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Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon.
Your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks behind your veil
are like the halves of a pomegranate.
Like the tower of David,
your neck is adorned with rows of stones.[a]
A thousand shields hang on it,
all of them the equipment of warriors.
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle, that browse among the lilies.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 Or adorned with elegance. The meaning is uncertain.