17 But the eyes of Leʹah had no luster,* whereas Rachel+ had become beautiful in form and beautiful of countenance.+

4 “Look! You are beautiful,+ O girl companion of mine. Look! You are beautiful. Your eyes are [those of] doves,+ behind your veil.+ Your hair is like a drove of goats+ that have hopped down from the mountainous region of Gilʹe·ad.+

2 “I am asleep, but my heart is awake.+ There is the sound of my dear one knocking!”+

“Open to me,+ O my sister, my girl companion, my dove, my blameless+ one! For my head is filled with dew, the locks of my hair with the drops of the night.”+