Canticle of Canticles 7

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Turn, turn, O Shulammite,	1 How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,	2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
3 Your navel is a round bowl	3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 Your breasts are like twin fawns,	4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
5 Your neck is like a tower of ivory.	5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 You head rises like Carmel;	6 How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
7 How beautiful you are, how pleasing,	7 You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 Your very figure is like a palm tree,	8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 I said: I will climb the palm tree,	9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
10 And your mouth like an excellent wine-	10 I am my beloveds, and his desire is for me.
11 I belong to my lover	11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
12 Come, my lover, let us go forth to the fields	12 let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
13 Let us go early to the vineyards, and see	13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
14 The mandrakes give forth fragrance,