Song of Solomon

¹ fair one? Where on earth can he be? Can we help you look for him?

² to browse among the flowers, touching the colors and forms.

³ He caresses the sweet-smelling flowers.

⁴ you're as beautiful as Tirzah, city of delights, Lovely as Jerusalem, city of dreams, the ravishing visions of my ecstasy.

⁵ I'm not used to this! I can't take it in. Your hair flows and shimmers like a flock of goats in the distance streaming down a hillside in the sunshine.

⁶ expressive and strong and clean.

⁷ are soft and radiant.

⁸ never has been, never will be.

⁹ My dove is perfection, Pure and innocent as the day she was born, and cradled in joy by her mother. Everyone who came by to see her exclaimed and admired her— All the fathers and mothers, the neighbors and friends, blessed and praised her:

¹⁰ dawn-fresh, moon-lovely, sun-radiant, ravishing as the night sky with its galaxies of stars?"

¹¹ looking for signs of spring, Looking for buds about to burst into flower, anticipating readiness, ripeness.

¹² carried away by lofty thoughts!

¹³ Dance, and we'll feast our eyes on your grace! Everyone wants to see the Shulammite dance her victory dances of love and peace.