Translations
Modern
How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
Traditional
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Literal
How beautiful and how pleasant, O my love, in your delights!
Latin
Quam pulchra es, et quam decora, carissima, in deliciis!
Original
Hebrew
English
How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
Notes
Mount Carmel is a tall mountain range on the Mediterranean coast.
the hair of your head like purple threads: Purple was expensive to make, so only royalty used it.
The young women of Jerusalem talk with the man, leading him to describe the woman's beauty and express his wish to hold her (see study note on Song of Solomon 4:1–5:1).
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