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Expressions of Praise
The Beloved
⚓O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2Your navel is a rounded goblet;
It lacks no blended beverage.
Your waist is a heap of wheat
Set about with lilies.
3⚓Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.
4⚓Your 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.
5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
And the hair of your head is like purple;
A king is held captive by your tresses.
6How fair and how pleasant you are,
O love, with your delights!
7This stature of yours is like a palm tree,
And your breasts like its clusters.
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,
9And the roof of your mouth like the best wine.
The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved,
Moving gently the lips of sleepers.
10⚓I am my beloved’s,
And ⚓his desire is toward me.
11Come, my beloved,
Let us go forth to the field;
Let us lodge 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.
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.
1Tug hluas nkauj kws zoo le puj vaaj 'e,
koj kwtaw kws rau khau paaj
zoo nkauj ua luaj le.
Koj ob txhais ncej qaab kheej quas laam
le lub pov hum kws tug Kws
tub txhuam tau lawm.
2Koj lub ntaws yog lub phaaj kws ntim
cawv txwv maab kws tov lawm tsw tu le.
Koj lub plaab yog ib pawg mog
muaj tej paaj lilij nyob ib ncig.
3Koj ob lub mig zoo yaam nkaus le
ob tug mivnyuas kauv seb ntxaib.
4Koj lub cej daab zoo yaam nkaus le
lub chaw tsom faaj kws muab kaug ntxhw ua.
Koj ob lub qhov muag zoo yaam nkaus
tej paag dej huv lub moos Hesanpoo
kws nyob ntawm rooj loog Npalanpi.
Koj caaj ntswg zoo yaam le
lub chaw tsom faaj huv Lenpanoo
kws saib rua nraag lub nroog Ntamaxaka.
5Koj lub taubhau zoo yaam nkaus le
lub hauv roob Khamee,
koj cov plaubhau nplwg loo
zoo yaam nkaus le cov xuv yimlaaj,
ua rua koj tug vaajntxwv sab qaug lag.
6Tug kws kuv nyam 'e,
tug hluas nkauj kws txaus kuv lub sab,
koj zoo nkauj hab raug muag kawg le.
7Koj cev yag ntxag yaam tsob toov laaj
hab koj ob lub mig zoo yaam nkaus le
ob tauv txwv toov laaj.
8Kuv xaav tas kuv yuav daum
tsob toov laaj ntawd,
kuv yuav tuav rawv tauv txwv ntawd ca.
Thov ca koj ob lub mig zoo nkaus le
tauv txwv maab,
hab thov ca koj tej paa tsw qaab
yaam le txwv duaj,
9hab thov ca qhov kws koj nwj
zoo yaam le tej tseem cawv txwv maab
kws haus ndaug quas leeg,
ndwg rua tej tawv ncauj hab kaug nav.
10Kuv yog tug kws ntxwm kuv sab le teej tug,
hab nwg yeej ntshaw tau kuv kawg le.
11Tug kws kuv ntxwm sab, ca le lug maj,
ca ib ua ke moog tom teb,
ib moog su huv tej zej zog.
12Ca ib sawv ntxuv moog tom vaaj txwv maab,
ib moog saib tej txwv maab
ua cos paaj los tsw tau,
saib tej txwv tub nraa paaj los tsw tau
hab saib tej txwv ntsab pobkws
tawg paaj los tsw tau.
Kuv yuav pub kuv txujkev nyam
rua koj hov ntawd.
13Tug kws kuv ntxwm sab 'e,
cov txwv lwg ntu‑nta‑i⚓
tsw qaab ntxag thoob plawg,
hab ntawm ib ob leeg qhov rooj
muaj txhua yaam txwv ntoo qaab qaab,
muaj cov txwv qub hab txwv tshab
kws kuv de ca rua koj.