1How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 2Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.7.2 liquor: Heb. mixture 3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. 4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. 5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.7.5 Carmel: or, crimson7.5 held: Heb. bound 6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; 9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.7.9 sweetly: Heb. straightly7.9 of those…: or, of the ancient
10¶ I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. 11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.7.12 appear: Heb. open 13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
1Wo nan ne mpaboa yɛ fɛ,
Ao, ɔdehyeɛ babaa!
Wʼanantuo a wogyina so te sɛ abohemaa,
odwumfoɔ nsa ano adwuma.
2Wo funuma yɛ kuruwa a ɛnni nsa
a nsã pa wɔ mu ɛberɛ biara.
Wo sisi yɛ atokoɔ a wɔaboa ano
na sukooko atwa ho ahyia.
3Wo nufu te sɛ aforoteɛ mma mmienu,
adabɔ mma ntafoɔ.
4Wo kɔn te sɛ asonse abantenten.
Wʼaniwa aba te sɛ Hesbon ntadeɛ
a ɛwɔ Bat Rabim ɛpono nkyɛn.
Wo hwene te sɛ Lebanon abantenten
a ɛkyerɛ Damasko no.
5Wo tiri si so sɛ Karmel Bepɔ.
Wo tirinwi te sɛ adehyetoma a wɔadi mu adwinneɛ;
wo tirinwi tentene no dwomfa ɔhene.
6Wo ho yɛ fɛ, Ao ɔdɔ,
wo ho anikadeɛ ma wo ho yɛ ahomeka.
7Wo siberɛ te sɛ abɛ dua,
na wo nufu te sɛ aduaba siaka.
8Mekaa sɛ, “Mɛforo abɛ dua no;
na masɔ nʼaba mu.”
Wo nufu nyɛ sɛ bobe siaka,
na wo homeɛ mu hwa nyɛ sɛ aprɛ.
9Na wʼanomu hwa nyɛ sɛ bobesa papa.
Ababaawa:
Ma bobesa no nkɔ me dɔfoɔ hɔ tee,
ɛntene mfa nʼanofafa ne ne se no so brɛoo.
10Meyɛ me dɔfoɔ dea,
na nʼapɛdeɛ ne me.
11Bra, me dɔfoɔ; ma yɛnkɔ nkuraase,
ma yɛnkɔda nkuraase anadwo baako.
12Ma yɛnkɔ bobefuo mu ntɛm
nkɔhwɛ sɛ bobe no agu nhyerɛnne,
sɛ nhyerɛnne no apaapae,
anaasɛ ateaa no ayɛ frɔmm.
Ɛhɔ na mede me dɔ bɛma wo.
13Adasoa yi ne hwa,
na akɔnnɔduane nyinaa bɛgu yɛn ɛpono ano,
foforɔ ne dada,
a mede asie ama woɔ, me dɔfoɔ.
