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My love is mine and I am his;he feeds among the lilies.

All of them are skilled with swordsand trained in warfare.Each has his sword at his sideto guard against the terror of the night.

Go out, young women of Zion,and gaze at King Solomon,wearing the crown his mother placed on himon the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

Awaken, north wind;come, south wind.Blow on my garden,and spread the fragrance of its spices.Let my love come to his gardenand eat its choicest fruits.

My love thrust his hand through the opening,and my feelings were stirred for him.

His head is purest gold.His hair is wavyand black as a raven.

His eyes are like dovesbeside flowing streams,washed in milkand set like jewels.

His cheeks are like beds of spice,mounds of perfume.His lips are lilies,dripping with flowing myrrh.

His arms are rods of goldset with beryl.His body is an ivory panelcovered with lapis lazuli.

His legs are alabaster pillarsset on pedestals of pure gold.His presence is like Lebanon,as majestic as the cedars.

His mouth is sweetness.He is absolutely desirable.This is my love, and this is my friend,young women of Jerusalem.

My love has gone down to his garden,to beds of spice,to feed in the gardensand gather lilies.

I am my love’s,and his desire is for me.

May his left hand be under my head,and his right arm embrace me.

A huge torrent cannot extinguish love;rivers cannot sweep it away.If a man were to give all his wealth for love,it would be utterly scorned.

I am a walland my breasts like towers.So in his eyes I have becomelike one who finds peace.

Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.He leased the vineyard to tenants.Each was to bring for his fruitone thousand pieces of silver.

The strong one will become tinder,and his work a spark;both will burn together,with no one to extinguish the flames.

and many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,to the house of the God of Jacob.He will teach us about his waysso that we may walk in his paths.”For instruction will go out of Zionand the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Go into the rocksand hide in the dustfrom the terror of the Lordand from his majestic splendor.