17. I’ve sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.Let’s enjoy making love,
19. because my husband’s not home.He has gone on a long trip.
20. He took lots of money with him.He won’t be home for a couple of weeks.”
21. With all her seductive charms, she persuades him.With her smooth lips, she makes him give in.
22. He immediately follows herlike a steer on its way to be slaughtered,like a ram hobbling into captivity