¹⁶ How handsome you are, my beloved!^(A)
    Oh, how charming!
    And our bed is verdant.

³ Like an apple^[a] tree among the trees of the forest
    is my beloved^(A) among the young men.
I delight^(B) to sit in his shade,
    and his fruit is sweet to my taste.^(C)

¹⁷ Until the day breaks
    and the shadows flee,^(A)
turn, my beloved,^(B)
    and be like a gazelle
or like a young stag^(C)
    on the rugged hills.^[a](D)

⁸ Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you^(A)—
    if you find my beloved,^(B)
what will you tell him?
    Tell him I am faint with love.^(C)