1 I am only a wild flower in Sharon,a lily in a mountain valley.
2 Like a lily among thornsis my darling among women.
3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest,so is my dearest compared with other men.I love to sit in its shadow,and its fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to his banqueting halland raised the banner of love over me.
5 Restore my strength with raisinsand refresh me with apples!I am weak from passion.
6 His left-hand is under my head,and his right-hand caresses me.
7 Promise me, women of Jerusalem;swear by the swift deer and the gazellesthat you will not interrupt our love.
8 I hear my lover's voice.He comes running over the mountains,racing across the hills to me.
9 My lover is like a gazelle,like a young stag.There he stands beside the wall.He looks in through the windowand glances through the lattice.
10 My lover speaks to me.Come then, my love;my darling, come with me.
11 The winter is over; the rains have stopped;
12 in the countryside the flowers are in bloom.This is the time for singing;the song of doves is heard in the fields.
13 Figs are beginning to ripen;the air is fragrant with blossoming vines.Come then, my love;my darling, come with me.
14 You are like a dove that hidesin the crevice of a rock.Let me see your lovely faceand hear your enchanting voice.
15 Catch the foxes, the little foxes,before they ruin our vineyard in bloom.
16 My lover is mine, and I am his.He feeds his flock among the lilies
17 until the morning breezes blowand the darkness disappears.Return, my darling, like a gazelle,like a stag on the mountains of Bether.