⁶ How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

¹⁵ See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

¹⁶ See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

¹⁰ How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

¹¹ So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

¹⁴ O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

⁷ You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

¹⁰ I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

⁴ You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.

⁵ For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

¹⁷ The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.