9 ⌊How is your beloved better than another lover
⌋,
* O most beautiful among women?
⌊How is your beloved better than another lover
⌋,
* that you adjure us thus?
10 My beloved
is radiant and
⌊ruddy
⌋,
* distinguished
⌊among
⌋* ten thousand.
11 His head
is gold, refined gold; his locks
are wavy, black as a raven.
12 His eyes
are like doves beside springs
* of water, bathed in milk,
⌊set like mounted jewels
⌋.
**
13 His cheeks
are like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips
are lilies dripping liquid myrrh.
14 His arms
are ⌊rods
⌋** of gold
⌊engraved with
⌋* jewels; his belly
* is polished ivory covered with sapphires.
*
15 His legs
are columns of alabaster,
* set on bases of gold; his appearance
is like Lebanon, choice as
⌊its cedars
⌋.
*
16 ⌊His mouth
⌋* is sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This
is my beloved; this
is my friend,
⌊O young women of Jerusalem
⌋.
*