SNG 1:1 Shir HaShirim, which is Sh'lomoʼs.

SNG 1:2 Let him kiss me with the neshikot (kisses) of his mouth; for better is dodecha (thy love) than yayin (wine) .

SNG 1:3 Tovim is the fragrance of thy shmanim (ointments) ; thy shem (name) is like shemen (ointment) poured forth; therefore do the alamot love thee.

SNG 1:4 Draw me; so will we run after thee; the Melech hath brought me into his chadarim (chambers) ; we will be glad and rejoice in thee; we will extol dodecha (thy love) more than yayin; uprightly have they loved thee.

SNG 1:5 Shechorah (black, dark, sun-blackened) am I, yet lovely, O ye banot Yerushalayim, like the oholim (tents) of Kedar, like the curtains of Sh'lomo.

SNG 1:6 Let your eyes burn not into me because I am black, because the shemesh hath burned its eyes into me; bnei immi (my step-brothers) were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the kramim (vineyards) ; but mine own kerem (vineyard) have I not kept.

SNG 1:7 O tell me, thou whom my nefesh loveth, where feedest thou? Where makest thou thy flock to lie down at noon? For why should I be as one who veils herself among the edrei chaverecha (the flocks of thy chaverim, fellow companions) ?

SNG 1:8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among nashim, go thy way forth by the footprints of the tzon, and feed thy young goats beside the mishkenot haro'im (the tents of the shepherds) .

SNG 1:9 O my love, to a susah (mare) among the chariots of Pharaoh do I compare thee.

SNG 1:10 Thy cheeks are lovely with ornaments, thy tzavar (neck) with necklaces.

SNG 1:11 Ornaments of zahav will we make for thee, studded with kesef.

SNG 1:12 While the Melech is at his table, my spikenard perfume has yielded its fragrance.

SNG 1:13 Dodi (my beloved) is to me a sachet of myrrh that lieth in my bosom.

SNG 1:14 Dodi (my beloved) is to me as a cluster of henna blooms in the kramim (vineyards) of Ein-Gedi.

SNG 1:15 See, thou art yafeh (fair) , my love; see, thou art fair; thine eynayim are yonim (doves) .

SNG 1:16 See, thou art yafeh (handsome) , dodi (my beloved) , yea, na'im (pleasing) ; also our couch is verdant.

SNG 1:17 The beams of our bais are cedar, and our rafters are cypress.

SNG 2:1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the shoshan (lily) of the valleys.

SNG 2:2 As the shoshan (lily) among thorns, so is my love among the banot.

SNG 2:3 As the tapuach (apple tree) among the trees of the wood, so is dodi (my beloved) among the banim. Betzilloh (in his shade, shadow) chimmadti (I desire ) , and his p'ri (fruit) is sweet to my taste.

SNG 2:4 He brought me to the Bais HaYayin, and his degel (standard, banner, flag) over me is ahavah.

SNG 2:5 Sustain me with cakes of raisins, comfort me with apples: ki cholat ahavah ani (for I am faint with ahavah, lovesick) .

SNG 2:6 His left hand is under my rosh, and his right hand doth embrace me.

SNG 2:7 I charge you, O ye banot Yerushalayim, by the gazelles, and by the deer of the sadeh, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah till it pleases.

SNG 2:8 Kol dodi (the voice of my beloved) ! Hinei, he cometh leaping upon the harim, bounding over the hills.

SNG 2:9 Dodi (my beloved) is like a gazelle or a young deer; hinei, he standeth behind our Kotel (Wall) ; he looketh forth at the chalonot (windows) , peering through the lattices.

SNG 2:10 Dodi (my beloved) spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

SNG 2:11 For, hinei, the winter is past, the geshem (rain) is over and gone;

SNG 2:12 The flowers appear on ha'aretz; the time of zemer (song, singing of birds) has come; and the voice of the turtledove is heard in Artzeinu (our Land) ;

SNG 2:13 The te'enah (fig tree) putteth forth her early figs, and the vines with the tender grape give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

SNG 2:14 O my yonah (dove) , that art in the clefts of the rock, in the seter (secret place) of the cliff, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is lovely.

