17 I’ve perfumed my bedwith myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning. Let’s feast on each other’s love!
19 My husband isn’t home;he went on a long journey.
20 He took a bag of money with himand will come home at the time of the full moon.”
21 She seduces him with her persistent pleading;she lures with her flattering talk.
22 He follows her impulsivelylike an ox going to the slaughter,like a deer bounding toward a trap
23 until an arrow pierces its liver, like a bird darting into a snare —he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.