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Your valley,[a] a round bowl
    that should never lack mixed wine.
Your belly, a mound of wheat,
    encircled with lilies.
(A)Your breasts are like two fawns,
    twins of a gazelle.
(B)Your neck like a tower of ivory;
    your eyes, pools in Heshbon
    by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose like the tower of Lebanon
    that looks toward Damascus.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 7:3 Valley: lit., navel; a discreet allusion to her sex.
  2. 7:5 The comparison emphasizes the stateliness of her neck, and the clarity of her eyes. Bath-rabbim: a proper name which occurs only here; there was a city of Rabbah northeast of Heshbon in Transjordan. Cf. Jer 49:3.