SNG 2:15 Catch the shu'alim (foxes) , the shu'alim ketanim (little foxes) , that spoil the kramim (vines) ; for krameinu (our [blooming] vines) have tender grapes.

SNG 2:16 Dodi (my beloved) is mine, and I am his; he feedeth among the lilies.

SNG 2:17 Until HaYom (the day) break, and the shadows flee away, turn, dodi (my beloved) , and be thou like a gazelle or a young deer upon the hills of Beter.

SNG 3:1 In the nights on my bed I sought him whom my nefesh loveth; I sought him, but I found him not.

SNG 3:2 So I will rise then, and go about the city in the streets, and in the rechovot (open squares, places) ; I will seek him whom my nefesh loveth; I sought him, but found him not.

SNG 3:3 The shomrim (watchmen) that go about the city found me; to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my nefesh loveth?

SNG 3:4 Scarcely had I passed from them, when I found him whom my nefesh loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into the bais immi (the house of my mother) , and into the cheder of her that conceived me.

SNG 3:5 I charge you, O ye banot Yerushalayim, by the gazelles, and by the deer of the sadeh, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah till it pleases.

SNG 3:6 Who is this that cometh out of the midbar like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the rokhel (merchant) ?

SNG 3:7 Hinei, his conveyance, which is Sh'lomoʼs; threescore gibborim (valiant men) are around it, of the Gibborei Yisroel.

SNG 3:8 They all hold swords, being expert in milchamah (war) ; every man hath his cherev (sword) at his side against the pachad (terror, dread) of the nights.

SNG 3:9 HaMelech Sh'lomo made himself an appiryon (palanquin) , of the wood of the Levanon.

SNG 3:10 He made the pillars thereof of kesef, the support thereof of zahav, the cushion of it of purple, the interior thereof being inlaid with Ahavah, by the banot Yerushalayim.

SNG 3:11 Come out, O ye banot Tziyon, and behold Sh'lomo HaMelech with the atarah (crown) wherewith his em crowned him in the Yom Chasunoh (day of his wedding) , and in the Yom Simchat Libo (day of the gladness of his heart) .

SNG 4:1 Behold, thou art yafeh, my love; behold, thou art yafeh; thine eyes are yonim (doves) behind your veil; thy hair is like an eder (flock) of goats descending from Mount Gil'ad.

SNG 4:2 Thy teeth are like an eder of sheep that are just shorn, coming up from washing; whereof every one is matched, and none is missing among them.

SNG 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is naveh (lovely) ; thy temple is like a half-pomegranate within thy veil.

SNG 4:4 Thy tzavar (neck) is like the migdal Dovid girt with battlements, whereon there hang a thousand mogen, all the shields of Gibborim.

SNG 4:5 Thy two breasts are like two ofarim (fawns, young deer) that are twins, which graze among the lilies.

SNG 4:6 Until HaYom (the day) break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the har hamor (mountain of myrrh) , and to the hill of frankincense.

SNG 4:7 Thou art all yafeh, my love; there is no mum (blemish, spot, defect, flaw) in thee.

SNG 4:8 Come with me from the Levanon, my kallah (bride) , with me from the Levanon; come down from the heights of Amanah, from the top of Senir and Chermon, from the dens of the arayot (lions) , from the hills of the nemerim (leopards) .

SNG 4:9 Thou hast ravished my lev, my sister, my kallah; thou hast ravished my lev with one of thy glances, with one link of thy necklace.

SNG 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my kallah! How much better is thy love than yayin! And the scent of thine perfumes than any spice!

SNG 4:11 Thy lips, O my kallah, drip like the honeycomb; devash and cholov are under thy tongue; and the scent of thy garments is like the scent of the Levanon.

SNG 4:12 A gan (garden) locked is my sister, my kallah; a spring enclosed, a ma'ayan (fountain) sealed.

