15. So I’ve come out to meet you, to seek your presence eagerly— and I found you!
16. I have spread my couch with tapestry of dyed Egyptian linens.
17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. Come, let’s drink our fill of love till morning! Let’s delight ourselves with love.
19. For my husband is not at home— he’s gone on a long journey.
20. He took a bag of money with him— he won’t come home until full moon.”
21. With her persistent pleading she entices him, with smooth talk she seduces him.
22. Suddenly he follows her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a stag bounding toward a trap,