SONG OF SOLOMON
CHAPTER 6

Friends
¹ Where has your lover gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way did your lover turn,
that we may look for him with you?

Beloved
² My lover has gone down to his garden,
to the beds of spices,
to browse in the gardens
and to gather lilies.
³ I am my lover's and my lover is mine;
he browses among the lilies.

Lover
⁴ You are beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem,
majestic as troops with banners.
⁵ Turn your eyes from me;
they overwhelm me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
descending from Gilead.
⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin,
not one of them is alone.
⁷ Your temples behind your veil
are like the halves of a pomegranate.
⁸ Sixty queens there may be,
and eighty concubines,
and virgins beyond number;
⁹ but my dove, my perfect one, is unique,
the only daughter of her mother,
the favorite of the one who bore her.
The maidens saw her and called her blessed;
the queens and concubines praised her.

Friends
¹⁰ Who is this that appears like the dawn,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
majestic as the stars in procession?

Lover
¹¹ I went down to the grove of nut trees
to look at the new growth in the valley,
to see if the vines had budded
or the pomegranates were in bloom.
¹² Before I realized it,
my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people. ^[1]

Friends
¹³ Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
come back, come back, that we may gaze on you!

Lover
Why would you gaze on the Shulammite
as on the dance of Mahanaim?

Footnotes

1. 6:12 Or among the chariots of Amminadab ; or among the chariots of the people of the prince

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