SNG 4:13 Thy plants are a pardeis (park, paradise) of pomegranates, with pleasant p'ri; henna with spikenard,

SNG 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with kol atzei levonah (all kinds of incense trees) ; myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices:

SNG 4:15 A na'yan (fountain) of gardens, a be'er (well) of mayim chayyim (well of living waters) , and streams from the Levanon.

SNG 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south wind; blow upon my gan (garden) , that the fragrances thereof may flow out. Let dodi (my beloved) come into his gan (garden) , and let him taste its choice pri (fruits) .

SNG 5:1 I am come into my gan (garden) , my sister, my kallah; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my devash (honey) ; I have drunk my yayin with my cholov (milk) : Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, dodim.

SNG 5:2 I sleep, but my lev waketh: it is the voice of dodi (my beloved) that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my yonah (dove) tammati (my undefiled, my perfect one) ; for my head is filled with tal (dew) , and my hair with the drops of the lailah.

SNG 5:3 I have put off my kuttonet (kesones, chiton, robe) ; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

SNG 5:4 Dodi (my beloved) thrust his hand through the latch-opening, my heart began pounding for him.

SNG 5:5 I arose to open to dodi (my beloved) ; and my hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the man'ul (lock, door bolt) .

SNG 5:6 I opened to dodi (my beloved) ; but dodi had withdrawn and gone; my nefesh departed when he spoke; I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

SNG 5:7 The shomrim (watchmen) that went about the city found me, they beat me, they wounded me; the shomrei hachomat took away my cloak from me.

SNG 5:8 I charge you, O banot Yerushalayim, if ye find dodi (my beloved) , what will ye tell him? Tell him shecholat ahavah ani (I am faint with ahavah, lovesick) .

SNG 5:9 How is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among nashim? How is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

SNG 5:10 Dodi (my beloved) is radiant and ruddy, unrivaled by ten thousand.

SNG 5:11 His head is like the purest gold, his hair is wavy and shachor (black) as the raven.

SNG 5:12 His eyes are like yonim (doves) by the streams of mayim, washed with cholov, jewels fitly set.

SNG 5:13 His cheeks are like beds of spices, like sweet flowers; his lips like shoshanim (lilies) , dripping sweet scented myrrh.

SNG 5:14 His hands are like rods of zahav set with chrysolites; his body is like a polished work of ivory decorated with sapphires.

SNG 5:15 His legs are like pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine zahav; his countenance is like the Levanon, bachor (one being choice) like the cedars.

SNG 5:16 His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is machamaddim (altogether desirable) . This is dodi (my beloved) , and this is my friend, O banot Yerushalayim.

SNG 6:1 Where is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among nashim? Where is thy beloved turned aside, that we may seek him with thee?

SNG 6:2 Dodi (my beloved) is gone down into his gan (garden) , to the beds of spices, to feed in the ganim (gardens) , and to gather shoshanim (lilies) .

SNG 6:3 I am my belovedʼs, and my beloved is mine; he feedeth among the shoshanim.

SNG 6:4 Thou art yafeh, O my love, as Tirtzah, lovely as Yerushalayim, awe-inspiring as bannered troops on the march.

SNG 6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they overwhelm me; thy hair is as an eder of goats that descend from Gil'ad.

SNG 6:6 Thy teeth are as an eder harechalim (flock of ewes) which go up from the washing, whereof every one is matched, and there is not one missing among them.

SNG 6:7 As a half pomegranate is thy temple within thy veil.

SNG 6:8 There are threescore melakhot (queens) , and fourscore pilagshim (concubines) , and alamot (young unmarried virgins) without number.

SNG 6:9 My yonah (dove) , tammati (my perfect one, my undefiled) is unique; she is the only one of her em (mother) , she is the barah (choice one) of her that bore her. The banot saw her, they called her blessed; yea, the melakhot and the pilagshim praise her.

SNG 6:10 Who is she that looks forth like the shachar (dawn) , yafeh as the levanah (moon) , clear as the sun, and awe-inspiring as bannered troops on the march?

