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Your head crowns you[a] like Mount Carmel.
    Your flowing locks[b] are like purple,
        and a king could be captured in the dangling tresses.
How beautiful and lovely you are,
    you are love with its exquisite delights.[c]
Your stature[d] is like a palm tree,
    and your breasts are like clusters of fruit.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:5 Lit. is on you
  2. Song of Solomon 7:5 Lit. the hair of your head
  3. Song of Solomon 7:6 Or my love with exquisite delights; Lit. Love with exquisite delights
  4. Song of Solomon 7:7 Lit. This stature of yours
  5. Song of Solomon 7:7 The Heb. lacks of fruit

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.(A)
    Your hair is like royal tapestry;
    the king is held captive by its tresses.
How beautiful(B) you are and how pleasing,
    my love, with your delights!(C)
Your stature is like that of the palm,
    and your breasts(D) like clusters of fruit.

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