• 1. ¶ I AM like the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley.
  • 2. Like the lilies among thorns, so is my beloved among the daughters.
  • 3. ¶ Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • 4. He brought me to the banqueting house, and assigned as my portion love.
  • 5. Sustain me with delicacies, surround me with apples; for I am sick for love.
  • 6. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.
  • 7. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, or by young roes of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love until it please.
  • 8. ¶ The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
  • 9. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young roe; behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks through the windows, bending himself over the lattice.
  • 10. My beloved spoke and said to me, Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
  • 11. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
  • 12. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of pruning has come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land;
  • 13. The fig tree puts forth its green figs, and the vines with tender shoots give fragrance. Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come away.
  • 14. ¶ O my dove, who nests in the clefts of the rock and in the secret places of the hedge, let me see your countenance, let me hear your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is comely.
  • 15. Let us catch the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vines have tender shoots.
  • 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his; he feeds among the lilies.
  • 17. Until the day cools and the shadows flee away, turn my beloved and be like a gazelle or a young hart upon the fragrant mountains.