The Koine Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my neighbor; behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves apart from your silence; your hair is like flocks of goats, which have been uncovered from Gilead.

Your teeth are like flocks of shorn sheep that have come up from the bath, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them.

Like a scarlet cord are your lips, and your speech is beautiful; like a slice of pomegranate is your cheek, apart from your silence.

Your neck is like the tower of David, built for the hanging of a thousand shields upon it, all the quivers of the mighty.

Your two breasts are like two young twin gazelles that feed among the lilies

Until the day breathe through and the shadows move, I will go for myself to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of Lebanon.

You are all beautiful, my neighbor, and there is no blemish in you.

Come from Lebanon, bride, come from Lebanon; you shall come and pass through from the head of faith, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards

You have ravished our hearts, my sister, bride; you have ravished our hearts with one from your eyes, with one ornament of your necks.

How beautiful are your breasts, my sister, bride; how beautiful are your breasts, more than wine, and the fragrance of your garments above all perfumes

Your lips drip honeycomb, bride; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Your shoots are a paradise of pomegranates with fruit of choice fruits, henna with nard.

nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon, myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices

A fountain of gardens, a well of living water and flowing from Lebanon

Awake, north wind, and come, south; breathe through my garden, and let my aromas flow. Let my beloved come down into his garden and eat the fruit of his choice fruits.