1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter!

Your rounded thighs are like jewels,

the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

2 Your body is like a round goblet,

no mixed wine is wanting.

Your waist is like a heap of wheat,

set about with lilies.

3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,

that are twins of a roe.

4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.

Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

5 Your head on you is like Carmel.

The hair of your head like purple.

The king is held captive in its tresses.

6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are,

love, for delights!

7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree,

your breasts like its fruit.

8 I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree.

I will take hold of its fruit."

Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,

the smell of your breath like apples.

9 Your mouth is like the best wine,

that goes down smoothly for my beloved,

gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

10 I am my beloved’s.

His desire is toward me.

11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field.

Let’s lodge in the villages.

12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards.

Let’s see whether the vine has budded,

its blossom is open,

and the pomegranates are in flower.

There I will give you my love.

13 The mandrakes produce fragrance.

At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old,

which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

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.