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The young woman:

16 My lover, I see that you are very handsome!
    Yes, you are lovely!
This field of fresh, green grass is our comfortable bed.
17 The cedar trees above us are the beams of our bedroom.[a]
    The pine trees cover us like a roof.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:17 Beams are big pieces of wood that the roof is fixed to.

She

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

He

17 The beams of our house are cedars;(B)
    our rafters are firs.

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