SNG 6:11 I went down into the grove of nut trees to see the blossoms of the valley, and to see whether hagefen (the vine) flourished and the pomegranates bloomed.

SNG 6:12 Before I was aware, my nefesh lifted me up to the merkevot of ammi (my people) of one, a royal one.

SNG 7:1 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may gaze upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the mecholat Machanayim (dance of the Machanayim) .

SNG 7:2 How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O princeʼs daughter! Thy graceful legs are like jewels, ma'aseh yedei amon (the work of the hands of an artist) .

SNG 7:3 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not wine: thy waist is like a mound of chittim (wheat) encircled by shoshanim (lilies) .

SNG 7:4 Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.

SNG 7:5 Thy tzavar (neck) is like a migdal of ivory; thine eyes like the pools of Cheshbon, by the sha'ar (gate) of Bat-Rabbim; thy nose is like the migdal of the Levanon which looketh toward Damascus.

SNG 7:6 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like royal tapestry; Melech is held captive in its tresses.

SNG 7:7 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O Ahavah, for delights!

SNG 7:8 This thy stature is like a tamar (palm tree) , and thy breasts eshkolot (clusters [of fruit]) .

SNG 7:9 I said, I will climb up to the tamar, I will take hold of the branches thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as eshkelot hagefen (clusters of the vine) , and the scent of thy breath like apples;

SNG 7:10 And the roof of thy mouth like the best yayin of dodi (my beloved) , that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

SNG 7:11 I am my belovedʼs, and to me goeth forth his teshukah (desire) .

SNG 7:12 Come, dodi (my beloved) , let us go forth into the sadeh; let us lodge in the villages.

SNG 7:13 Let us get up early to the kramim (vineyards) ; let us see if the gefen budded, whether the tender grape appears, and the pomegranates bloom; there will I give thee my love.

SNG 7:14 The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of pleasant fruits, chadashim (new ones) and yeshanim (old ones) , which I have stored up and kept for thee, O dodi (my beloved) .

SNG 8:1 O that thou were like my brother, that nursed the breasts of immi (my mother) ! Then, if I should find thee outside, I would kiss thee; yea, and no one would look down on me.

SNG 8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into bais immi. Thou wouldest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced yayin and the nectar of my pomegranate.

SNG 8:3 His left hand should be under my rosh, and his right hand embrace me.

SNG 8:4 I charge you, O banot Yerushalayim, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah (the Love) till it pleases.

SNG 8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the midbar, leaning upon her beloved? Under the tapuach (apple tree) I awakened thee; it was there thy em conceived thee; there she who brought thee forth conceived thee.

SNG 8:6 Set me as a chotam (seal) upon thine lev, as a chotam upon thine zero'a (arm) ; for ahavah is strong as mavet (death) ; kinah (jealousy) as unyielding as Sheol; the flames thereof are flames of eish, the flame of Hashem .

SNG 8:7 Mayim rabbim (many waters) cannot quench HaAhavah, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the wealth of his bais for ahavah, it would be utterly scorned.

SNG 8:8 We have an achot ketannah (little sister) , and she hath as yet no breasts. What shall we do for achoteinu (our sister) in the day when she shall be spoken for?

SNG 8:9 If she be a chomah (wall) , we will build upon her a pinnacle of kesef; and if she be a delet (door) , we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

SNG 8:10 I am a chomah (wall) , and my breasts, like migdalot; then was I in his eyes like one that findeth shalom.

SNG 8:11 Sh'lomo had a kerem (vineyard) at Ba'al-Hamon; he gave over the kerem (vineyard) unto caretakers; each had to pay a thousand pieces of kesef for the p'ri (fruit) thereof.

SNG 8:12 My kerem (vineyard) , which is mine, is at my own disposal; thou, O Sh'lomo, the thousand are for thee, and two hundred for those that tend the p'ri thereof!

SNG 8:13 Thou that dwellest in the ganim (gardens) , the chaverim are listening for thy voice; cause me to hear it.

SNG 8:14 Make haste, dodi (my beloved) , and be thou like to a gazelle or a young deer upon the mountains where spices grow.