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Admiration by the Bridegroom
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Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look on you. What will you see in the Shulammite? As it were a dance of two companies.
| E | ShUBI | ShUBI | AShULMITh | ShUBI | ShUBI | UNChZA- | BK
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| | ? | ? | the·? | ? | ? | and·we·? | in·as
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| | MA- | ThChZU | BShULMITh | KMChLTh | AMChNIM
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| | from·the | ? | in·? | as·from·? | the·from·?
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2
How beautiful are your steps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of your thighs are like the links of a chain, the work of the hands of a skilled workman.
| B | MA- | IFU | FOMIK | BNOLIM | BTh- | NDIB
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| | from·the | he-will·? | ? | in·we·? | in·she-will | we·?
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| | ChMUQI | IRKIK | KMU | ChLEIM | MOShA
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| | ? | he-will·? | as·from·and | ? | from·make
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| | IDI | EMN
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| | he-will·? | I-will·from
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3
Your navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting; your belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
| G | ShRRK | EGN | ASAR | EL- | IChSR | AMZG
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| | ? | I-will·garden | the·? | this | he-will·? | the·from·?
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| | BTNK | ORMTh | ChTIM | SUGA | BShUShNIM
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| | in·? | ? | ? | ? | in·?
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4
Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.
| D | ShNI | ShDIK | KShNI | OFRIM | ThEMI | TsBIA
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| | two | ? | as·two | ? | ? | ?
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5
Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes as the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
| A | TsUERK | KMGDL | AShN | OINIK | BRKUTh | BChShBUN | OL-
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| | ? | as·from·great | the·? | ? | in·? | in·? | on
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| | ShOR | BTh- | RBIM | EFK | KMGDL
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| | ? | in·she-will | ? | I-will·? | as·from·great
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| | ALBNUN | TsUFA | FNI | DMShQ
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| | the·to·in·we·and·we | ? | face | ?
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6
Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.
| U | REShK | OLIK | KKRML | UDLTh | REShK | KERGMN | MLK
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| | ? | ? | as·as·? | and·? | ? | as·I-will·? | from·to·as
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| | ESUR | BRATIM
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| | I-will·? | in·?
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7
How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights!
| Z | MA- | IFITh | UMA- | NOMTh
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| | from·the | he-will·? | and·from·the | we·?
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| | EABA | BThONUGIM
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| | I-will·the·in·the | in·?
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8
This your stature is like to a palm-tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
| Ch | ZETh | QUMThK | DMThA | LThMR | UShDIK | LEShKLUTh
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| | ? | ? | ? | to·? | and·? | to·I-will·?
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9
I said: 'I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof; and let your breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your countenance like apples;
| T | EMRThI | EOLA | BThMR | EChZA | BSNSNIU
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| | I-will·from·? | I-will·ascend | in·? | I-will·? | in·?
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| | UIAIU- | NE | ShDIK | KEShKLUTh | AGFN
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| | and·he-will·be | we·I-will | ? | as·I-will·? | the·?
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| | URICh | EFK | KThFUChIM
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| | and·? | I-will·? | as·?
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10
The roof of your mouth like the best wine, that glides down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.'
| I | UChKK | KIIN | ATUB | AULK
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| | and·? | as·he-will·he-will·we | the·good | the·and·to·as
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| | LDUDI | LMIShRIM | DUBB | ShFThI | IShNIM
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| | to·? | to·from·he-will·? | ? | ? | he-will·years
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11
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
| IE | ENI | LDUDI | UOLI | ThShUQThU
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| | I | to·? | and·? | ?
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12
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
| IB | LKA | DUDI | NTsE | AShDA | NLINA
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| | to·as·the | ? | we·? | the·field | we·to·he-will·we·the
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13
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded, whether the vine-blossom be opened, and the pomegranates be in flower; there will I give you my love.
| IG | NShKIMA | LKRMIM | NREA | EM- | FRChA | AGFN | FThCh
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| | we·? | to·as·? | we·? | I-will·from | ? | the·? | ?
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| | ASMDR | ANTsU | ARMUNIM | ShM | EThN | ETh- | DDI | LK
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| | the·? | the·we·? | the·? | name | I-will·? | the | ? | to·as
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14
The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
| ID | ADUDEIM | NThNU- | RICh | UOL- | FThChINU | KL- | MGDIM | ChDShIM
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| | the·? | we·? | ? | and·on | ? | all | from·? | ?
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| | GM- | IShNIM | DUDI | TsFNThI | LK
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| | ? | he-will·years | ? | ? | to·as
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