| New King James Version | New International Version |
| 1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman. | 1How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands. |
| 2Your navel is a rounded goblet; It lacks no blended beverage. Your waist is a heap of wheat Set about with lilies. | 2Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies. |
| 3Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle. | 3Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle. |
| 4Your neck is like an ivory tower, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus. | 4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus. |
| 5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, And the hair of your head is like purple; A king is held captive by your tresses. | 5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses. |
| 6How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! | 6How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights! |
| 7This stature of yours is like a palm tree, And your breasts like its clusters. | 7Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. |
| 8I said, “I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches.” Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The fragrance of your breath like apples, | 8I said, "I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, |
| 9And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved, Moving gently the lips of sleepers. | 9and your mouth like the best wine. She May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth. |
| 10I am my beloved’s, And his desire is toward me. | 10I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me. |
| 11Come, my beloved, Let us go forth to the field; Let us lodge in the villages. | 11Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. |
| 12Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, Whether the grape blossoms are open, And the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. | 12Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom-- there I will give you my love. |
| 13The mandrakes give off a fragrance, And at our gates are pleasant fruits, All manner, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, my beloved. | 13The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved. |
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