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Your lips are like bright red strings.
    Your mouth is lovely.
The sides of your face are beautiful,
    like the halves of a pomegranate.
I see them through your veil.[a]
Your neck is like the great tower of King David.[b]
    It is round and strong.
Your necklace is like the shields of 1,000 brave soldiers
    that hang from the stones of the tower.
Your breasts are perfect,
    like two young gazelles that are twins.
    They feed themselves among the lilies.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:3 The woman may be wearing a veil. This may show that she has just married the man. But the word veil may mean only that her husband does not know her very well yet.
  2. 4:4 King David was Solomon's father.

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.