1. Bride to Groom: Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?
2. I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother's house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates.
3. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
4. Groom to Chorus: I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.
5. Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?
6. Groom to Bride: Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.
7. Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames.
8. A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing.
9. Chorus: Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon?
10. If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.
11. Bride to Chorus: I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, since, in his presence, I have become like one who has discovered peace.