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Your lips are like a scarlet thread
    and your speech is lovely.
Your temple is like a slice of pomegranate
    behind your veil.
Like the tower of David is your neck,
    built for weapons.
A thousand shields are hung on it
    —all shields of warriors.
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    like twin gazelles
    grazing among the lilies.

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Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
    your mouth(A) is lovely.(B)
Your temples behind your veil
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(C)
Your neck is like the tower(D) of David,
    built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(E)
    all of them shields of warriors.
Your breasts(F) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle(G)
    that browse among the lilies.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.