lyne van u heupe is soos halssierade, 'n werk van kunstenaarshande.
2 U nawel is 'n ronde kom -- laat die gemengde wyn nie ontbreek nie. U liggaam is 'n hoop koring, omring deur lelies.
3 U twee borste is soos twee lammers, tweelinge van 'n gemsbok.
4 U hals is soos 'n ivoortoring, u oë vywers in Hesbon by die poort Bat-Rabbim; u neus soos die toring van die L¡banon wat na Damaskus toe uitkyk.
5 U hoof op u is soos die Karmel, en die golwende hare van u hoof soos purper -- 'n koning gevang in haarlokke!
6 Hoe mooi en hoe lieflik is u, o liefde, onder al die genietinge!
7 U hoë gestalte daar lyk soos 'n dadelpalm, en u borste soos vrugtetrosse.
8 Ek het gedink: Laat ek op die dadelpalm klim, laat ek sy trosse gryp; en laat u borste tog wees soos trosse van die wingerdstok, en die geur van u asem soos die van appels,
9 en u verhemelte soos die beste wyn wat vir my beminde saggies na binne gly, en oor die lippe vloei van die wat inslaap.
10 Ek is my beminde s'n, en sy begeerte is na my.
11 Kom, my beminde, laat ons uitgaan in die veld, laat ons in die dorpe vernag.
12 Laat ons vroeg na die wingerde gaan, laat ons sien of die wingerdstok uitloop, die druiwebloeisel oopgaan, die granate blom. Daar sal ek u my liefde gee.
13 Die liefdesappels gee geur, en by ons deure is allerhande kostelike vrugte, vars en oud; o my beminde, dit het ek vir u weggebêre.
1 How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:
2 Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
3 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;
9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.
12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.