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Your lips are like scarlet thread.
    Your mouth is lovely.
    Your temples behind your veil are like slices of pomegranate.
Your neck is like David’s beautifully-designed[a] tower.
    A thousand round shields belonging to soldiers
        are hung on it.
Your breasts are like two fawns,
    like twin gazelles grazing among the lilies.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:4 Hebrew meaning of “beautifully-designed” uncertain.

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
    your mouth(A) is lovely.(B)
Your temples behind your veil
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(C)
Your neck is like the tower(D) of David,
    built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(E)
    all of them shields of warriors.
Your breasts(F) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle(G)
    that browse among the lilies.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.